I just recently procured a Golf 4 for my wife, it's a 1.6 I4 75kWa engine it had 153K Km on it as of purchase time. It has been running fine since purchase however on starting the car yesterday it gave a warning on the MFD with a beep sound and the CEL came on. Unfortunately the display on the MFD is German I threw the tongues at Google translate and I got "Exhaust Workshop" tried to see what I can find on Google but What I've been finding articles on is "Emissions Workshop" dunno whether they mean the same thing, the only Exhaust Workshop articles I came across had to do with the Touareg. Well I don't know much abt cars and unfortunately the manual cldnt help as it's all German.
This warning blinks only for a few secs then disappears and display starts to read some kinda time (now on 48mins).
The car however continues to drive fine or at least I haven't detected any deterioration in funtion or change in sound
So pls gurus any ideas on why this may have happened? And what needs to be done
I shld take it for a scan in a day or 2 however I'd like to knw if it's safe to drive around pending then.
It has only just been serviced, Total quartz 5000 oil was used. M beginning to think maybe it's not the right oil as this didn't happen before service. If so what's the right oil to be used for these engine. Thanks


Pls it will also be appreciated if a link can be supplied to download the owners' manual for this kinda golf.

You need to run a scan on the car. That should narrow down the cause of the Malfunction indicator light coming popping up on your instrument cluster. Why use total quartz 5000 since its not the right egine oil to use. Remember this is a VW. Any slightest of abuse would be detrimental to the car

Xiphoid:

It has only just been serviced, Total quartz 5000 oil was used. M beginning to think maybe it's not the right oil as this didn't happen before service. If so what's the right oil to be used for these engine. Thanks

You have already Started looking for trouble by servicing a 2001 VW with the wrong oil. The correct oil spec is written on the oil filler cap on the engine.

For the warning on your dash, Call 08030938491 to help you with a scan.

What's now the best oil for golf 4if total quartz 5000 is not suitable?