What tranny fluid instead of Redline MTL?

[MK1Scirocco16v at comcast.net (Dave Ewing)]

Which would cause people to say "Use this in your trans if you it grinds
going into second--it will help".  Usually it doesn't but the "sliperiness"
could help, I guess but if you have a bad synchro then you have a bad
synchro, Redline ain't gonna help!!

Dave

Man I hate people who "think" they know what their talking about!!  Just
today I looked at a used 91 Jetta GL Wolfsburg for a friend and the owner
wanted $3250!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Then he said that his son used it for a few
years but was never hard on the car (from the age of 16 to 19!!).  I drove
it a half a block and could tell that the mounts were bad and we all know
how that happens on a 85K mile car!!  Sure glad I have good common sense!  I
told him I'd offer $1500 since it looked like it had never had a t-belt
replaced (or any maintenance done) on a 10.1:1 motor and looked to have been
wrecked twice!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Smith" <sad_rocc@yahoo.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: What tranny fluid instead of Redline MTL?


> I've heard from a few old VW master mechanics that Redline isn't good for
the tranny as it's "too slippery". This, combined with the expense, has led
me to Valvoline full synthetic. Almost as expensive as Redline, but more
readily available and the description on the bottle makes the stuff sound
like it's designed for military tanks or something.
>
> Dan
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