I've just been clearing out the garage (loads to still do) and came across an old soft plastic zipped case for a litre of oil for the Audi A4 3.2 v6 that I was lucky to have as a company car for a while.
The case on it's own isn't cheap, it's well made. and has the Audi logo on it. It's the sort of thing you might use for a camera zoom lens lens (think 70-200 for the size).
Inside the case was a plastic coated card funnel to aid pouring the oil, a pair of nicely folded plastic gloves and a cleaning cloth.
The case is currently in a plastic refuse bag destined for the tip. I'm in two minds now and might rescue it.
Goodness knows what that cost and save for the funnel, is mostly unnecessary.
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Loads of similar items on eBay with various branding on - I bought one for my car that had a litre of the correct oil for topping up (and all of the other bits) but didn't anything more that if the oil came on it's own.
Nice to have tucked away but I've never had to use it.
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When I was working for the car club, some of the cars, possibly the Prius and Auris had courtesy packs branded HSBC. They had gloves, triangle, Yellow jackets, camera and other bits and pieces in them. They were not left in the cars but any staff who wanted one could take one.
Mine now lives in the Herald with the triangle, yellow jackets and scissor jack. It sits neatly on the back axle tunnel where the hood sits when lowered.
Ted
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Got one of those with the Touran, with VW branding natch. Contained litre of oil, cardboard funnel and plastic gloved.
The ole VAG 1.9 pdi. was a bit of an oil burner. Noisy breeder too, but shed loads of torque.
Last edited by: Zero on Fri 6 Jun 25 at 16:51
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>> The ole VAG 1.9 pdi. was a bit of an oil burner. Noisy breeder too,
>> but shed loads of torque.
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Yes, I bought Mrs Z a new 1.9 pdi Touran after a huge bonus one year (the banking crash happened shortly after and things were never the same). We got it for a very good price. We had ordered a Vauxhall Zafira. The MK2 had just come out and there were some stonking deals on kitted out MK1s, but the dealer let us down with the colour and she walked. (Ordered blue delivered grey. Said take it or leave it and she hated the grey.)
Unfortunately she had already sold her outgoing car privately so needed a replacement.
We went to the nearest VW dealer armed with the most ridiculously low prices from the internet and they were able to come to within a gnats whiskers of the cheapest with metallic paint for a cancelled factory order.
The dealer was ever so good and provided daily tracking updates (it's been built, it's at docks, it's in the UK, it's here the dealership type stuff).
I liked the sales guy too. He really got that it was a car for Mrs Z and sold it to her - offered her the drivers seat on the test drive. Not all dealers did that.
It was the 7 seat model and was delivered with a CD multichanger in error, which the dealer left in.
She kept it for 11 years and looking at the MOT checker on line, I think it must have died at 17 years old.
As you say, it had loads of torque and she drove it like a rally car. She could also squeeze it in to the tightest of parking spaces with out the help of any parking sensors.
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>> The dealer was ever so good and provided daily tracking updates (it's been built, it's
>> at docks, it's in the UK, it's here the dealership type stuff).
When I ordered the beemer, the dealer gave me the vin number on paperwork quite early. I discovered a site in the states that tracked the car along the production line. I lost it in the storage area, then found it in loading. Tracked the DB train on line, tracked the ship to southampton, and checked the train times to UK distribution.
Dealer phoned me up and said. "Its due to hit the UK in the next two days". "Its arrived" I said. "do you want to know when its due to arrive at UK distribution?" I said.
He was crestfallen.
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My old Golf GTi (now twenty years ago !) had one. I kept it of course. Can't recall if I took it out of the UP gti ! when I sold it - Damn, must have a look.
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>> The ole VAG 1.9 pdi. was a bit of an oil burner
The 2.0 EA888 in my Octavia vRS would get through a litre every 1,000 miles towards the end - still within spec, but probably contribute to the demise of its DPF and EGR cooler.
It's still quite strange not having to put any in the 308 every weekend!
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I found one in the boot of my A7, only going for a tenner on ebay.
Not worth the hassle dealing with some people on there nowadays. Only going to loose money with the new rules.
I've given up selling, now I just buy on that site.
Nice little package though, it's in the boot of my Merc now.
Last edited by: VxFan on Mon 16 Jun 25 at 11:29
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Audi A4 Cabriolet - Posh oil pack - Bobby
