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Originally Posted by Fowvay
The Audi TT225 and all New Beetle 1.8Ts have a coolant after run pump. Due to the extremly tight engine compartment it allows the coolant to continue to cool down after shutting off.
While it does draw coolant thru the turbo it does nothing to cool the oil down in it. You still need to idle the car for a minute or two to prevent it from coking.
Now... the battery. This has been a known problem since about 1983. Stock VW batteries are utter crap. They are so bad in fact that VW has had to resort to using solar powered trickle chargers just so that dealers do not have to replace about 15% of the batteries that go dead (during the winter) just from being in transit.
They are appallingly bad. I am stunned, amazed and in shock that my stock battery is now 6 years old, sits for up to 6 weeks at a time with out being started and still passes a load test. I have been waiting for it to die for over 4.5 years now.
I sold my Mom a 1994 Golf during a record cold snap in January of 1994. Her Golf needed jumping just to get off the truck and the replacement battery died on the -21*f morning she took delivery. That third batterly lasted untill March. She then replaced it with an interstate battery that lasted for 9 years and over 200,000+ miles with out seeing a single day in a garage.
Tom aka Fowvay
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Good info.....
I might just get a new battery then since this one might leave me in the dust.....