Volkswagen parts reviews

eBay came through for me. I located a 140 amp (vs 90) alternator from a shop in L.A. The Bosch rebuilt G60 alternators use good, but not the best bearings. The owner said he'd use a good core, put in the better bearings (SKF) and build one from scratch for me (gratis). He recommended against using the OAD on the pulley.

I always run rotella 15w-40 in my mk3 2.0 8v. No complaints and its cheap

Bilstein Left, Airlift right for MK6. Like I said before, they both have the same drop on my car. I just gained about 3 inches of lift with the Bilstein's, thus making my ride height WAY more comfortable.

They are the Hella 7" outers and 5" inners. While they are newer and offer a clean look I just recently ordered some cross hairs from Germany TMTuning.com Everywhere else I searched for the most part for Inner and outer cross hairs was sold out...

Good quality synth 5w40 alllll dayyy eryyy dayyy. Flip open your owner's manual, 5w40 is the recommended oil. 30 weight thins out too much during extended drive periods or in high temp areas. FWIW the previous owner of my Golf sold it because it was an "oil burner" he was using gas station brand dino 5w30 :screwy: I switched to Motul and then Gulf 5w40, and drove it for 55k+ kms, had to add about 1L between my 10K OCIs.

I found a vac leak at the brake booster line. I fixed it, and now I am getting no codes at all. it says "EVAP OK" The reason I missed the leak at the brake booster line is because it can't be detected with a pressure test because of the check valve. I've driven 35 miles with no codes, so an entire year with a lean code is finally over, I hope!

I like the ride of Bilstein HDs on stock springs. They're stiffer, but in no way uncomfortable.

I used the bigger passat 1.8t filters on my DD 2000 jetta with mobil 1 0w40 for over 100k in 4.5 years (135k total on vehicle) and when that car was totalled in a flood, the motor was tight and flawless...

I usend to run syn 15w50 in my tired old vr6 all year round, it helped with seeping issues, lifter noise and all if that. but the oil pressure would be through the roof during first start. so I'd set aside a few mins in the morning to let the car idle, relax, listen to a song and let it get some heat in it. on a normal day, the star up pressure would be .5 bar past the filter bypass (10 bar), warm idle was 2 and a bit, and everything above 3.5k was back to the bypass.

I went out bought the NGK plugs and installed them moments ago. Reset the codes and started the engine. Within 1 minute I had the CEL and the P0351 - P0354 codes.