Volkswagen parts reviews

Been using Mobil1 5W-30 since 1998... GTI now has 232,500 miles and is smooth as silk. I do oil changes on the dot at 5K miles.

I just put the CC2’s on my 18 GSW 4motion. I couldn’t be more pleased! Performance on wet road- exceptional. Snow- not quite as good as a dedicated snow tire, but damn close. I’ve rallied up the canyon to Alta on snow packed days, not once did they get squirrelly.

Replaced the NGK Iridium spark plugs, MANN engine filter and cabin air filter a week after getting the car and was easing it with E85 and fuel cleaners before that as the owner told me it was sitting around for a year. Very happy with its idle noise and freeway speeds (in Mexico of course).

I happen to use Castrol in all my gasoline powered vehicles and have had no oil related issues. Given that VW promoted Castrol and, more importantly, that I prefer Castrol in general, I’m staying with Castrol when I can... I've had no oil loss in the Tig with Castrol and see no reason to switch to a different brand just because some MBAhole behind a desk made a profit driven decision to switch suppliers.

Brakes are too small and while not a safety issue per se, they do tend to warp due to heat. I had to replace my front brakes every 12-20k miles initially. Went to slotted/drilled rotors that got me ~40k miles. Finally "upgraded" to the 2013+ brakes which solved the problem for good.

Buy a set of Osram night breakers for your fogs. My CC has HID and I bought these H7 for my corner lights [emoji6], D1S night breakers for the lows/highs and H11 night breakers for the fogs. I can see again.

Well, after a lot of troubleshooting, I have finally found the answer to my problem. This is apparently well known among the 8-valve PD diesels, and is known as head lift, aka loose or stretched cylinder head bolts. I got a tip that I ought to look into this, so I pulled the valve cover and boy, the bolts were pretty loose. I tightened them up, and now the heat/no heat issues has dissapeared.

I've had good luck with Conti Pro Contacts in the past and am currently running the Conti Pure Contact. Also had a good experience with Pirelli P7 on a past vehicle.

Do both. The stock rotors are pretty garbage and cover your car in iron anyways.

A friend had a rebuilt bosch unit that he lent me to try and that too doesn't put out any voltage.