Golf 77TSi - First oil change

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I just performed my first oil change on the Golf 77TSi ~6,000km.

Equipment used:
* 19mm hex driver
* VW spare tyre jack
* oil filter wrench (14 flutes, 76mm)
* Shell Helix Ultra Extra 5W-30 ($75 - Supercheap Auto)
* VW oil filter + sump plug/washer ($30 - Austral VW Fortitude Valley)

Not knowing how much oil is in the car, I used a 5kg digital kitchen (+/- 1g accuracy) scale and tarred the oil drain pan then weigh the discarded oil which was just shy under 3,000g. I drive about 900km a week back and forth from GC to Brisbane and the dipstick registers slightly above the "B" mark (see manual) in the dipstick.

Once the oil is drained, replaced the plug/washer, replaced the oil filter (hand tighten) - I filled up the 3kg of oil and then ran the engine until warm, let it settle - then double check the dipstick which was right in the middle of the "B" mark.

So I added another 100g, ran the engine again, checked the dipstick and finally settled on a total of 3.2kg of oil which stops just shy of the top of the "A" mark. Did a 5km block test run to confirm the oil level has not moved.

Based on previous experience, these oil bottles weigh around 250g or so. Gross weight of the bottle was exactly 4.5kg, so that leaves an oil density of 4250/5000 = 0.85 kg/Litre. So at 3200g that would mean 3.765L of oil.

Before I did the calc, I preferred to have put in 3100g so it would be between the upper range of the "B" mark and below the top of the "A" mark which translates to 3.65L of oil.

So roughly in terms of dollars - that would be ~$85 per oil change.

I plan to change the sump plug next time to a Fumotovalve

P.S. I have to say, whatever the factory did, the original oil filter was tightened way more than 20Nm. It was on very tight.

Here is a pic of the oil filter wrench I got from EBay (Seller: avenue35) for under $17 shipped from the UK (allow 2 weeks shipping):