I don't think paying $65 at Midas is the best thing for me to do, and dealers like to destroy my car.

 

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guard, find a 19mm wrench or socket and remove the drain plug, draining the oil all over your driveway.

Drink 2 beers.

Find a bag of cat litter and spread over the toxic waste site you have just created. Find the plastic bag that your newspaper comes in and put it in your shirt pocket.

Drink another beer.

Tear up a cardboard box and lay on that. Reinstall the drain plug, being careful not to cross thread it. Snug it down good, but do not over tighten. Use your tool of choice to loosen the oil filter. Take the plastic bag out of your pocket and slide it as far up the filter as you can, past the top of the filter. Take the filter the rest of the way off , keeping the end with the hole in it toward the top of the engine bay. Rest the bagged filter on the cross pipe. Climb out from under the car.

Drink another beer. Go and pee (don't bother cleaning you hands, its a waste of time).

Standing with your oil stained crotch to the grill, grab a screw driver and remove the decorative plastic piece in fron of the dip stick (see photo)

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Reach down in there and grab the top of the bag and snake the old filter out. Now snake the new filter in there.

Drink another beer.

Climb under the car and install the new filter. Put the splash guard in place and reinstall the screws. Put 4.5 liters of synthetic oil in the engine.

Drink another beer.

Ask you wife to change the oil in your shirt, then take it off and remove the oil and dirt from your body.

Shower.

Put on clean cloths

Carefully take the car off of the ramps.

Write a note to yourself to pay the guy 65 bucks next time.

 

Buy correct oil filter for TT model.

Take TT to independent and reliable local shop, having made a Saturday morning appointment.

Pay for 6 quarts Pentosynth 5W40 synthetic stocked by independent shop. But only let them install 5 quarts.

Pay for labor to remove and reinstall belly pan, install filter and oil and toxic waste fee.

Thank the guys at the shop.

Drive two blocks to service station to fill with premium.

While TT is being fueled, carefully install the last 0.8 quart of oil to the full mark on the TT dipstick.

Save the last 0.2 quart of Pentosynth for topping off if needed. (Have not needed so far, so have consolidated leftover oil into one oil bottle in my garage.)

Drive home and put leftover oil in the garage cabinet.

Wash the TT. (Wax too, if needed.)

Have lunch with my wife and Lara (our Borzoi) at the patio table at Anchor 5 Restaurant.

Total Cost of oil and filter change, including lunch and beverage is about $130, but then it is not cheap to live here, so I go with the flow...;-)

 

HandBrake lever as my bottom cover had been sitting in the back yard for future install after a future dyno

 

3.2? I don't recall pouring 5.8 quarts into our 225

 

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Owner's manual shows 5.8 for my 3.2 TT. Audi site for 2006 3.2 ltd. edition shows 4.8. My car is 5.8, but to make sure it is not overfilled, I want to install the last 0.8 myself. Thus, the ritual described.

 

Get some screws! Han's will be glad to tell you how much those lower covers cost when they self destruct at speed (screwed from not enough screws)....:-)

 

Ripping apart at speed is worse!

Problem is a lot of my original holes are stripped or worn down. 100,000 miles will do that to ya