Originally Posted by UG_Passat
Originally Posted by The Critic
Originally Posted by john_pifer
Originally Posted by The Critic
Haven't worked on a beetle, but I worked on a 18 A4 with the B-cycle engine that should be extremely similar.
The bottom cover is a nightmare to remove (it uses multiple types of fasteners). I highly recommend buying an oil extractor and removing the oil thru the dipstick tube. The green one from Harbor Freight works great. I think VAG intended for the oil to be extracted since the dipstick tube is extremely wide and fits the widest extractor tube very easily.
Well, I learned something tonight.
Noticing that the Audi A4 in your photo has a longitudinally-mounted inline-4, and, knowing that Audi A4s are front or all-wheel-drive, I was confused.
How weird! A long-ways-mounted engine, with front wheel drive? I wasn't aware Audi used this strange setup, that places the engine so far forward.
Similar to the 2016 WRX I had, but that car has a 4-cylinder boxer engine that's only 2 cylinders deep. CG lower, and not nearly as far forward.
I've seen this before, but not often. Acura did this with the Vigor/2.5TL, which used inline-5 engines, and I've also seen an '80s FWD Saab with a slant-4 mounted longitudinally. Now that was an odd bird. But, I always thought those Saab 900s were really cool-looking cars! Very unique design. And attractive.
Audi seems to like mounting their 4-cyl engines longitudinally while VW tends to mount transversely. Not sure why. This particular A4 was a FWD ultra model which is why it had the B-cycle engine.
Audi doesn't use a dipstick anymore for the "luxury aspect" as they don't want their customers to get their hands dirty.
A3,TT, & Q3 (PQ35 & MQB) are transverse though, thus with Quattro, uses Haldex coupling. And the old A1 & A2 were also transverse layout also
B8 still had dipstick line, so installing one was not hard, as well as 3.0T.
Not sure about B9?
