Fowvay's Yellow 2000 GLX 1.8T

[The Cheat]

/me is about to get his hands on pom's goodies this weekend.

that is all.

[Fowvay]

I'm not bragging heck I'm not even proud what I am is SHOCKED... seriously this tank is kind of creeping me out.

[james123]

Still one of the nicest Yellows around! Love it!

[yelojkt]

Dang Tom that is awesome. I have not had a tank like that in years. Keep us posted I sure wonder if this is going to end in the 400's.

[Fowvay]

65.984

34.88mpg!!! Not bad for a 10 year old car, huh?

[Fowvay]

Originally Posted by yelojkt

Dang Tom that is awesome. I have not had a tank like that in years. Keep us posted I sure wonder if this is going to end in the 400's.

Yellow light came on at 436 miles and I put in 12.5 gallons.

[yelojkt]

Originally Posted by Fowvay

Yellow light came on at 436 miles and I put in 12.5 gallons.

Wow Tom you had another 69.76 miles that you could have gone on the 2 gallons left. That would have put you at just over 505 miles.

[Fowvay]

Originally Posted by yelojkt

Wow Tom you had another 69.76 miles that you could have gone on the 2 gallons left. That would have put you at just over 505 miles.

Don't think I wasn't doing that math in my head but knowing my luck I'd have run it dry and killed the fuel pump or something stupid.

[Fowvay]

66,400

A quick thank you to Growler for coming to the rescue once again and fixing up my Pomelo. He installed the timing belt and replaced my oil pan last Friday.

Thanks for the excellent work, buddy. :hug:

This completes phase 3.

Phase 4 can wait til spring.

[yelojkt]

What happened that required the oil pan needing replaced?

[Fowvay]

490.1 / 13.573 = 36.1mpg!!!

[Growler]

Originally Posted by yelojkt

What happened that required the oil pan needing replaced?

after changing his timing belt, he asked me to also change his oil while I had the car jacked up on stands.

took out the drain plug, changed the filter, went to screw in the drain plug... it "buttered" and never got tight.

I pulled it out, and only saw one hint of what was to come...

one tiny sliver of a thread coil on the very end of the plug.

I then stick my pinky finger into the drain hole.. and out comes EVERY SINGLE THREAD... someone before me (do not know who, doesn't matter) managed to strip the threads on his oil pan to within about 5 ft-lb of the end of their life.

Of course Tom has the one or two year only, New beetle only APH 1.8t motor... $205 My cost dealership visit later.. he has a new pan, cap for the oil sensor hole, gasket for turbo oil drain, and hardware for the sensor cap.

I would say he is VERY lucky my dealership had such a unique pan on the shelf. considering they don't find it useful to stock the one time use bolts for timing belt jobs.

Anyways, it looks like with his recent posts, Tom is quite happy with the state of his car.

Enjoy buddy! thats TDI Automatic mileage there.

[raymondlee]

holy maxed out speedo batman!!!!! Geez man. My beetle needs to park next to yours so they can talk to each other. Maybe some of that will run off on him!!!lol

Nice Beetle by the way



ps. ill take some of that too.

[Fowvay]

Originally Posted by Growler

Enjoy buddy! thats TDI Automatic mileage there.

I think Pomelo is finally broken in... only took 65000 miles

btw... I can't thank you enough for all your hard work. You're a saint.

[MiG]

Great thread!
It was a pleasure reading!
Great Stuff!