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Old 01-04-2012, 06:31 PM   #16
StuckinMud
 
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Name: StuckinMud
Title: Absolutely Clueless....
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Originally Posted by oldestof11 View Post
He was asking about TDIs.

Well that does include a few TDI's.

My wifes albeit @ 170k and 14 years old now has only ever had a water pump and an intercooler boot fail. Everything else has been maintenance, belts struts brakes tires, intake cleaning etc.

a good friend of mine is at 320k on another 98 TDI. He has not had any failures other than a wimpy turbo we replaced which really was a stuck waste gate @ 280k.

I know a handful of TDI's with high mileage and their owners love them, however I don't wrench on them so I cant comment as far as any repairs.


Sop the point of the earlier post was to say while I have a lot of experience with VW's you don't buy them for reliability. In Fact you don't buy anything man made for reliability.

So if its an issue of asking SPECIFICALLY about a TDI go to the real source for that info... Freds TDI .. While diesel related here its really the big three so ...asking about TDI's here is like asking autozone to actually fix your car. They can fix a battery or change a wiper but they can't R&R the transmission.
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