To establish correct level, the transmission oil should be between 35° and 45° with engine running. Doing it without engine running will end up with underfilled gearbox as it dumps what's being circulated by the internal pump. You can get oil temperature by using VCDS or Obdeleven. Car should be level.
We are told you need four and a half litres, so I was surprised to find that there is six litres in the kit I received. When I took the metal drain plug out quite a bit of oil came out before I removed the inner tube. I drained the very dark oil out and found it was four and a quarter litres. I tried filling via the filter method, but it took an eternity for the oil to go in. I found the up the drain hole with a syringe to be much quicker. I got almost exactly four and a half litres in before some started to drain out. Perfect I thought. So I started the car and put it in gear to correct the level, looked under the car to see that more than litre of oil had gushed out into (and around) the catch pan! I quickly turned the car off and found the fault. I had forgotten to fit the filter and cover! The oil had almost exploded out of the open filter container. That extra litre and a half came in very useful indeed. They must have had people like me before. Even though the filter is now in place I'm not sure I feel like starting the car with the drain plug out. dr. sunka (the video maker) suggests that running the engine helps to prevent overfill, but in the comments below, Niel G says not running the engine will mean underfill. These seem to me to contradict each other...
replace the drain TUBE, then the plug before starting the car. get the fluid up to temperature, turn the car off and remove the drain PLUG. any excess will run out at that time. this is the proper way to do it.
Hi Christian, a good question actually. So in this way, if you followed this steps directly, you have now a minimal required oil volume possible in the oilbox. I was driving like that for a year and was totally fine. I think, it is nothing bad, a long as you don't have crazy cold weather. However, ideally you would like to follow this, my follow-up video: ( ua-cam.com/video/lo8kiOxN8zg/v-deo.html ) to get factory level of oil. So you want to close the drain plug before filling oil back. Then you over-fill. Return filter and housing. Then you turn on the car. After some minutes you remove drain plug and wait for excess oil to drip out. When it drips per second you are done, return drain plug.
If you are not sure which method to use, you can also measure the amount of oil drained out (volume of old oil) and just refill the same amount back in, so return plastic tube and drain plug. Then just refill the same amount of new oil.
Just to calm you down a bit.. I did some experiments on this TT. I filled in (intentionally) 0.5 litre less than factory. The shifting was same, no changes at all. I filled 0.2 and 0.5 litre more than factory. Again, there was no changes in shifting at all. So I guess this is quiet robust. As far as I know, the full oil volume of the transmission is approx. 7 liters. Some of it is in the oilbox, and the rest inside the transmission and other DSG modules. So whenever you change the oil, you just practically mix apporx. 3 liters of old and 4 liters of new oil, i.e., you make it half-less "dirty". :D
i have an audi tt mk2 2007 and today i check the services and noticed that i have not changed the transmission oil and im 90,000 km should i change it?
Diego Sepu yes! Every 70,000km at least! Other wise u could damage transmission gear box! I bought the car with 170,000km and the last owner did never changed it! When I did changed it woz 1,5 litre of oil missing! No good! At all! So yes it's time to change oil and filter!
Hey man, I have a question, I will really appreciate any help. Have you ever done a timing belt replacement?? If so, how did you do it? Also great job with the transmission oil. Congrats.
Hello, no I have not do it yet as I have only 80k, this will be done around 180k if I remember correctly (check the manual service book - service datasheets). There are plenty of timing belt replacement videos for Audi on UA-cam, check those, it should be fairly similar. Best luck!
Hi Dr. Sunka, nice video, I like it, but this is not an S Tronic. You can not fill an S Tronic from the top. Only from the bottom. I have an S Tronic Audi, I just solved the filling up from the bottom. I just made a nice adapter, to fill it up with. Really simple, cost almost nothing. I also made a video from it, you can check it out on my UA-cam channel. Keep up the good work!
Hi. Nice job again. Do you know the audi parts number for the oil? I saw your link showed a febi oil, is it also good or do I need to use the original audi oil? Cheers
Sorry for the mistake. Filling from top is not too bad. I tried the VAG adapter but don't like it too much. See this vid: ua-cam.com/video/YEGJeITbTXA/v-deo.html
To establish correct level, the transmission oil should be between 35° and 45° with engine running. Doing it without engine running will end up with underfilled gearbox as it dumps what's being circulated by the internal pump. You can get oil temperature by using VCDS or Obdeleven. Car should be level.
We are told you need four and a half litres, so I was surprised to find that there is six litres in the kit I received. When I took the metal drain plug out quite a bit of oil came out before I removed the inner tube. I drained the very dark oil out and found it was four and a quarter litres. I tried filling via the filter method, but it took an eternity for the oil to go in. I found the up the drain hole with a syringe to be much quicker. I got almost exactly four and a half litres in before some started to drain out. Perfect I thought. So I started the car and put it in gear to correct the level, looked under the car to see that more than litre of oil had gushed out into (and around) the catch pan! I quickly turned the car off and found the fault. I had forgotten to fit the filter and cover! The oil had almost exploded out of the open filter container. That extra litre and a half came in very useful indeed. They must have had people like me before. Even though the filter is now in place I'm not sure I feel like starting the car with the drain plug out. dr. sunka (the video maker) suggests that running the engine helps to prevent overfill, but in the comments below, Niel G says not running the engine will mean underfill. These seem to me to contradict each other...
There is a lot of contradictions regarding DSG fluids. If you are not sure, just fill in as much as it came out.
replace the drain TUBE, then the plug before starting the car. get the fluid up to temperature, turn the car off and remove the drain PLUG. any excess will run out at that time. this is the proper way to do it.
Thanks you have saved me over £500 but my car is a 3.2 STronic
thank you will do tomorrow my one a5 3.0 tdi s-tronic oil change, save me a lot $$$$$
If you are filling from top, measure the drained fluid volume and fill the same amount. Never allow fluid to drain when engine not running.
Thanks man that really helped good video,,
What about the fluid in the Bevel Box?
How much oil did you put in?
I have a question I did my change as you showed but only got to use 3.5 liters of the fluid is that oky?
Hi Christian, a good question actually. So in this way, if you followed this steps directly, you have now a minimal required oil volume possible in the oilbox. I was driving like that for a year and was totally fine. I think, it is nothing bad, a long as you don't have crazy cold weather. However, ideally you would like to follow this, my follow-up video: ( ua-cam.com/video/lo8kiOxN8zg/v-deo.html ) to get factory level of oil. So you want to close the drain plug before filling oil back. Then you over-fill. Return filter and housing. Then you turn on the car. After some minutes you remove drain plug and wait for excess oil to drip out. When it drips per second you are done, return drain plug.
If you are not sure which method to use, you can also measure the amount of oil drained out (volume of old oil) and just refill the same amount back in, so return plastic tube and drain plug. Then just refill the same amount of new oil.
Just to calm you down a bit.. I did some experiments on this TT. I filled in (intentionally) 0.5 litre less than factory. The shifting was same, no changes at all. I filled 0.2 and 0.5 litre more than factory. Again, there was no changes in shifting at all. So I guess this is quiet robust. As far as I know, the full oil volume of the transmission is approx. 7 liters. Some of it is in the oilbox, and the rest inside the transmission and other DSG modules. So whenever you change the oil, you just practically mix apporx. 3 liters of old and 4 liters of new oil, i.e., you make it half-less "dirty". :D
hey brooo I wanna do it .. but wich oil do I need ? im thinking liqui moly for dsg transmision .. what do you think ?
Does the oil self drain out to the level when the engines on I dont understand?
Here is better explanation: ua-cam.com/video/lo8kiOxN8zg/v-deo.html
Brand and model of the filter please !
I had: Febi oil 39071 and Febi oil filter 44176.
i have an audi tt mk2 2007 and today i check the services and noticed that i have not changed the transmission oil and im 90,000 km should i change it?
Diego Sepu yes! Every 70,000km at least! Other wise u could damage transmission gear box! I bought the car with 170,000km and the last owner did never changed it! When I did changed it woz 1,5 litre of oil missing! No good! At all! So yes it's time to change oil and filter!
Hey man, I have a question, I will really appreciate any help. Have you ever done a timing belt replacement?? If so, how did you do it? Also great job with the transmission oil. Congrats.
Hello, no I have not do it yet as I have only 80k, this will be done around 180k if I remember correctly (check the manual service book - service datasheets). There are plenty of timing belt replacement videos for Audi on UA-cam, check those, it should be fairly similar. Best luck!
Hi Dr. Sunka, nice video, I like it, but this is not an S Tronic. You can not fill an S Tronic from the top. Only from the bottom. I have an S Tronic Audi, I just solved the filling up from the bottom. I just made a nice adapter, to fill it up with. Really simple, cost almost nothing. I also made a video from it, you can check it out on my UA-cam channel. Keep up the good work!
Hi. Nice job again.
Do you know the audi parts number for the oil?
I saw your link showed a febi oil, is it also good or do I need to use the original audi oil?
Cheers
Hi,
I use Febi Bilstein 39070, this one was recommended to my by an audi shop. (I am not sure if this is the stock one.) Best!
And what about the oil filter
Im from mexico .. its hard to get one ... could you recomend some brands and módels please ?
Why not chang transmission oil filter? This is hydraulic filter
this is DSG gearbox (not S-tronic) , and it takes ages to refill from the top
Sorry for the mistake. Filling from top is not too bad. I tried the VAG adapter but don't like it too much. See this vid: ua-cam.com/video/YEGJeITbTXA/v-deo.html
Whats the rush ?
I have done it and it is not so bad maybe 5-7 mins per bottle (5x)
The temperature of oil is very important, but you are not talking about it!
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