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There's an oil seperater that connects to the block, there's and o-ring and gasket that are both leaking.

For some unknown reason neither of those parts are in Aus, one is in Germany and one is in Singapore.

Germany takes 2 weeks for it to be sent.

Hence car cannot be driven for 2 weeks.

There was 1 litre of oil left in the car and was apparently pissing out since I got the car without my knowledge

Ugh... driving to work today, came off the freeway and the car starts stuttering on acceleration. Looks like I've got a boost leak somewhere or a misfiring coil. Yay.

Plus, it's like 1/1000 that have a leak. Just happened to be me this time. Which sucks but eh..

On the bright side 1000 customers either side of you will be raving about dat euro build quality :P

parents VW been in and out the shop for first 12 months chasing oil leak.

co workers tiguan dumped all it's oil last week.

hearing more and more of this on Euro cars recently.

still plan to get one next anyhow

What you looking at so far Martin?

Always wanted a C30 to mod. But it'd have to be a large project... LSD, cant fit medium intercooler, tricky ECU work ontop of a platform that the volvo enthusiasts are really raving about. oh well.

On the bright side 1000 customers either side of you will be raving about dat euro build quality :P

Lol everyone else is like oh it never happens its not a big deal. I'm thinking if it happened to them it'd be the biggest deal in the history of this company.

Yeah I can do his Tax

Let me know when he wants to do it

He'll need to talk to u coz he sub contracts as a poker dealer with an ABN etc. Pretty small annual income so shouldn't be hard but he needs to talk about what he can claim etc. I'll get him.to fb msg u if if that's cool? Or Or email

Hamish: haven't tried any others since mr burger. Paulie is a cousin or something lol..don't know him but I've probably met him, my extended family is massive. Any dessmann in Australia spelt that way is a relative

Didn't know he was the chef at parlour though, which is on the list of joints to hit

He'll need to talk to u coz he sub contracts as a poker dealer with an ABN etc. Pretty small annual income so shouldn't be hard but he needs to talk about what he can claim etc. I'll get him.to fb msg u if if that's cool? Or Or email

Hamish: haven't tried any others since mr burger. Paulie is a cousin or something lol..don't know him but I've probably met him, my extended family is massive. Any dessmann in Australia spelt that way is a relative

Didn't know he was the chef at parlour though, which is on the list of joints to hit

Oh tax talk how I missed thee

He'll need to talk to u coz he sub contracts as a poker dealer with an ABN etc. Pretty small annual income so shouldn't be hard but he needs to talk about what he can claim etc. I'll get him.to fb msg u if if that's cool? Or Or email

Hamish: haven't tried any others since mr burger. Paulie is a cousin or something lol..don't know him but I've probably met him, my extended family is massive. Any dessmann in Australia spelt that way is a relative

Didn't know he was the chef at parlour though, which is on the list of joints to hit

Fb is fine brah

Hopefully isn't a TL:DR msg

Oh tax talk how I missed thee

You still at the ATO Ric or you a lawyer now?

I still hate the ATO with a passion

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