Ive found out the car has to be off the ground as u need to accelerate enough to get it to 6th gear, which I think is around 50-60kmph.
Im not going to try this with anything less than a proper hoist. so the project is on hold for now.
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Ive found out the car has to be off the ground as u need to accelerate enough to get it to 6th gear, which I think is around 50-60kmph.
Im not going to try this with anything less than a proper hoist. so the project is on hold for now.
The instructions don't say to run it through to 6th gear. It says:
Which means put it in P, R, N, D, S, L -+. Whatever positions are available. You would do this with any auto trans service.Quote:
shift into each selector lever position and hold it for about 3 seconds.
Interesting the septics are being quote half what we are but our $ is only 10% below theirs. It seems we never recovered from when we were .45c=1USD
Haha, goes to show how much VW know, I asked a 'technician' and he said you need to raise it up on the hoist and accelerate to get to 6th gear.
Now I know I can do just as good as a job.
I reccommend that you DO NOT do this service yourself if you think that you have to accellerate through each gear up to 6th.
No where in the instructions for the service does it mention this.
In fact it states that with your foot on the brake you move the gear selector lever through each postition then back to park.
If you have interpretited this as accellerating in each gear then the service is not going to work out too well for you and i advise that you do not open the bonnet.
I didnt interpt anything, VW told me this. anyway we all know what we read, doesnt make us stupid, just misdirected, as long as we get the translation right then its aall goood!
The link I posted to the steps are exactly the same as this link which has diagrams that looks to be from the manu manual
http://www.mkv-gti.net/wiki/index.ph...ansmission_oil
Its easy, remove the air filter box to get to the dsg filter, remove the filter housing, remove and replace filter within housing, replace seal on filter, replace filter. Remove drain plug over flow stick, drain oil, attach filler nipple, attached hose to nipple and feed other end through engine bay to the top where u connect it to the oil bottles, undo lever fill oil to 5.5l, start engine, plug in ur laptop, monitor the transmission temp, shift through lever selections for 3 seconds each, once reached 35-45c remove hose from nipple undercar, let drain should be 1/2-3/4 l, once it starts to drip put bolt back on stop engine. Easy.
If you can change oil u can change transmission oil, just need the right tools.
DSG gearboxes wouldnt be cheap either.
I reckon if you got it wrong the insurance company would write the car off maybe too. (if they covered you for doing it yourself)
Definately NOT a backyard weekend job.
This topic should be in the humour section!!! :nana:
Andrew :)
just because it involves a laptop u dont need to be scared, it is the year 2008 after all.