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Thanks for the info, though I couldn't tell though whether that's a turbo or not. I think that could be the issue with gas engines. Consider for example the recent thread about synthetic oil, suggests something may be a bit marginal in that area, and dragging a heavy load could put it over the edge. All speculation on my part, of course, but it is sort of funny that that's the only engine VWoA didn't give a rating for.

Turbo gas engines always seem like they are running on borrowed time in the best of circumstances. ;-)

Mike

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Mike Hackett
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No, it's not a turbo, it's the new gasoline-direct-injection engine.

Almost all new (european) cars use sythetic oil (turbo or not) mostly because of change intervals extended to 30-50 000km.

That seems to be a VWoA thing, over here the rating for the A4 1.8t was in the 1300-1500kg range, and yes of course it could be had with a trailer hitch from the factory. Back to your "box" trailer. How fast do you want to go with it? Assuming the 150HP turbo will have a v_max of about 220km/h, and considering that wind drag is proportional to the third power of the (air-)speed you would be able to go over 170km/h with a trailer that doubled the wind-drag compared to driving solo. Even with a trippled wind-drag you would still be able to run over 150km/h at full throttle. Do you really want to go that fast with a trailer?

Ingo

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Ingo Braune

Thanks for that bit of info, certainly makes me feel better about the idea. Might have missed that if you mentioned it earlier.

Mike

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Mike Hackett

replying to Woodchuck, ba wrote: I have a 2004 TDI Golf and have a hitch on it, put on at u-Haul

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ba

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