Latest shite (i had to get pics off the net as it's p**sing down)

[xkjagnz]

Bought one of these recently

 

with one of these (the engine to avoid by all accounts)

 

A bit under $3500 NZ (about 1500 quid)

[STUNO]

That's noice

[Jifflemon]

Not been a vw person, why's it the engine to avoid? Many problems?

[r.welfare]

I didn't think the engine was problematic, it's more the eye watering cost of replacement ancillaries like the exhaust that's the issue.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Marvellous ! Same looks and prestige* as your local plasterer's work hack Passat TDi, but with Bentley running costs !

[leakingstrut]

It's a VW from the era where washer fluid* would wick into the rear lights via the ECU, with a massive engine stuffed in a tiny hole. A lot of parts are now no longer available too.

 

Despite that, great purchase. These are awesome cars.

 

*Edit: my bad, it was coolant not screenwash.

[Laseraligningfoofooflanges]

Apparently these are rocking horse in the uk, Thought it would have set you back more than a bag and a half over there bud.

[Felly Magic]

Isn't the belt swap a bastard on these?

[Sigmund Fraud]

Isn't the belt swap a bastard on these?

 

They have a chain, don't they ?

 

Even the auxilliary belt shouldn't be too bad, as long as they retain the front panel "service position" of the lesser models.

[Pillock]

The estates are better really, because you need the extra room for the massive testicles you must have to take one of these on.

[Lacquer Peel]

They have a chain, don't they ?

 

Even the auxilliary belt shouldn't be too bad, as long as they retain the front panel "service position" of the lesser models.

VAG timing chains are easily outlasted by most timing belts.

I like the Piech era madness.

[michael1703]

The estates are better really, because you need the extra room so you can lay all the bits of engine you've removed in the spacious boot

[Bren]

£800 for a zorst. I'm oot.

[rantingYoof]

Freakin' awesome.

[unclecalzone]

Got one of those quite local to me, it's awesome buti can't see how it really made production considering how utterly insane the engine is and for what benefit over a v8, vr6 or turbo? However on curiosity points well then 11 out of 10

 

 

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[HH-R]

Is this the engine that was in the Phaeton? (Or Netto Bentley as it was once amusingly called on here)

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Fucking wars, I love these, used to see quite a few on eBay with kippered auto boxes

[spartacus]

The worrying thing there is that you're looking for then on eBay...

[SiC]

Absolutely top notch! These are a last of a dying breed of taking bog standard family cars and putting ridiculous engines that are mundane looking, impractical and difficult to fix.

 

So right up my street. Unfortunately these (as typical with German shite here) at their cheapest are still more than I'd want to risk.

[xkjagnz]

Sorry for the late replies. I actually bought this last april after the slush box on my Merc 300TE started playing up. So far apart from an expensive brake rebuild (euro parts are expensive here in NZ) it has done 50000 km in a year with 2 x $500 services by a local specialist, Touch wood all ok though it eats tyres on all 4 corners.

It is stupidly quick and accelerates like a scalded cat, I live 80km from work - the last 25 down a twisty country road and it is a hoot, for a 4wd slushboxed thing I still get the tail out round some of the 35km rated corners (I am generally going a bit faster than that) I get about 20mpg (12l/100km) as a hoon, more if I drive sedately but its only about 80p a litre here (more post Brexit pound woes)

It is our farm car so the back is generally filled with plants/horse poo/general detritus.

full leather interior and half decent stereo too

[xkjagnz]

Oh and before you say it - I'm not a boy racer hoon - I am a 54 year old Grandfather (hoon!)

The engine is a 4 litre W8 and the car was basically VWs testbed for the W series and the Phaeton which has a W12

Not sure how the engine works, people bandy about phrases like 2 V4s on a flat plane crank etc, I'm convinced that witchcraft and probably pixies are involved somewhere down the line (ps I'm an engineer and they baffle me)

[xkjagnz]

£800 for a zorst. I'm oot.

Luckily NZ doesn't salt the roads, and the exhaust looks in pretty good condition, also we still have a big modifying scene here (plus few regulations so you can get one knocked up in a local pipe shop (negative cat etc and no noise/emission issues) and get away with it (for info the emission rules here are so lax that none of the VW diesels are getting recalled!!)

[Ghosty]

Is this the engine that was in the Phaeton? (Or Netto Bentley as it was once amusingly called on here)

 

Phaeton was V6, that Audi(?) 4.2 V8, V10 TDI or W12 wasn't it?

[Sloth in a bowl]

Top buying, you now need a Lancia Thema 8.32 to go with it