Date:         Fri, 1 Apr 2011 17:53:18 -0400
Reply-To:     Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
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From:         Greg Potts <greg@POTTSFAMILY.CA>
Subject:      Re: Passat W8
Comments: To: craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
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Hi Craig,

There's a guy in our local club who works for a dealershi. Apparently a
timing chain on a Taureg requires over 40hrs labour! The engine AND
transmission need to be removed, etc, etc.


> These engines are challenging and thus expensive to work on. I worked for
> a
> garage that serviced them from time to time. I saw the engines out of the
> car for just about everything, though the W12 is worse. I think you take
> the
> engine out to change the alternator on the W12!
>
> The moral of the story is, They drop the engine/transmission/subframe for
> seemingly basic things.... isn't that going to be expensive!~?
>
> Especially when you have options in a Passat for the 1.8T (TONS of room in
> that engine bay) or the VR6.
>
> -Craig
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Stephen Grisanti
> <bike2vcu@yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> I knew about the W12 in the Phaeton, but did not know about this engine
>> or
>> that it had been available in the Passat.  Now two of these cars turned
>> up
>> at neighborhood lots a block apart. Both 2003, both pale metallic green,
>> both 4Motion, both manumatic, one a wagon with matching green leather
>> and
>> the other a sedan with tan leather.  I looked up the engine and it's two
>> narrow-angle VR4s side by side.  Looks hellaciously complicated, but
>> they
>> look like pretty nice cars.  Just dreaming.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>


Happy Trails,

Greg Potts
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