Almost at 100K. Can it be a sign? ;0)

[jincs]

I hit 95K a few days ago and looked at the speedometer to find this...

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d49/Ryanzard10/Funny/95K.jpg

Maybe its a sign to upgrade to a 337? :german: Just kidding, I gots love for Dub's but my next car isn't going to be one.

Most recent pics of the ride...

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d49/Ryanzard10/Rider/IMGP5687.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d49/Ryanzard10/Rider/IMGP5688.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d49/Ryanzard10/Rider/IMGP5691.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d49/Ryanzard10/Rider/IMGP5695.jpg


http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d49/Ryanzard10/Rider/IMGP5699.jpghttp://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d49/Ryanzard10/Rider/IMGP5692.jpg
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d49/Ryanzard10/Rider/IMGP5697.jpg

[jincs]

I know its pricey but how much does a timing belt installation usually go for?

[tpotp]

700-800
parts included, also get the water pump done at the same time
go to GERMANWERKS

[zRockstar]

Man, that car looks like it's ready for another 100K. Sweet ride! :tup:

[jincs]

700-800
parts included, also get the water pump done at the same time
go to GERMANWERKS

Yeah I'm getting the water pump done as well. I'll call that place and Group 5 and see how much they charge.

[jincs]

Man, that car looks like it's ready for another 100K. Sweet ride! :tup:

I'll be cruisin' all those miles. :cool:

[wikedgolf]

aww.. so young so much more mileage to cover. My vw has been sitting for 2 years and has all most 3 times more mileage on the odometer.. hahaha

[DanT1.8T]

Where did you get your fender and bumper markers? They are sweet.

[jincs]

aww.. so young so much more mileage to cover. My vw has been sitting for 2 years and has all most 3 times more mileage on the odometer.. hahaha

Pics of your ride? :tup:

Where did you get your fender and bumper markers? They are sweet.

ECS and 42DD.


700-800
parts included, also get the water pump done at the same time
go to GERMANWERKS

Germanwerks $630 estimate on installation, military discount included. Group5 doesn't have a tech to do the job at the moment.

[jincs]

MJM's timing belt extra plus kit in the mail $250 shipped. Cutting into my bike funds waaah. :o Anywhere else in SD to get a timing belt change?

[joe18tbo112]

Hmm... If I decided I wanted to do that kind of work from home, I'd charge $300. Pain to do at home. so much easier at work

[bugzy]

www.samtechauto.com

i had my dad's GTI 337 timing belt done at 80k about 2 months ago

[mike]

any european car over 60K miles has a foot in the grave and its a roll of the dice. I keep my isht no longer than it has a warranty, my GLI, has CPO until 2012

[DarkstaR]

damn Ryan already close to 100k? didn't know you had high mileage on the car

[karl]

you got plenty of life in it.........im at 118k on my gti, my last jetta had 272k on it when i traded it in. i think if you keep it factory spec as far as engine is concerned and keep up on maintenence it will last you as long as you want. i think i could probably get at least another 100k on it. i jump in my car and have no worries about it being able to make it. if i had the time and money to do it, i would take the car cross country at the drop of a dime

[jincs]

www.samtechauto.com (http://www.samtechauto.com)

i had my dad's GTI 337 timing belt done at 80k about 2 months ago


Sam Tech gave a pretty good estimate compared to other places I've called. I'm gonna get my job done there. Forgot his name but whoever was on the phone with me mentioned your name Mr. Lon. ;)

[jincs]

damn Ryan already close to 100k? didn't know you had high mileage on the car

I'm not even chipped yet, gotta get my maintenance done before any problems start coming up.

you got plenty of life in it.........im at 118k on my gti, my last jetta had 272k on it when i traded it in. i think if you keep it factory spec as far as engine is concerned and keep up on maintenence it will last you as long as you want. i think i could probably get at least another 100k on it. i jump in my car and have no worries about it being able to make it. if i had the time and money to do it, i would take the car cross country at the drop of a dime

Car karma, take care of your ride and it'll do the same to you. ;)

[danielface]

nice man. im winning tho. im at 99357 hahha. why not do the timing belt yourself? i did mine, wasnt too bad.

[jincs]

nice man. im winning tho. im at 99357 hahha. why not do the timing belt yourself? i did mine, wasnt too bad.

Yay for 100K. :) How much mechanical experience do you have? I can install a CAI but nothing more major than that. Guess I'm paying for peace of mind.

[danielface]

Yay for 100K. :) How much mechanical experience do you have? I can install a CAI but nothing more major than that. Guess I'm paying for peace of mind.

thats true. atleast you know itll be done right. and if its not you can blame someone and not yourself hahaha

[DarkstaR]

peace of mind > problems from backyard installations

with that said, I try to do most installs myself such as bolt-ons and anything relative

[jincs]

peace of mind > problems from backyard installations

with that said, I try to do most installs myself such as bolt-ons and anything relative

It's always fun getting your hands a lil' dirty, save some dough too.

[DarkstaR]

It's always fun getting your hands a lil' dirty, save some dough too.

indeed. it's always nice to get that "I accomplished something today" feeling too :p

[DanT1.8T]

ECS and 42DD.


Are these shops?

[EuroTunerGLI]

Are these shops?

yes, well places you can order from

ecstuning.com

and 42 draft designs

[T-Red]

any european car over 60K miles has a foot in the grave and its a roll of the dice.

That's good to know. My Golf has been out of warranty for a long time, I guess I'd better get rid of it.

Or maybe I'll just hang onto it for another 280k miles.

jincs: I wish my red Golf looked as good as your GTI. But it's my work car.

I think you should keep it, and keep doing whatever you're doing.

[jincs]

That's good to know. My Golf has been out of warranty for a long time, I guess I'd better get rid of it.

Or maybe I'll just hang onto it for another 280k miles.

jincs: I wish my red Golf looked as good as your GTI. But it's my work car.

I think you should keep it, and keep doing whatever you're doing.


Your work car should still look pimp. I'm thinking about getting an M3 and maybe keeping the wheels and sound system. I agree that the engine will last long with proper maintenance but I want to have lower miles on a car.

[mike]

The only car I would keep If I planned to drive it to the ground would be Japanese, the accepted life cycle for a car nowadays is 100K miles or 10 years. Anything more than that and your hedging your bets and taking it past what it was ever intended to do. My MK3 that was engineered in the late 80's early 90's, made it to 150K with only needing one axle, and shift bushings, everything else was service work. MK4 owners know you can't even reach 100K without all sorts of issues, windows, CEL, airbag lights, cooling system problems, etc.

High mileage cars are another story, especially diesels, since they sit and cruise on the highway and rack up mileage in the span of a few years, thats not an issue, thats easy. Short trips, stop and go, lack of maintenance, etc, BMWs use to pass 300K on the original motor, now we hardly see them get past 100K with out the motor coming apart, or an expensive catastrophic failure, VW, Audi, MB, its all the same, they don't make them like they use to. New cars are made to have a given lifespan, hence the "lifetime fill" on automatic gear boxes, the cars are made to be 90% recycled, most everything is plastic, and have computers everywhere and in everything. The days of keeping a car and driving it for 250K and 15 years is gone, you want that, find an old VW bug, rabbit, or a MK2.

[RS VR6]

If maintained properly, your VR6 will give you another 100k or more miles. Its not the chains that go bad...it the plastic chain tensioners that wear down. Typically the upper tensioner. On a VR6 the price for labor is going to be higher, because in order to get to the chains and tensioners you need to remove the transmission. The VR6 is a fairly bullet proof engine...its not like a 1.8t where you have sensors that control sensors that constantly go bad. I know plenty of VR's on the mid to upper 100k. Alot of them go SC or turbo at 100k+. Its all about maintenance.:tup:

The chains on a VR6 are on the driver side as opposed to the 1.8t being on the passenger side.

[jincs]

Good info Mike and RS VR6. :tup:

[T-Red]

If I had this car (http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d49/Ryanzard10/Rider/IMGP5687.jpg) with 100k miles, it would not matter which engine it had, I would do the timing belt and keep it.

Mike: I'm guessing that you are talking about VWs or BMWs that have been raced or otherwise worked much harder than normal -- that would be the only reason I can think of why any of them would not last 250k or 300k miles or more.

MK4 owners know you can't even reach 100K without all sorts of issues, windows, CEL, airbag lights, cooling system problems, etc.
AFAIK, the only cooling system problem most VWs experience is the water pump -- replace that and they are good for another 100k miles. The other stuff is easily fixable and will not strand you, though they can be annoying if you don't fix them.

New cars are made to have a given lifespan, hence the "lifetime fill" on automatic gear boxes, the cars are made to be 90% recycled, most everything is plastic, and have computers everywhere and in everything. The days of keeping a car and driving it for 250K and 15 years is gone
Forget the "lifetime" transmission fluid, just change about every 80k miles. If you are talking about the 01M 4-speed automatic, they aren't very durable, but there are things you can do to extend their lives, you don't have to spend $4k or $5k to replace the tranny. (It costs less than that to convert it to a 5-speed MT, but there's a lot of work involved.)

[DanT1.8T]

I'm at about 75k with my car, apparently it had a water pump done already, and a new clutch, I've done coolent temp sensor, coils. I know it's a matter of time before shit starts bustin but I plan on keeping this car forever. I've wanted my mk4 for too long to give it up when the miles get high, I'll just rebuild or rebuy what I need.

[mike]

NO, I'm not, the given, engineered, acceptable life cycle for a car now with proper care is 100K, like I said earlier, anything more than that, their is risk and consider yourself lucky. Notice how VW has started to stop making most parts for MK3's now after being out of production for almost 10 years?. I have friends in corporate in various levels of involvement, at several manufacturers, Nissan, Lexus, VW, Audi, BMW, and have been doing this now for a decade at a dealership level, after 10 years and 100K, the manufacturer doesn't even want to know if the car exists, sure, your car has made it along way, most diesels do and will, pile on highway miles, thats different from short trips, and such, Mel has her MK4 1.8T with 230k on the clock, and it has had some warning light on, for the last 200K miles, and alsorts of stuff replaced on the way.

Infact, low mileage cars tend to have more issues then high mileage cars, but the issue here is after 100K, your on borrowed time and you better have money saved up to pay for repairs, such as bushings that wear, wheel bearings, seals, body pieces, all of which have a certain life span which I mentioned. If you want to nurse along a high mileage european car that is approaching 200K or in your case, 300K, and dump money into a car that is now worth $1K with new tires and a full tank of gas, be my guest, you can't stop trim from falling off, paint from fading, seals from rotting, I will keep driving and cycling through mine as the warranties expire and get a new one without sinking a dime into it except for service, no expensive surprise for me. But what do I know, you diesel owners have always been the weird ones.

[T-Red]

If you want to nurse along a high mileage european car that is approaching 200K or in your case, 300K, and dump money into a car that is now worth $1K with new tires and a full tank of gas, be my guest, you can't stop trim from falling off, paint from fading, seals from rotting, I will keep driving and cycling through mine as the warranties expire and get a new one without sinking a dime into it except for service, no expensive surprise for me. But what do I know, you diesel owners have always been the weird ones.
Actually, I had reason to check the Kelly Blue Book value of my Golf TDI, and it said the PPV was between $8k and $9k. So I'll continue to "sink" money into it, like upgrading the turbo a few months ago even though the old was working just fine. (I got a deal that was too good to pass up.) Last summer it got Recaro seats; later this summer it may get an exhaust upgrade from turbo back (even though there is nothing wrong with the exhaust system I have). Two months ago I got a good deal on some alloys with new Michelin rubber already mounted and balanced -- after selling the old alloys for more than I thought they were worth, I ended up paying about 60% the cost of the tires alone, and got the new (nearly) unblemished alloy wheels for free.

I've been to a dyno day with lots of SoCalEuro members there, and while some of the cars were low-mileage, most members seem to wait at least until the warranty expires before they START with modifications.

It seems foolish to start with a stock VW at 50k miles, spend thousands to make it better, and then once it rolls past 100k just to everything slide because "it's old and wornout and Mike told me that European cars are worthless after 100k miles."

Lots of VWs, and probably BMWs and MBs, will run reliably for several hundred thousand miles. The Saab 900T that I got rid of after 16 years and 292k miles would still have taken me to Boston and back, in comfort and without a worry. (But it literally was only worth about $1000.)

[RS VR6]

If you have half a brain on how to maintain a car...you'll have no problems pushing past 100k.

I've spent lots of money maintaining my Corrado. Thats what I choose to do.

There are plenty of people restoring old VW's...what would you tell them...stop modding? Your cars only worth 1k? I can kind of see where your coming from...but your logic is way off.

I'd rather spend 1k and do maintenece on my 100k VR6 thats paid off than go buy another car.

VW stops manufacturing parts after 10 years I'm sure is purely financial...not because they make their cars to only last 10 years. There are plenty of after market companies that make engine and body parts for mk1, mk2, mk3...etc.

If your paranoid about your car lasting to 100k...your better off leasing.

[mike]

No, I keep them running for a living, don't want to get stranded, and don't want to have to spend my time fixing cars, buying parts, get in and go. Like I said earlier, OLDER cars can be repaired a lot more easily, cheaply, and can go greater distances, would you try to own a Saab NOW past 150K miles?, if you answer yes, your a masochist. I have a 42 yearold VW in my garage, restored, and in great shape, ready for another 40 years, no computers, no plastics, no fancy shit, plain old reliable car. My old 85 FJ60 did 200K without any problems, KBB can tell you a turd is worth $2K, good luck trying to get someone to pay that, in the real world, any newer car over 200K is worth next to nothing. Arguing with you is futile, what do you do for a living??? Maybe I should tell YOU everything about your line of work.....................

[RS VR6]

Lol...I forgot...your the only one that knows what they're talking about.

[mike]

What do you do for a living???????????????/ Are you factory trained on new cars? have you worked with the engineers? Do you have the development books? I'm curious, I didn't say I knew everything did I? I just think I have a different, more accurate perception then most people, including you.

[RS VR6]

I just think I have a different, more accurate perception then most people, including you.

Did you type that with your nose in the air?

You are the forum "Jesus". :tup:

[T-Red]

KBB can tell you a turd is worth $2K, good luck trying to get someone to pay that, in the real world, any newer car over 200K is worth next to nothing. Arguing with you is futile, what do you do for a living??? Maybe I should tell YOU everything about your line of work.....................

It doesn't matter what KBB says my Golf is worth, I'm not selling. I've seen cars that any owner would be anxious to get rid of, at any price -- but mine does not resemble one of those.

We should go for a drive sometime, if you are not too proud to ride in or drive a $1k car. :smokem: Then you might understand why 1) I plan to keep it for a very long time, and 2) why I don't mind spending a little to improve it.

[gtintense]

hey man whats up i have a buddy who owns a shop called exalt customs they take excellent car of thier customers and are rad guys teh shops number is 619-444-2300 ask for derek and tell them luke sent you