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03-12-2015, 06:03 PM
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Sorry, meant to say 2 weeks. Not that the part will be done by then but that we should know more about the rendering/solidworks modeling efforts around then. The prototype lead time is probably best measured in months still realistically.
03-24-2015, 12:19 PM
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Update: Original scan shop quote ballooned after part delivery by nearly 10 fold. No room in my hobby budget for that kind of increase so parts are on the way back to me.
Plan b is only a few weeks longer and has controlled cost quotes that are far more predictable. Let's hope there isn't a need for a plan c.
Plan b is only a few weeks longer and has controlled cost quotes that are far more predictable. Let's hope there isn't a need for a plan c.
03-27-2015, 05:56 PM
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life in VAG moment #78669
well.... wouldn't you know I rented a Jetta in Phoenix and been driving it normal in LA basin traffic about a week now.....
haven't exceeded the speed limit or anything. quite the contrary.
checked the oil at the Airport. it was fine.
got about 700 miles on her now....
well, she needed almost a quart this morning.
if you do this on your own VW or Audi, you void the warranty.
Gentlemen: the car only has 36 k miles.
life in VAG: check oil often.
good bet at least a good bit is just hot vapors being fed into your combustion chamber via the air oil separator.
or take an almost new Golf/GTI/Passat crud to your next DE.
you'd very likely see a similar situation there.
just keep topping off.
my guess is you've got a good ways more to go before the little bastard blows up.
or take an almost new Golf/GTI/Passat crud to your next DE.
you'd very likely see a similar situation there.
just keep topping off.
my guess is you've got a good ways more to go before the little bastard blows up.
well.... wouldn't you know I rented a Jetta in Phoenix and been driving it normal in LA basin traffic about a week now.....
haven't exceeded the speed limit or anything. quite the contrary.
checked the oil at the Airport. it was fine.
got about 700 miles on her now....
well, she needed almost a quart this morning.
if you do this on your own VW or Audi, you void the warranty.
Gentlemen: the car only has 36 k miles.
life in VAG: check oil often.
03-27-2015, 07:04 PM
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life in VAG moment #78669
well.... wouldn't you know I rented a Jetta in Phoenix and been driving it normal in LA basin traffic about a week now.....
haven't exceeded the speed limit or anything. quite the contrary.
checked the oil at the Airport. it was fine.
got about 700 miles on her now....
well, she needed almost a quart this morning.
if you do this on your own VW or Audi, you void the warranty.
Gentlemen: the car only has 36 k miles.
life in VAG: check oil often.
well.... wouldn't you know I rented a Jetta in Phoenix and been driving it normal in LA basin traffic about a week now.....
haven't exceeded the speed limit or anything. quite the contrary.
checked the oil at the Airport. it was fine.
got about 700 miles on her now....
well, she needed almost a quart this morning.
if you do this on your own VW or Audi, you void the warranty.
Gentlemen: the car only has 36 k miles.
life in VAG: check oil often.
03-27-2015, 07:20 PM
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of course.
but I love this car and i'm quite happy I got it.
I don't do mud season in New England (its worse than winter)...
so, you see, I'm keeping it until they drag it from my cold dead hands (as in 3 weeks to a month).
and since it's a VW, you're talking about a car having a very good chance it consumes oil.
this one I figure consumes a quart about every 800~1000 miles. no smoke out the back...
it's prolly not passing the rings, but, through the air/oil canister w/ the excess being fed into the combustion chamber.
this is a great car. but it's a ringer for what people post on the Audi and VW forums.....
(where they're told to cruise over to the dealer to have their oil topped off).
but I love this car and i'm quite happy I got it.
I don't do mud season in New England (its worse than winter)...
so, you see, I'm keeping it until they drag it from my cold dead hands (as in 3 weeks to a month).
and since it's a VW, you're talking about a car having a very good chance it consumes oil.
this one I figure consumes a quart about every 800~1000 miles. no smoke out the back...
it's prolly not passing the rings, but, through the air/oil canister w/ the excess being fed into the combustion chamber.
this is a great car. but it's a ringer for what people post on the Audi and VW forums.....
(where they're told to cruise over to the dealer to have their oil topped off).
03-27-2015, 08:48 PM
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of course.
but I love this car and i'm quite happy I got it.
I don't do mud season in New England (its worse than winter)...
so, you see, I'm keeping it until they drag it from my cold dead hands (as in 3 weeks to a month).
and since it's a VW, you're talking about a car having a very good chance it consumes oil.
this one I figure consumes a quart about every 800~1000 miles. no smoke out the back...
it's prolly not passing the rings, but, through the air/oil canister w/ the excess being fed into the combustion chamber.
this is a great car. but it's a ringer for what people post on the Audi and VW forums.....
(where they're told to cruise over to the dealer to have their oil topped off).
but I love this car and i'm quite happy I got it.
I don't do mud season in New England (its worse than winter)...
so, you see, I'm keeping it until they drag it from my cold dead hands (as in 3 weeks to a month).
and since it's a VW, you're talking about a car having a very good chance it consumes oil.
this one I figure consumes a quart about every 800~1000 miles. no smoke out the back...
it's prolly not passing the rings, but, through the air/oil canister w/ the excess being fed into the combustion chamber.
this is a great car. but it's a ringer for what people post on the Audi and VW forums.....
(where they're told to cruise over to the dealer to have their oil topped off).
03-30-2015, 01:36 PM
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Been driving VW for about 20yrs. All different engines... various stages of modification. None consumed enough oil to require a quart inside 3500 miles following break-in.
03-31-2015, 10:53 AM
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03-31-2015, 12:04 PM
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What does a new VAG engine in a rental car have to do with this thread about a 20yo VW engine?
Should we say that you should check your oil in a 944 because of 996 IMS problems? Please take your useless ramblings back to Off Topic odurandina...
Should we say that you should check your oil in a 944 because of 996 IMS problems? Please take your useless ramblings back to Off Topic odurandina...
03-31-2015, 05:51 PM
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I suspect it's relevant due to the subject if the thread (putting a VW engine in a 944). I've observed VWs losing oil spontenously as well. Moral of the story: the desire to swap out the original engine in a 944 may be a case of the grass being greener on the other side. You'll be swapping one set of idiosynchrosies for another along with the engine.
04-01-2015, 01:39 AM
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I've never heard of an oil burning vw as a widespread problem in the 80's or even 90's. Lack of familiarity with the engines I bet. It had always been a Honda Civic joke. "Fill the oil, check the gas."