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bi22le

posted on 12/7/19 at 11:59 PM Reply With Quote
Shockingly clean gearbox oil?!?

I have owned my car 10 years and it has stood still for 3, I have never changed the gearbox oil. I'm recommissioning it at the moment and went to drain the oil. I undid the fill plug of the type 9 with kit to suck out the oil and it looked new, crystal clean. I'm shocked. Do you think all of the crud and contamination have sunk to the bottom? The clean observed stuff trickled out of the filler, I have not pulled anything from the bottom yet.

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adithorp

posted on 13/7/19 at 05:17 AM Reply With Quote
Gearbox oil rarely looks dirty even in high milage vehicles.





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CosKev3

posted on 13/7/19 at 07:57 AM Reply With Quote
As above,rarely gets dirty unless you've had a major failure in the box or a woman's been grinding the gears constantly!
VAG state gearbox oils are 'life long' oil on manual cars,I dropped mine to see how it looked after 130k miles and it was only a slightly darker shade than the new oil I put in.

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bi22le

posted on 13/7/19 at 08:15 AM Reply With Quote
So should I change it?





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adithorp

posted on 13/7/19 at 08:19 AM Reply With Quote
It doesn't get dirty because it's not subject to things like combustion gases. It does however deteriorate due to the pressures applied to it. So yes it will benefit from being changed.





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r1_pete

posted on 13/7/19 at 08:41 AM Reply With Quote
For the relatively low cost involved new oil is worth it, the old stuff will have deteriorated.
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perksy

posted on 13/7/19 at 09:00 AM Reply With Quote
Definitely change it, You might even find that it changes gear a bit sweeter when the engine is hot after a long run or track use
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snapper

posted on 13/7/19 at 12:37 PM Reply With Quote
CosKev3
“or a woman's been grinding the gears constantly!”

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CosKev3

posted on 13/7/19 at 01:05 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by snapper
CosKev3
“or a woman's been grinding the gears constantly!”

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bi22le

posted on 13/7/19 at 05:34 PM Reply With Quote
Good advice and one to log for the LCB knowledge base. The oil at the top was clear due to inactivity. Once I put my vacuum pipe in and started to draw out oil it's alot darker.





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