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Another VAG diesel oil filter that must have been in bypass, engine ran without issue. 70 something thousand on the clock but no real idea how long this filter was in service. Tech who changed it said that the filter housing was very tight but that the oil did not appear sludged. The filter...

Your usage situation is ideal for oil life and low engine wear. The OP’s is not.

So you will be looking to still have the vehicle after the extended warranty expires, this is important for the maintenance plan. The fact that the engine oil won’t get to temp during the majority of the trips would give me concern around fuel oil dilution, it may be worth doing some samples...

How long is your extended warranty? What’s your estimated annual mileage? How long do you plan on keeping the Q5? Does your oil get to 90 degrees c on most journeys or are you a short trip driver? I personally wouldn’t bother with the BG stuff, save the money and find a euro shop that has a...

Price on something like is, they want as much as they can get and the buyer needs to bid them down after assessing the vehicles worth. If someone who’s uneducated about cars buys it thinking it’s a simple fix then that’s on them, people like that should buy approved cars with warranty. As for...

Yeah, and that’s because it’s not been prepped, hence the lower than market value price. It’s not being sold as ready to go/ drive it’s sold as is and by the sounds of it it’s fairly obvious why the cars not been prepped.

It’s because they are selling it un-prepped. It hasn’t been through their workshop so they do know know if it is road worthy. They are essentially selling it as a trade vehicle, if you but a vehicle from an auction you don’t get to road test it first.

In my opinion your looking at it wrong, if you have a $12,000 truck that you have already paid for, that needs a transmission it’s not going to be worth much, so you have no equity in that vehicle, so you can fix it for $7500 or buy another for $12000 that the transmission might then need...

RE post 24, looking back, i think those are actually pics from a 3.0 N57, the ones i should have posted that are from a VAG ea288 are these, not sure if I have posted these before, let me know!

Here’s a VR6 under valve cover pick for you, again car had no service records.

Yes I do, that car was way out of warranty, came in running fine the filters from a diesel A3 with the ea288 engine, unknown mileage on the filter but car had about 90,000 miles. It is shocking what some people do to their cars. And this isn’t the first I’ve seen, I posted pics a while back of...

One I recently changed at work. Engine ran fine amazingly enough.

I know some of VAG’s training vehicles go back into the used car network once the training centre has finished with them, but its specific vehicles that they know from the start are going to only be kept a few years for training. They would never be sold as new though and go through a very...

Stay away from anything from VAG because, 1, software issues- the group doesn’t seem able to get on top of its constant software problems to the point that issues fixed on a precious model year come back on the next model year because they have changed something again. It’s non stop across all...

How did the trip go? Was the oil you provided enough?