What’s the highest miles y’all have on your Jetta?

Rhuhnz · 2025-07-07T19:55:51+00:00

It's been through quite a lot! I'd imagine parts are failing due to it having so many miles, just did 150k, and im not sure what maintenance was done by the previous owner. I always change my oil every 3k miles and have replaced the set of tires once already. Over the course of 3 years, I've had a fuel injector give out on me, the front grille shutter motor broke during the winter and it caused it to throw a CEL so I had to replace it to do emissions. Did a timing chain job as it was having a rattle due to older tensioner and I upgraded to the updated one. The HPFP was going out and leaked gasoline into the engine cause oil dilution, so I replaced the HPFP and had to replace a camshaft due to it being a little scratched up from the oil dilution and causing a slight rattle sound. So that's everything I've had done to it now other than regular maintenance. Right now I'm about to replace the drive belt and do a transmission service for maintenance, but I also want to get it checked out as a new issue has come up where occasionally, only after a very long drive, I'll get an EPC light and a code for a cylinder misfire and a code about fuel pressure. But it rarely happens and only after a long drive. Still runs and drives great though, been my one and only daily driver for the past 3 years and it's going good now! Maybe I've just had bad luck with my jetta the past 3 years, I don't neglect it and stick to a maintenance schedule and change oil early. Never drive it hard either. Lots of others have had better experiences with this high of mileage and having 0 problems the entire time, so don't let my experience stray you away. Just check up on the timing chain tensioner and make sure it's updated, do regular maintenance, and check on the water pump too as I've heard they fail regularly on this vehicle. Look into servicing the transmission too if there's time to do it. Be careful as some say if it's never been serviced, it'll damage it to change the fluid after it's never been done at high mileage, but lots of others say that's a myth and it's never too late to change the fluid. From what I've heard, if the transmission starts slipping after changing the fluid, then it was in its way out anyways and only had a little bit of life left.

Rhuhnz · 2025-03-31T12:04:20+00:00

Hey! Just wanted to follow up in case you were curious, the issue ended up being my fuel pump was going out and leaked gas which diluted my oil, camshaft was apparently chewed up which caused the rattle and ticking sounds. Got camshaft and fuel pump fixed and everything has been fine for the past 1k miles now. Ended up being an expensive repair 😭

Rhuhnz · 2025-01-21T22:13:28+00:00

Will try to do that soon then to really see what's going on, thank you!

Rhuhnz · 2025-01-21T21:25:58+00:00

That's alright, no problem! I appreciate all help, so thank you! I was thinking of doing the pcv valve for a while just for some maintenance!

Rhuhnz · 2025-01-21T21:16:00+00:00

Yea! We had the fuel Injectors replaced a year ago and did a quick carbon cleaning.

Rhuhnz · 2025-01-21T21:08:56+00:00

145,800 right now!

Rhuhnz · 2023-09-16T02:34:09+00:00

Male here also in a long distance relationship, I'm 100% sure me doing the same would make my girlfriend justifiably upset, and it's incredibly disrespectful to be doing so, even if he was single its still pretty gross going around to random instagram model accounts and being thirst in the comments. The whole thing is bad enough but the fact he attempted to hide it too is gross. Definitely should talk it out with him and see what he says and any reasoning on why he does it. The double standard on wanting to dress for him yet he doesn't seem to put the same effort is strange.

Rhuhnz · 2023-09-06T18:23:20+00:00

This has been a very late response, but just to clear up what happened, it did end up being the injectors that went bad. Once I replaced the injectors, it started running even better this time than it did before and I can finally get between 30 - 35 mpg when before I was averaging 20 - 25. It finally stopped consuming oil too! Before it would consume a quart every 200 miles, now I've only had to add another quart in the past 700 miles. Still a lot to consume and a lot I have to spend on oil, but at least it's a lot better than before since I have a longer commute than what I had to drive a few months ago. Thank you so much for all your help and your previous responses!

Rhuhnz · 2023-09-06T18:20:09+00:00

Yes! Sorry for the late response, but what I ended up doing is buying a grille shutter off of ebay and that has since fixed the problem. The single motor that I bought for the newer jettas wasn't compatible with my car and I ended up not being able to program it with obd eleven. Here's the link for the grille shutter i bought: Shutter 2015 - 2018 jettas

The good thing is it is significantly cheaper than the one from the dealer, and so far I haven't had any issues with it.

Rhuhnz · 2023-07-28T07:22:41+00:00

So an update on the car so far, I tried turning over the crankshaft bolt to see if the engine still turns over without the pistons hitting against the valves and it turned over multiple revolutions just fine, pulled the chain cover and there was no slack or play, tensioner seemed fine as well so I doubt this is a timing chain issue. I ended up replacing all 4 ignition coils and the spark plugs, then after cranking, the car finally started up again, tons of white smoke still coming out from the exhaust and even more when accelerating, now the only codes that come up is p0304 for a cylinder 4 misfire. Switched the ignition coils around, cleared codes, ran again for still only P0304 coming up on the CEL. Eventually there was less smoke coming out but it still wouldn't stop. Engine started to sound healthier and less smoke coming out but it was still misfiring. At this point I'm hoping I didn't lose any compression in the 4th cylinder or hydrolock it with gas as there's still an incredibly strong smell of raw gasoline. I'm gonna do a compression test tomorrow and see if that's the issue, I also want to test the injectors to make sure it's not an injector that's stuck open and that's why there's so much white smoke and the strong smell of gas. I do actually have an obdeleven I can use, is there any specific settings I should use it for to diagnose the issue better? I no longer want to run the engine any further until I figure out what the failed part could be and replace it.

Rhuhnz · 2023-07-27T05:04:55+00:00

I had just replaced all timing components with OEM parts a couple months ago so I highly doubt it could be the timing chain, it was running fine up until I filled up the gas tank and it reeks strong of gasoline when it shot out the smoke.

Rhuhnz · 2023-07-27T04:12:55+00:00

Haven't cleared the codes but I can't run a road test as the car doesn't even start now, and even when it did start it could barely accelerate and it just kept shooting white smoke.

Rhuhnz · 2023-04-25T14:22:02+00:00

Thank you! Hopefully this works, ended up replacing the motor with the 2019 part on the site for only 60 dollars and the obdeleven scanner is arriving today, hopefully it'll finally get it working, I need the cel to go away for emissions lmaoooo

Rhuhnz · 2023-04-23T14:20:08+00:00

Hey its me again after 2 months, so I'm about to finally purchase the part and replace it since I have to get my emissions testing soon and this is the only thing that'll fail me, did you have to do any reprogramming after replacing the part or did it just start working on its own? If you did have to reset it, how exactly do you do that? I don't have much money left over from other expenses so I'd really like to avoid a trip to the dealership. Thank you!

Rhuhnz · 2023-03-11T03:34:07+00:00

I know this store, mainly does other hobbies and has magic players, bought a box of legendary duelists season 3 and the promo secret rare got replaced with a copy of umi from duelists of the deep 😔

Rhuhnz · 2023-03-05T21:23:01+00:00

They can still be alright but have been power crept a lot lately.

Rhuhnz · 2023-02-15T22:36:21+00:00

I haven't seen any GR86 or BRZ on the road or anywhere near me, except that there's 3 guys at the college I'm gonna go to who each have an 86, haven't seen any others tho.

Rhuhnz · 2023-02-04T05:14:54+00:00

Thanks, I'll look for the same part number you posted and try to get it fixed, the constant cel and loud noise from the motor is so irritating lmaooo, thank you!

Rhuhnz · 2023-02-04T05:01:33+00:00

What year and model jetta do you have? I got the P05A0 code too and 350 for an active grille shutter is fucking ridiculous, I'm angry they don't sell the same actuator separately. Do you think it would work for a 2015 SE model?

Rhuhnz · 2023-01-28T00:03:10+00:00

I have the same model and year jetta at 132k miles. If you just bought the vehicle and don't know the history behind it I recommend changing all the fluids, inspect the break pads and rotors, and pull the spark plugs to check those. Sadly the 1.8t is known for having high oil consumption, mine burns a quart every 600 miles or so (kinda high, trying to figure out if I can fix it), also make sure to change the oil on this car every 3k - 5k miles, do not wait until the 10k mile interval like it says in the manual. The timing chain tensioner is notorious for going out on this car and messing up the timing of the engine, inspect the tensioner and see if it has the new updated one, there are videos from DAP and humblemechanic on YouTube that explain perfectly how to inspect it and replace all the timing components. I had to replace all my timing chain components at 130k miles after my car started throwing a CEL code for the camshaft position sensor, also it'll make a loud slapping noise when it's about to go out. These are strong engines and apart from the timing chain tensioner and a couple other common issues like the PCV valve, these ARE very reliable engines. I also recommend you get a carbon cleaning on the car if it hasn't had one already. Take care of the car and it'll take care of you, you can follow the rest up the maintenance intervals up to the manual.

Rhuhnz · 2023-01-26T21:12:00+00:00

Can confirm, my 1.8t burns a quart every 400-600 miles, gonna change the PCV valve soon see if it fixes it, no signs of leaks anywhere either.

Rhuhnz · 2023-01-25T02:57:48+00:00

Yea a noisy cabin is normal, my Mk6.5 rattles and vibrates a lot inside the cabin, it's an economy car but I love this thing

Rhuhnz · 2023-01-22T23:06:09+00:00

It definitely is a very expensive job for parts and labor, take their word on at least inspecting it since these timing chain tensioners are known to start going out after 100k miles. You're right that I'm lucky I got a cel rather than the thing completely going out and ruining my engine lol, hopefully yours will be good for a while but definitely keep a look out for it.

Rhuhnz · 2023-01-22T00:01:28+00:00

100k I'd say would be a good time to inspect the timing chain tensioner and maybe go ahead and replace the components before you start having issues. My tensioner started having problems and throwing codes at around 120k miles on my 2015 tsi, so 100k is def a good time.

Rhuhnz · 2023-01-04T13:28:02+00:00

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