MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => How to Guides / Troubleshooting => Topic started by: paulmk5gti on February 18, 2013, 05:39:47 am

Title: 2.0 tfsi head gasket
Post by: paulmk5gti on February 18, 2013, 05:39:47 am

as above anyone had any head gasket issues with there 2.0tfsi? :-[

Title: Re: 2.0 tfsi head gasket
Post by: Tortaruga on February 18, 2013, 10:45:47 am

No. What's going on with yours?

Title: Re: 2.0 tfsi head gasket
Post by: mance23 on February 18, 2013, 11:04:50 am

Nope never on both my MK5 GTI's very rare issue on these engines ? 

Title: Re: 2.0 tfsi head gasket
Post by: Tortaruga on February 18, 2013, 11:22:56 am

If you've noticed a whitish mayonnaise type substance on only your oil filler cap it's nothing to worry about. Happens in cold weather with short trips.

Title: Re: Re: Re: 2.0 tfsi head gasket
Post by: paulmk5gti on February 18, 2013, 11:45:06 am

Quote from: Tortaruga on February 18, 2013, 11:22:56 am

If you've noticed a whitish mayonnaise type substance on only your oil filler cap it's nothing to worry about. Happens in cold weather with short trips.

thank god for that had a little panic then! thanks for the reply :):)

Title: Re: 2.0 tfsi head gasket
Post by: Tortaruga on February 18, 2013, 11:54:59 am

Give her a good run and have fun with your right foot (without breaking the law obviously). Should clear it  :happy2:

Title: Re: 2.0 tfsi head gasket
Post by: mance23 on February 18, 2013, 03:14:08 pm

Quote from: Tortaruga on February 18, 2013, 11:54:59 am

Give her a good run and have fun with your right foot (without breaking the law obviously). Should clear it  :happy2:

Agreed ^^ keep it in a low gear about 4th and you will burn off all the emulsion as I call it, just to do with cold weather, short runs not allowing the oil to recirculate properly.  :happy2:

Title: Re: 2.0 tfsi head gasket
Post by: GrayMK5GTI on February 18, 2013, 08:58:00 pm

I read a buyers guide for the mk5 gti a while back, and apparently someone had head gasket failure due to running the car on ordinary 95RON unleaded!!

Not head of that failure on here though. . .

Title: Re: 2.0 tfsi head gasket
Post by: john87 on February 20, 2013, 12:23:55 pm

Quote from: GrayMK5GTI on February 18, 2013, 08:58:00 pm

I read a buyers guide for the mk5 gti a while back, and apparently someone had head gasket failure due to running the car on ordinary 95RON unleaded!!

Not head of that failure on here though. . .

This was also mentioned in a Mk5 GTi review I read a few years ago... cylinder head problems casued by running om 95 RON  :confused: I use Super anyway, stage1  :happy2:

Title: Re: 2.0 tfsi head gasket
Post by: homesqueeze on February 20, 2013, 06:05:57 pm

Quote from: john87 on February 20, 2013, 12:23:55 pm

Quote from: GrayMK5GTI on February 18, 2013, 08:58:00 pm

I read a buyers guide for the mk5 gti a while back, and apparently someone had head gasket failure due to running the car on ordinary 95RON unleaded!!

Not head of that failure on here though. . .

This was also mentioned in a Mk5 GTi review I read a few years ago... cylinder head problems casued by running om 95 RON  :confused: I use Super anyway, stage1  :happy2:

I have heard a few times about head gasket problems on cars running long term on 95 RON.