1,9 aaz 1500 bucks

[millertime]

Im not selling it just saw it on vancover canada criagslist.  Not to far from the boarder wish i had thought to look on candian craigslist before I paid 2k for a 1.6 eco.  Oh well next time.  Its the vancover craigslist.  Might be worth the drive for some one wanting to do the swap. 

[millertime]

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/pml/ptd/3601784896.html

[JamesT]

http://www.usedvictoria.com/classified-ad/1996-Volkswagen-Jetta-GL-Diesel_19169647
This one is a bit more, but it comes with the rest of a car.

To be honest, $1500 is more than I would pay for an AAZ swap of unknown origin.

[nwcali6]

1500 is steep for an aaz IMO.  Complete tdi swaps are the same price. 

  Id jump on it if it was closer, but then if it was closer it would be $3,000..

  Maybe when I get ready for the 1.9 upgrade I'll make the trip up north..

[8v-of-fury]

I am sorry you guys got screwed down there when it came to anything awesome .

I got my running and driving 98 TDI for $400 when I was looking for my M-TDI candidate.

[wolf_walker]

Yes we did.

And the new long block was $4 or $5K for the AAZ in my truck a few years back.  Sucked.
It was still cheaper than a TDI at the time.

[Enslaved_Pickle]

I got my 97 aaz in a 93 golf for $500 with 230k on it, i won't pay more than that for another.

But i'am super cheap lol

[DogDiesel]

Yes,
  People in the south and west where rust doesn't kill a car do get screwed with high price parts.  But the problem is relative.  My 32 year old Caddy still has original paint and doesn't look that bad (about a 10Ft paint job) and no rust.  But I paid more for my AAZ than people in the rust-belt.  Its a trade-off.

unfortuneately, high scrap metal prices have made many old VWs mere relics in the rust-free southern US.  That and no one except collecter-operators know how to fix them.

But the BIG Problem is those damn annual safety inspections...

written with a hint of GEST.

Wayne

Case in point:  Put new tie-rods, bushings on my CADDY.  Only one shop in the Richmond VA area had the alignment specs for it.

[wdkingery]

http://www.usedvictoria.com/classified-ad/1996-Volkswagen-Jetta-GL-Diesel_19169647
This one is a bit more, but it comes with the rest of a car.

To be honest, $1500 is more than I would pay for an AAZ swap of unknown origin.

hey what kind of gas mileage does this get? a non turbo? are they a turd? this is a good deal for someone in Virginia. like really good.

[CrazyAndy]

http://www.usedvictoria.com/classified-ad/1996-Volkswagen-Jetta-GL-Diesel_19169647
This one is a bit more, but it comes with the rest of a car.

To be honest, $1500 is more than I would pay for an AAZ swap of unknown origin.

hey what kind of gas mileage does this get? a non turbo? are they a turd? this is a good deal for someone in Virginia. like really good.

Seriously, VW crap here in the East coast is DAMN expensive!  Makes it near impossible to be an enthusiast, let alone a gearhead.  You have to know way too many locals and be there at the right time to get a reasonable dael on a lot of stuff; junk yards don't even have half the stuff we on here seek, and that's just the cars themselves.  Thank god for Carquest.

 . . . wait, you're in VA too???  Well at least somebody's in hell with me.

[JamesT]

wdkingery, These cars get fairly decent mileage for Mk3's. My AAZ golf could do 6L/100km combined driving, and I didn't drive it gently. They are turbo diesel IDI engines. The engines are good, the problem is the cars they came in and the type of people who owned them previously.

Toronto is only a 10 hour drive from Charlottesville. That's a weekend trip in my experience.  In a quick search on kijiji, I found 3 mk3 diesels under $1500, a couple TDI's under $2000, and someone selling a complete AAZ and two blocks for under $400. That took me 5 minutes from over 4000km away. The good deals are out there, you just need to know where to look and be willing to travel for them.

*edit*
Found a better way to search.

[wdkingery]

Are you ***tin me??

Wait till I'm at my computer. I got links that would make you laugh out loud. You would ask yourself, "who pays prices like that? Who would even have the audacity to ask such a price?"

In fact, a friend and I just went to see a 2001 jetta tdi right. Ok it was horribly abused (like lowered so low and driven so hard the drivers seat airbag went off randomly), the timing was off for some unknown reason (belt still tight) and caused intake valves to bend.. Interior trashed. Unknown mileage.

And the price? $2500!

[CrazyAndy]

Pshhh, I've seen a clean one go for 6K.  FREAKING 6!  STOCK!!!  Unfortunately it's like JamesT says, the problem is who owned them last, but that only serves to inflate the price of the few good ones left in a pool of already small numbers.  There's a mk5 PD sitting out back my work taken in on a trade with a bad cam, and management wants no less than 3K, and that's employee pricing!

  I need to get out of this damn country, I swear.  At least this city; C'ville has 'little apple syndrome' to the nines, too many rich snobs, a douchey party college w/ a bad football team, and in a county full of dumb hicks.  AND NONE OF THEM MAINTAIN THEIR CARS!!  Everything more than 6 years old almost always looks like CRAP!  Stupid rich/broke students.

My sincerest apologies for the off topic rant, but I just can't stand to be quiet about my opinions anymore.

Throw up those links.  I could use a laugh.

[JamesT]

My sincerest apologies for the off topic rant, but I just can't stand to be quiet about my opinions anymore.

I've not yet seen you stand to be quiet about your opinions 

[CrazyAndy]

My sincerest apologies for the off topic rant, but I just can't stand to be quiet about my opinions anymore.

I've not yet seen you stand to be quiet about your opinions 

Hmmmm, good point.  I don't speak much in real life, admittedly; try hard as I can to go through the day with less than 200 words.  Gets me in trouble or laughed at.  Think "A wise man once said nothing", except I'm not wise.

But OT, what exactly IS the diesel/gas ratio of vehicles in Canada?  Is diesel cheaper up there?  I guess you guys had no Oldsmobile Diesel Debacle to color the public's image of passenger diesel cars.