Volkswagen TDI talk

[Unimog]

Thought I would report on the demise of my old 2002 TDI Jetta. I bought it new in 2001 and sold it to my son about 8 years ago with 275k on the clock. He drove it for around 8 years and was hoping to get 500k out of it. The other day, he was returning from work, lost a bunch of power and figured he had lost a turbo. It got much much worse and opening up the turbo intake exposed severe damage from engine parts letting go into the turbo. He figured a pistons disintegrated. He limped it into a salvage place barely running with 395k on the clock and sold it for $300. RIP.

 

[Spork]

Checks odometer on my 2003... almost at 357k

 

[The_Lobbster]

If anybody else has a blown TDI to sell for $300 I’ll buy it!

 

[The_Lobbster]

Bought a BHW Passat at auction. Balance shaft chain is failing and noisy, but hasn’t completely gone out, still has oil pressure.

Anybody interested in TDI swapping something? My wife isn’t happy that I brought this home, so either I pull it and delete the balance shaft and keep to swap into something later, or just sell it as is. Seems to run good besides the chain starting to go out.