G'day, guys.
Thought I'd let you know that it's now been almost 2 years since I did the breather mod and things are still OK, Really...no problems. Are you still having a similar experience?
A year later I bought another Golf diesel and it had the factory recall breather fitted. It looked neater but did the same job. I sold that car to a guy on the Australian mainland and on a run from Melbourne to Adelaide in 41 degrees it must have overheated...You can guess the rest!
Oh... and if you feel like it take a look at
http://www.vwwatercooled.org.auI'm the Administrator and I do my best to keep the diesel section rolling along!
Might have been mentioned already, but a hose from the valve cover hanging down past the bottom of the engine seems to work on my 1.9 aaz engine. very cheap, very simple, and no the back of the car isn't dotted with oil all the time. I know for sure of a volvo series 60 with 1.5 million kms direct crank vent to atmosphere and still runs great no smoke.