My friend put a 2.7TT in his when his V8 blew up. It's a swap that isn't all that hard but is technically illegal as you're backdating the motor into a newer chassis.
My friend put a 2.7TT in his when his V8 blew up. It's a swap that isn't all that hard but is technically illegal as you're backdating the motor into a newer chassis.
HFmaxi wrote: My 2010 TDI has required near zero general maintenance items outside oil and fuel filters (which are insanely easy to change btw). At 115k it's still on it's original front pads and just got new rears. The AC has always been flaky with the silly valve control thing. The big issue with anything that has left me stranded (iced up intercooler twice) or cracked DPF (see an estimated 4k in warranty work that VW has had to shell out) is that anything else that has been an issue was always working away at what seemed to be 100% and then suddenly without notice just failed. Failing without notice is really annoying.
Dude, sorry but a car with 115k miles on it that has stranded you three times is not "zero maintenance." Stockholm syndrome indeed...
dculberson wrote:HFmaxi wrote: My 2010 TDI has required near zero general maintenance items outside oil and fuel filters (which are insanely easy to change btw). At 115k it's still on it's original front pads and just got new rears. The AC has always been flaky with the silly valve control thing. The big issue with anything that has left me stranded (iced up intercooler twice) or cracked DPF (see an estimated 4k in warranty work that VW has had to shell out) is that anything else that has been an issue was always working away at what seemed to be 100% and then suddenly without notice just failed. Failing without notice is really annoying.Dude, sorry but a car with 115k miles on it that has stranded you three times is not "zero maintenance." Stockholm syndrome indeed...
Exactly. If any of the cheapest piles of crap on the road repeatedly left owners stranded they'd rightly be called unreliable but it seems with a VW it's just part of the ownership experience.
Had a 2001 Audi A6 with the 2.8 that we bought used with around 30k miles. Exhaust catalyst started making terrible noises and was replaced under warranty, common failure according to the dealer. For the first three months I owned it I would get intermittent failures where it would go into limp mode. Turns out these were all during rain storms and after several dealer trips one of the techs finally found a cracked housing that was letting water get into some electronics. The rest of it was relatively minor things like the washer line cracking that ran to the headlight washers. I wondered for a bit why I kept losing washer fluid before they found that one. Yeah, timing belt required the front end to come off at around 70k miles and cost me over $1k for the service. My neighbor bought the car around 90k miles and the transmission blew up around 170k miles.
Never left me stranded though.
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