We hit 1000 miles in our new Jetta quickly, and since this was a long weekend, today was the perfect day to change the oil.
The oil change procedure is quite easy on the 1.4 TSI. The worst part was removing the under body access panel which was very simple honestly, it’s just one more step. The panel is held up using Torx screws which I much prefer to the silly T tabs that my Honda uses which break all the time. The drain plug and oil filter were easily accessible once you get the panel off.
I used the OEM VW/Audi 508.00 0w20 oil and OEM German made oil filter Which I purchased from our VW dealer. Pricing was similar to what I paid for the Castrol 0w40 502.00 that I used in our previous Jetta so no worries there.
Once the factory fill was drained I looked at it in the pan under direct sunlight and to my surprise there were very few metal flakes in the oil. In fact, my Accord typically has more metal flakes in the oil than this factory fill did. Though this fill was only ran to 1000 miles. So that was a welcome surprise.
Now that we are out of the official break in period (1000 miles) we can drive it “normally”. This little motor really impresses. Getting up to speed is no issue whatsoever. We hope to have a good service life out of it. Oil changes moving forward will be 5000 miles max and will include a new oil filter with each change.
The oil change procedure is quite easy on the 1.4 TSI. The worst part was removing the under body access panel which was very simple honestly, it’s just one more step. The panel is held up using Torx screws which I much prefer to the silly T tabs that my Honda uses which break all the time. The drain plug and oil filter were easily accessible once you get the panel off.
I used the OEM VW/Audi 508.00 0w20 oil and OEM German made oil filter Which I purchased from our VW dealer. Pricing was similar to what I paid for the Castrol 0w40 502.00 that I used in our previous Jetta so no worries there.
Once the factory fill was drained I looked at it in the pan under direct sunlight and to my surprise there were very few metal flakes in the oil. In fact, my Accord typically has more metal flakes in the oil than this factory fill did. Though this fill was only ran to 1000 miles. So that was a welcome surprise.
Now that we are out of the official break in period (1000 miles) we can drive it “normally”. This little motor really impresses. Getting up to speed is no issue whatsoever. We hope to have a good service life out of it. Oil changes moving forward will be 5000 miles max and will include a new oil filter with each change.
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