Fuel filter Bosch or OEM Volkswagen

I’m on my 2nd fuel filter this week, was getting a bit of black smoke out of the exhaust so dumped injector cleaner directly into the old one and revved the stones off it . Big clouds of black smoke! Then changed the fuel filter for a fresh Bosch one and exhaust is back to normal now.

finished running the fuel lines too the rear and mounted the fuel filter housing with a new filter

At 100k miles it is time to replace the fuel filter. It is pretty easy to do, just pay attention to how the hoses release by pushing in at certain spots on the connector to not break them.

go to any auto shop and ask for a fuel filter for a seventies Volkswagen beetle.

For my TDI it's literally just a standard oil change, and then fuel filter every 20k miles. Hardly an additional burden.

VDO is OE and can be got for €120~. Get a fuel filter for €15 from Bosch, part of your maintenance anyway.

Recently, (about 2 weeks ago) I did a new fuel filter, new spark plugs, new plug wires, new distributor rotor and cap.

i did add a dipstick fuel filter looked to be newer, plausible considering the somewhat recent pump and injector service, but figured "while im in there..."

I never had anything suspicious looking in any of my fuel filter changes on our 2012 JSW... always looked perfectly clean. HPFP failed without warning at 91k.

I had a spare, new Bosch fuel filter, so I went ahead and swapped that in just in case the other new filter had issues.