I have just got a call from a VW specialist who is servicing my car to tell me that on the last service the sump plug was over tightened which has stripped the thread.

I had noticed a small drop of oil coming out over the last year, but only the odd drop.

Anyway, rather than replace the standard sump I might as well go shallow so... Anyone know of any really good deals at the moment?

I have looked at Awesome who want £131.99 + P&P.

G-werks £129.99 + P&P ( £138.48 delivered )

Edited 29 July, 201114 yr by snow_muncher

I did see that one but I will need gaskets, sealant and for the difference in price Awesome would be the better option.

On another note, the shallow sumps don't come with an oil level sensor hole?

The oil level sensor can be mounted to the bottom of the sump

It's not ideal, but does sit higher than the bottom of the OEM sump

Is there not a way to knock out the sensor? Sort of defeats the object of having a shallow sump if I have to have the sensor at the bottom.

I take it I can't just short it, it's gonna take a resistor or some type of re-coding?

As said, the oil sensor does sit higher than lowest point of the OEM sump

I believe you can put resistor across

I decided the risk of knocking the oil sensor off was worth the riskvs oil level in sump

Recoding dash cluster would be simpler.