SouthFL_Mk7.5
Autocross Champion
- Location
- South Florida
- Car(s)
- 2019 GTI S
Driving on the freeway on the express lanes (no ability to change lanes and zero shoulder). Going at speed, I see what ironically looked to be a metal oil pan right on center of the lane as the SUV in front of me just cleared it. I braced myself and clang clang took a direct hit as it passed under the GTI.
Moments later the Warning “Oil Sensor” came on. Luckily I was able to get out of the express lanes and find a large clearing behind a barrier and saw the oil slick and resulting damage.
In the hours since I’ve been reading up on metal oil pan replacements and some seem to have their quirks. I’m swaying towards a factory replacement and maybe a metal skid plate. Any thoughts? I have a metal skid plate on my R56 Mini Cooper and it has taken a few hits! Definitely has saved some carnage from taking place.
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If I were to do it all over again, I'd skip the steel pan and just get the plate. My daughter reinforced this thought when she drove her lowered Mk7 Golf a little too fast down a driveway with her steel pan. She had no idea that she had bumped anything until the next morning when she came outside to a puddle of oil under the car. Sure the steel pan took the hit like a champ and held oil long enough to get her 200 miles down the road to home; but the plastic oil level sensor was cracked and its mounting post bent. Without a doubt, that's far better than all of the oil just getting dumped at once. Still, I think that a skid plate might have distributed that impact and made enough noise to scare her... "Hey dumb-ass; don't drive like that!" or "See, your dad TOLD you not to lower your car so much!" 
