LurkerMike
Veteran Member
How much metal do you have on the magnet?SccotBomb said:Well, because your nutz, and you waste your money on changing your tranny oil way to often, Doesn't mean my tranny is any other condition then yours.
BTW, I used the ATF too.
How thick are the sediments in your pan?
When you cut the used filter open and inspect the media, how clogged is it? How many metal bits were captured, or is the "mud" from the paper too thick to see the metal bits?
Eh, if I was REALLY into it, I would do a UOI on the ATF. But the paper particles and metal bits would be through the roof while my fluid would report nearly as robust as brand new out of the bottle with almost no oxidation, acids formation or breakdown in lubricity or viscosity. So what would the point be?
For those that believe in the (short)lifetime fill, please do a UOI at say 50k miles and another at say 100k miles and tell me how the ATF is holding up? I can tell you now, it will show that it isn't. Now go add a few mild performance mods like nozzles and a tune and beat on the car and tell me why your 01M burns up one summer.
Let me make this clear... this is the Performance section. VW does NOT approve any tunes or nozzles other than the OEM VW ones. (Short)lifetime fill may be fine for a stock TDI 01M driven by grandpa. But it is bad advise for anyone consistently applying about 150% of the power levels the 01M was designed to handle and the 01M's recommended maintenance schedule was designed to cover.