snickerd3
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why retrofit? There are tons more cars on the road spitting out way more/worse emissions. It will just make future versions less fuel efficient
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Because they have no choice due to their agreement with the US Gov't. They have to retrofit to meet emissions requirements, or offer a buyback with minimal offset for depreciation for over a half million cars.
snickerd3
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I meant the individual car owner taking the car in for the recall
snickerd3
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ugh...at that point i would probably opt for buy back
They're being forced into the buyback program, because they admitted that even with the urea injection systems, etc., they can't meet the originally advertised MPG numbers. It was speculated that the buyback offering will be even greater if they use it as a trade-in on a new VW vehicle.
So does this mean I could pick up a Touareg for really cheap, but then I probably won't be able to register it anyway? I mean I'm from Texas, everyone knows we don't care about the environment here...
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Just get a V6. My 2011 has had almost 40k problem free miles... Knock on wood (laminate). Isn't gas in TX super cheap?
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That's what I drive now. Best trouble free car I've ever owned.
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When I lived in Jacksonville (FL), on nice weekends I used to walk down to the park and back to get a little exercise. The park was right on the St. Johns River so it had a good sized boat ramp that was pretty nice. I sit for a bit and laugh and laugh.
Replacement Porsche motor is sitting on the engine stand waiting for parts. Blown up motor is out of the car. The damage was impressive. Piston is still in the bore, with a chunk of rod stuck in it point sideways. Bearing journals and counterweights chewed all to hell. Also blew a chunk out of the block behind the motor mount.
I was a bit leery about racing a "new" high mileage motor. Guy I bought it from had another 944 motor with the head off there in his driveway. I don't know what Porsche did metallurgically in their cylinders, but good lord. 175k+ miles, zero cylinder scuffing and just the faintest hint of ring wear at the top of the piston travel. The bore also had a very unique medium grey color to it - looked almost like a ceramic coating as opposed to the normal shiny steel you see in motors with steel liners. Best I can guess is that they use an extremely high silica or manganese content in the aluminum.
I was a bit leery about racing a "new" high mileage motor. Guy I bought it from had another 944 motor with the head off there in his driveway. I don't know what Porsche did metallurgically in their cylinders, but good lord. 175k+ miles, zero cylinder scuffing and just the faintest hint of ring wear at the top of the piston travel. The bore also had a very unique medium grey color to it - looked almost like a ceramic coating as opposed to the normal shiny steel you see in motors with steel liners. Best I can guess is that they use an extremely high silica or manganese content in the aluminum.
Porsche motor is now sitting in the engine bay. I ended up knocking the timing belts out Saturday morning - what a shit-show. The timing gear on the crank had damned near 1/4" of play in it. Someone had replaced the belts and water pump previously, and in doing so, had the gear misaligned and tried to hammer it home over the woodruff key. Porsche went to a long slotted keyway in 84 and later for this problem, but the 83, which this motor is, still used the much smaller crescent style key. I ended up buying an oversized 3/16" key, hand filing it down in the dark during a power outage, and swapping the gear from the blown up motor over. Sucker is now tight with no play, so fingers crossed that it stays that way. I was one step away from busting out the JB weld. Going to start bolting all the ancillary shit back up on Wednesday, and hopefully have the car running again on Saturday.
