Prior to my last car purchase I looked carefully at Jettas and Passats, with the Jetta wagon being high on my list.
I found, through non-scientific research, that the 1.8l engine could be a potential time bomb if not properly maintained. That pushed me away from any cars with that powerplant. The remaining things I took away from this exercise was that VWs, while in general are good cars, seem to have a potential for a lot of little niggling issues and parts are expensive relative to similar cars in their class. Too bad, as I really like Jettas and would still like to have one.... Dan ________________________________ From: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> To: Diesel List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2011 8:25 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] TDI, was:Secret Message for Rusty A couple years ago (2008?) a friend bought (against my advice) an '01 Jetta 1.8T. Quick car but it had obviously been neglected, rear shocks were toast among other things. It had something like 105,000 miles and his Indy said to do the timing belt. He put it off waiting for a 110,000 mile service. Before another week passed the timing belt snapped and that was all she wrote. He'd owned the car maybe 2 months and still owed around $10k. So a $3k rebuild later he was back on the road but constantly nickle and dimed to death. He finally traded it on a Kia or some such Asian driving appliance. My point here is not that a Jetta is a bad car but one where neglect will lead to an especially bad experience. -Curt Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:19:16 -0500 From: Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] TDI, was:Secret Message for Rusty Message-ID: <m1y5uuqocb....@cs.indiana.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii The TDI is reportedly a decent engine but VW diesels don't do well being flogged. The italian tunup is not something you want to do. Drive them gently and they will do OK. I'm talking mostly about the older NA diesels; don't know to what extent this applies to the TDI. With any VW do NOT negelect the timing belt maintenance interval. Allan -- 1983 300D 1979 300SD _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
