BrandonW

I've managed to get around to it today. I copied how you did it and it was very straightforward. With the car level there was no overspill on refilling with the recommend 2.3 litres. I used my cheapo oil extractor to refill which made it easy with no mess. First and second gears, along with reverse are so much smoother 👍 It was nice to see no obvious swarf or other 'bits' in the drained oil.

Was the reverse light switch easy to remove and how does it come out? Now the weather has picked up and I'll have some spare time I'm wanting to get it done soon. Cheers

I've seen a couple of mentions of removing the selector switch, (marked by a red arrow) after selecting neutral to use as the filler hole. On my 2019 vrs you can view what's in your image from above and access is good. I'm not sure if your image is also taken from above. Is the reverse light switch the one I've highlighted with a blue arrow? Cheers

Great stuff, cheers 👍

Trip to work and back is only 6 miles one way for 5 days a week at 40mph tops plus sittingin traffic then a couple of longer runs of 40 miles twice a week and it gets a blast during those trips. I've always changed my engine oil in all my cars around 4-5k miles and believe this is why I've never had any issues of real note with any of them. Clean oil equals a clean engine, and for an extra 50 quid a year to me is money well spent. Same goes for making sure other fluids are changed before or at their scheduled intervals. Gearbox oil for me should be changed around 50k miles.

Hello all, Newbie here. I'm looking to change the gear box oil in my 2019 Octavia vrs 245 petrol manual 6 speed box. I've made the mistake of not checking if it has drain and fill plugs and bought the original VW gear oil at almost 150 notes for 3x 1 litre bottles. Theres 54k miles on the clock so I'd like to change it as the thought of never changing it doesn't sit right with me. I change the engine oil ( Castrol 5w30) every 4k miles and drop out the 0w20 after 1k miles after its had its dealer service and run it on Momentum. Having jacked the car up I've found there's only a drain plug and no fill plug. After searching the Internet it appears that to refill it requires the selector switch removing which is a black plastic nut towards the top of the gear box. Some say to put the car into neutral,remove the switch, refill with 2.3 litres of oil and refit the plastic gear switch, and job done. Others mention putting into neutral and locking the gear selector in place from 9 o'clock to 12 o'clock and also following the above. I can't see why only removing the switch to get access to refill needs the gear selector locking in place. As it's messing with the gear box I don't want you get it wrong. Most of that info is now a few years old so I'd like to think a lot more people have changed theirs since then. Any advice would be welcome.