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You're being paranoid about a small issue.

tune it and send it......deal with carbon cleaning once you've confirmed it needs it

Three misfires is nothing. Buy your own VCDS for $199 and log misfires using Advanced Measuring Values while you're driving. Sound...

Second the Zimmerman rotors - good quality and value for money. I like th EBC yellows as a good all round pad.

Yeah that's how to do full service but if you read my post I'm saying the original service was done incorrectly and I'm trying to fix it...

Yeah....I doubt it makes much of a difference to be honest at least on a normal driven street car, despite VWs exacting process. A...

Its a certain temperature window for checking level. If you've just driven over there it will be too hot so he will need to let it cool...

I have one of those that I used for my rear diff service. Definitely better than gravity filling. I didn't mind buying the actual pump...

Brakes are pretty sharp/sensitive on these cars....and some pads more so than others on top of that. Personally I really like the...

I went even cheaper, with a 'slippery Pete' one off Amazon for about $15. Fits right on the bottles (came with different attachments for...

Ha, spot on. Of course knew to put the snorkel in first having done a couple of other vw non dsg auto boxes bottom fill.... but have...

Put the snorkel in from the start and pump the fluid through that into the transmission. Then you’re removing the pump line once it’s up...

Yep, book is 5.2l....but it then states to run up the dsg to temp window while cycling through the gears, and check final level by...

Only other thing I can think of is it wasn't fully drained, or he did it on a slope or something maybe, car not level. Guess it would...

Yes, they will have a stream coming out for a start. because generally the practice is to overfill a little, then drain-to-correct...