Steel oil pan replacement

eltawater

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May 1, 2008
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Does anyone have any experience of replacing their plastic lower oil sump pan with a steel replacement such as this ECS tuning variant?


I've had a minor oil weep from the car that's been driving me mad for nearly 2 years. Finally got round to changing the oil, filter and sump plug myself this week and found it's weeping from a very small impact on the front middle of the plastic sump. I'm loathe to shell out for another £200 for a VAG plastic pan on a 7 year old car given the state of the tracks I drive on when a steel one may hold up better!

Many thanks
 

andylong

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Jan 21, 2021
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Perhaps buy a sump guard, there are metal ones to be had.
Sumps used to be robust but increasingly they are very not.
 
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