The Audi B8 and Volkswagens with the 2.0T engine come with a plastic water pump from the factory. When your plastic water pump begins to fail, instead of replacing it with another Genuine Audi/VW...
In the course of only about a year, the Volkswagen ID.R has been ticking lap records off a seemingly never-ending list all across the globe. It has only been a little over a month since Volkswagen Motorsport and Romain Dumas shattered the hillclimb record at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and...
You're on your way home from work and all of a sudden your car goes into limp mode without any warning, or even worse, it starts to sputter before it ultimately dies on the side of the road. If you drive an Audi B8 A4 or any other Audi/VW with the 2.0T engine, there's a good chance it's due to...
If you haven't heard, the time is up on Volkswagen's industry-leading 6-year/72,000-mile warranty. Only two years after being introduced, VW is killing their 6/72 warranty and replacing it with just 4-years/50,000-miles. You read that right, VW's amazing warranty is over and instead is being...
The 2nd and 3rd generation turbocharged two-liter Audi and Volkswagen engines feature a crankcase ventilation system (PCV) that is crucial to your engine's performance. If your breather/oil separator is failing, VW offers an updated genuine breather replacement. Although Volkswagen/Audi doesn't...
In a time when the majority of manufacturers are moving toward all automatic or dual-clutch transmission vehicle lineups, Volkswagen just officially announced the production of an all-new six-speed manual transmission. The all-new 6-speed manual from Volkswagen, dubbed the MQ281, instead of...
The 2nd and 3rd generation turbocharged two-liter Audi and Volkswagen engines have timing chain tensioners that need regular replacement. Volkswagen now offers an updated design that extends the service interval. A properly functioning timing system in your MK6 Audi or Volkswagen is vital to the...
The 2nd generation CCTA and CBFA Audi and Volkswagen have plastic intake manifolds that are extremely common failure items due to the fact that those engines are direct injected. Knowing how prevalent the issue is, Volkswagen/Audi offers a cost-effective replacement. There's no way around...
The 2nd and 3rd generation two-liter turbo Audi and Volkswagen engines are known to produce an oil leak from the cam cradle. This leak allows oil to run down the front of the engine block and onto the water pump housing. Over time this oil will deteriorate the plastic of the water pump housing...
Volkswagen Motorsport, with the help driver Romain Dumas, crushed yet another record over this past weekend. This time it wasn't just an electric-car record, but the overall record up the famous FOS hill—finally toppling the twenty-year-old record by a massive 1.7 seconds. The Volkswagen ID.R is...