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Big fan of engine breaking... In my 03 GLI I ended up selling her at 160,000...replaced rear brake pads once, and never the fronts... Clutch was still tight and never any problems.

Engine braking is how I got 60k miles out of the original brake rotors and pads on my '07 GTI as well as a steady 30 mpg while barely trying.

I've been using these docs for a while now, and am incredibly grateful for you sharing them. With that said, I just noticed something that's news to me. Both the \"Revised Oil Capacity Job Aid\" and the 2012 vs 2013 fluid capacity charts show a 1 qt decrease in engine oil capacity between 2012 and 2013 MY. I've always heard there were insignificant, minor changes between the model years. I've been putting 5ish into my 2012 and it's always been full according to the dipstick.

I changed the fuel filter, oops, that was a mess, but once I got all the air out of the system it's running great again.

Doing a head gasket is easy. Only a few special tools are needed depending on the type of head bolt that is being used. Head Bolts are not re-usable in these beasties you have to buy new.

stock mk4 brakes will clear

I've had 3 issues with the car: 3. recently - replace alternator (the car just knows I'm about to retire it).

VW found a problem with the throttle body and replaced that under a California emissions warranty, and I also did a trans flush. It shifts a lot better now, but still some weird shifts esp. between 2-3 and 6-5.

I have a 2008 1.4 TSI Tiguan bought from South African VW dealer, full dealer servicing too. Have had the coils replaced 7 times( kept burning out) spark plugs 4 times ( kept burning out too) and variouse other faults giving a total of 13 returns under warranty. The vehicle is now out of warranty with 139000 Km's (86000 miles) and the timing chain has failed bending valves etc. The vehicle took 3 weeks to repair and I had to pay R31000 ($2600 us) had a meeting with VWSA who say its normal wear and tear would not assist and didn't even apologies .

Then I hear a squeal in the water pump and a few days later it dies a silent steamy death.