Triumphrat

motocyco · 07-06-2005

Hey Jeffro, Though I don't have an 05 S3, I've yet to find a motorcycle or car of recent vintage that didn't use a drain plug gasket. If you weren't looking for it when you drained the oil, it likely dropped into your waste oil pan undetected. You may want to fish around in the waste oil with something, or screen it into another container. It would have been seen if it was still on the plug. My 01 S3 uses a fairly thick (3mm) gasket which appears to be made of aluminum (or alloy). The owners manual advises replacing said gasket at every oil change. Be careful only to snug the drain plug to the specified torque, or bad things can happen, as in the steel plug stripping out the threads of your oil pan. BTW my torque spec for the oil drain plug is 18 ft. lbs. / 25 nm...Best of Luck...Motocyco

[ This message was edited by: motocyco on 2005-07-06 16:51 ]