eurotom

Art very nice - brake fluid flushes, water deionizers, oil changes, can you weld my coolant lines for me next weekend?

aa909

I've never used a welder but honestly how hard can it be? Let's drink some beers and fire up that baby.

eurotom

Buy a tig welder I'm good with aluminum and beer.

me9394

would it make sense to go with M1 5W50 or 10W60?

jhbrennan

No.

Ibanezgod

Found this great vid


Btw anyone recommend a cheap Oil cap wrench? Believe we need a 74mm correct? Or do i have to order the actual part number 000 721 920 40?

I hear some people putting 5W-40 in their turbo. Not sure i'm ok with that, anyone else try?

ilko

Got an oil cap wrench at my local auto parts store years ago. Works great on all of my water-cooled German cars over the years.

5W-40 is fine. The M1 5W-40 TDT has a little extra ZDDP which is good for the Mezger. I ran that in my turbo and now run it in the GT3.

heliflyer

Not wanting to start another oil thread here but.... Joe Gibbs DT40 is pretty good and will look after your engine.

Rogor

Might add two things:
-1. If you use a bucket in which you can measure the oil that comes out, you known how much oil you have to put back in.
-2. In the video, the mechanic puts in a new dry oil filter. We always fill the new oilfilter with as much oil as possible. So we put in a wet oil filter.

drdrank

Hard to add much value here on top of the great DIY guides.

First oil change was a fun experience. No amount of warning can prepare a virgin for the gush.

I used a paint can opener to get the o-ring off the filter cap. Worked very well and seemed to be better than using a screw driver.

cam2008

To prevent the major deluge of oil draining, I used a really wide mouth funnel from Walmart and I used a coffee can with both ends cut off with 1inch dia punch out holes at one end of the can. About six holes, put can in drain pan and funnel in the top of the can it acts like a manifold.

Worked great!

cam2008

I think the pan he used was too small, I think the oil overflowed over the floor!!!

Ibanezgod

btw did an oil change last night, probably the easiest car I've ever changed oil on. However it did get messy with two oil plugs to drain. The video above is spot on.

My question is that I thought the car took 8 quarts of oil. Mine reads that i'm low and need a 9th quart of oil, but I don't want to overfill. Online I read the spec is 10.5 quarts, the video stated 8 quarts, and the link above doesn't list any quarts. I know I need to check the book, however wanted to ask the forum what everyone generally used for the oil change.

Again, I can't imagine paying $300 to have someone do this. Cost me $150: oil, 27mm wrench, oil filter, and oil cap opener. Next time just the filter and oil

saabin

I usually put in about 8.5 to 8.75 qts.

HardHitter

I did my oil change too and agree, very very easy. Did you replace the washers/o-rings as well?

I did the same thing where I put in 8 and it showed that I wasn't full. I added in another .5/.75 bottle and it was good.