:Banane08: Spot on! Jules, according to my workshop manual:
Rear Axle 0.8 Litre
Manual Gearbox 3.5 Litre
Engine (without filter change) 4 Litres
All I can suggest is the car was not dead level - eg up on ramps and so the rear filler plug is slightly higher.
Jon
Hi Jon
The car was dead level so rear diff remains a mystery.
Mine is an auto box but I did the "front diff" today and the capacity was spot on , full to mark before emptying and filled to mark on re-fill....1.2ltr both ways.
Did an engine oil and filter change today too and that took bang on 4ltr "including" filter change and that included running her up for a few minutes, checking level and a small top up to reach the mark....4ltr on the nose!!!
Going to do the auto trans fluid in the near future so watch this space for another wild fluid capacity....:icon_confused:
Maybe the rear diff on the auto was different to the manual and the handbook is a little generic.....My car is NA...the handbook shows an under bonnet diagram of the NA and the turbo and I seem to have components under the bonnet which are fitted on the turbo but not on the NA....A short fat cannister (fuel related but not the filter )behind the drivers headlight for a start....generic at best I think.
Think I will be doing a shed load of research on my car in the very near future!!!!!!!:icon_biggrin: