Volkswagen engines share their design with Audi, and so do their failure patterns. The advantage of a shop that works on both every week is that we have usually seen your specific problem before.
Almost everyone who calls is somewhere in one of these three situations.
Every job on a VW starts on ODIS and VCDS, the factory software, and ends with a written 12-month, 12,000-mile warranty.
Every marque has its own failure patterns. Knowing them is the difference between diagnosing a car and experimenting on it.
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On earlier EA888 engines it is commonly the timing chain tensioner allowing slack before oil pressure builds. It is worth diagnosing quickly, because the consequence of a failure is serious.
The one printed on the filler cap: 502 00 for the older 1.8T and 2.0T, 504 00 for the longlife schedule, 508 00 for the 2018-on engines built for 0W-20, and the low-ash 507 00 for every TDI, because ordinary oil's ash clogs the particulate filter. A thin-oil engine given a thicker grade, or a TDI given a gasoline oil, is a real problem, so we fill the standard the engine was built for.
Yes. Diesel work brings in injectors, glow plugs and emissions components that gasoline engines do not have, and we have the VW-specific tooling for both.
From the Mk6 Golf onward the rear caliper pistons are driven by the parking brake motors, and they have to be retracted through the factory interface before the pads come out and cycled afterwards. Forcing them back mechanically is how those motors get damaged. It is part of every rear brake job here, not an extra.
Yes. The dual-clutch unit has a scheduled fluid and filter service, and neglecting it is a common cause of hesitation and rough low-speed shifting.
Usually. Most of what is described as engine failure turns out to be a specific component such as a tensioner, gasket, turbo or PCV valve. We diagnose before quoting.
Models we service: Golf, GTI, Jetta, Passat, Tiguan, Atlas, Arteon, Beetle, and TDI diesel models.
German Performance has worked only on German cars since 2010, more than 10,000 of them through this shop. The technicians are ASE-certified and Mercedes-Benz factory-trained, one an ASE Master Technician with the advanced engine diagnostics certification, and every Volkswagen repair leaves with a written 12-month, 12,000-mile parts-and-labor warranty. Serving Snellville, Loganville, Grayson, Lawrenceville and all of Gwinnett County. German Performance is an independent German auto repair shop in Snellville, GA that works on Volkswagen and four other German makes, and nothing else.