Hi All,

I have been recommended to fit a Flash Lube kit to my kombi for longevity of the valves.

Can anyone also recommend doing this? Or not?

Do the carbs need to be reset after it has been installed?

Any advice/experience welcome

Cheers all

My opinion

Dont waste your money

VW have steel valve seats and dont require it
California hasnt had leaded petrol for near on 30 years and it hasnt needed this stuff
We havent had it since 1986 or so

Give you money to a decent charity
You will feel better for it and actually be doing something

It's all bullshit, as usual..

yep as everyone said... hardened valve seats
also it would probably contribute to grudge build up behind the valves
I only put those stuff in my SU as damper oil lol

yeah put it on, as they use to use it on all of the taxi so it must work.

just another way to pull money out of ya wallet

just another way to pull money out of ya wallet

just another way to pull money out of ya wallet

yeah all the taxi which run gas which is dry
it's true about hard seats so if you realy want just ad it to your fuel the old school way

i have fitted a lot of these kits to beetles an kombis over the years with excellent results,quite a few of them had valves closing up regularly through valve seat recession,the flashlube slowed the process down remarkably.some say that all vw's have hard seats but obviously this is not the case,some of the reconditioned heads that i have come across have cast iron seats that are not very robust and flashlube works wonders.

That's a diverse range of comments and very interesting ones too. Grumble, you have the same advice as I have been led to believe by a local V-Dub specialist. I guess its a small price to pay for reassurance of a reduction of valve seat wear and may well save a bigger expense in the long run.

Shall I invest or not? ha ha I am tempted. I once owned a 900r wear the valve seats were wearing at a rapid rate. If i could have done something to safeguard wear I guess would have.

Cheers for the replies.

I use flashlube, but I just have it in a spray bottle in the front, and get it out and squirt in 1 squirt for about every litre of fuel I reckon it will take. Only takes about 30 seconds before I put the fuel in. Squirt bottle costs about $2.00 I think. I am only on my second one (I keep re-filling it obviously) in about 8 or 9 years.

I use flash lube, but not the kit. I add it in the tank on each fill. I do this, as that's what I was advised by the previous owner.

I hear mixed reports about hardened valve seats, and that leaded petrol has not been used in near 25-30 years.

What about 1200 heads from 1965? Square boss and look to be original with the engine and car?

I haven't run the car without flash lube to notice any difference, and the plugs and carby look to be fairly clean internally.