Jason gave you this piece of good advice, and I agree: > Keep saving your cash until you can > afford what you really want. Fix it once, the way you want, and you will > never say "but I really wish I would have ... On the specific question: Yes your mechanic is right in that the 1.9l TD swap is the more straightforward one, but of course at this point he has a self interest in getting the Golf, so beware... Both swap options are good and proven so it's up to you. You're in CA and I think you could probably get to see and maybe even test drive the two. I'd let any volonteer listmembers step forward by themselves. Think long term, not short term. Add up long term costs (initial swap costs, typical maintenance and fuel usage over the expected motor life) divide to get a cents per mile figure. Post your calulations to the list and get some peer commentary on if your assumptions were reasonable. (I think I already posted a more detailed thoughts on this as an answer to one of your earlier posts, right?) First then do you have some real numbers to decide from! (If you just ask the question like you did you won't get a useful answer for your specific needs. Everyone will just answer in favor of the swap they did, so the best you can do is to calulate statistics on listmembers pet projects) Good luck, Martin -- Westy 1.9l Turbo Diesel Quantum 1.6l Turbo Diesel Martin Jagersand email: jag@cs.yale.edu Computer Science Department jag@cs.rochester.edu Yale University Slow down and visit the VW diesel Westy page: WWW: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/jag/vw ------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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