Eh, it’s a mk4 chassis with a diesel. They’re pretty stout and not super complicated to work on.

Yeah, must not be a boost leak, or at least not a major one.

Is this one also a p0299 underboost code?

I’ve owned more VWs with over 300,000 miles in the clock than I’ve owned ones with less than 150,000 🤷‍♂️

Agree. Or the armco needs to have an additional energy dissipation barrier in front of it like a Safer Barrier or even a tire barrier, though tire barriers have been called into question before for other less than great side effects, when done right it can at least deflect the car enough, dissipate enough energy to…

Full stop. Without the halo, Grosjean does not survive that wreck.

That was insane. Without the halo, Grosjean is absolutely dead. No ands, ifs, or buts.

I suppose that’s what’s amazing is that despite the obvious power advantage 1970s Can Am cars have over today’s LMP cars or what 1980s F1 cars had over today’s cars, those track records have been absolutely annihilated due to how much farther handling and braking capabilities have advanced thanks to tire technology…

I love Pick n Pulls. I spent $100 at one today, Thanksgiving. Got an 11 mm TDI injection pump, an EGR valve for an ALH (looked pretty recently replaced and not puking oil vapors from the weep hole) mk4 driver door seal, 4 mk2 door latch assemblies. Not too bad! Girlfriend decided to drive over 500 miles last night to…

This is an overly extreme crash, and it is amazing the occupant literally walked away from a 100 mph wreck.

With it getting that kind of mileage, I wonder if it either never got “the fix” or the owner had a tuner “unfix” it after the dieselgate update.

Just use a good additive that deals with water better, adds lubricity back to the fuel and change the filter every 20k miles. And while the filter is out, check the bottom of the filter housing for any debris, drain and clean as necessary.

Hamilton is undoubted in my mind as a GOAT. Are there things I could nitpick about him? Sure. But I can’t question the driving talent. Never have.

They’re out there.... meanwhile me at 37... $1500 beater cars are still the name of the game. lol

Gotta pay for those election fraud lawsuits and forced state ballot recounts somehow!

Man I love the B5 wagon TDIs. I’ve owned 3.

Friend of mine claims Toyota had maybe a Land Cruiser model or something that had a similar AWD transfer case like VW where it has the torsen gearset to split power or be locked 50/50, but he also claimed you could disengage the front and make it RWD only as well, which you can’t do with the VW.

These aren’t known for catching fire... And diesel isn’t near as easy to ignite as gas. Gotta wonder if the shop owner got so fed up they just torched it and claimed it on insurance to be done with losing their asses on trying to figure out its electrical gremlins.

What’s wild is all the V6 TDIs we got here were more powerful than that unit.

Before VW started using 8 speed autos, they did have 2.7:1 low gear transfer cases. Though I’m not as familiar with the Amarok, I do know that here in the U.S., when the Touareg went to an 8 speed, they stopped offering the low gear transfer case, likely because they put an extra short 1st gear on the 8 speeds that…