Hey, I'm looking at a $1300 Canadian black Jetta TD with a new exhaust, replaced bits and pieces under the hood (regular maintenance) and custom wheels plus winter tires. Clean interior (smells a bit like air freshener) and I'm going to have it looked at for rust. The front grille is broken and the door handles are mostly jammed up but that I can fix at the local junkyard. What I'm wondering is if this is a good price, and if the unusually long start time (about ten seconds of turning over) is normal. New to this forum, any odd rituals for new recruits? Thanks,
Sayyad
sounds like a deal for 1300, accept for the 10 second start time, sounds like its having trouble making compression, rings/valves are probably the culprit, either way it'd be worth a rebuilt motor to buy it and have say 2 grand into it.
Moved to "general". IDI Engine is for power enhancement related discussion only - thanks. (And welcome to the board!)
Thanks guys, thanks Jake for the welcome. I'll buy it within the week most likely. I'm going to call the guy tomorrow and get our local VW specialist garage to poke around under it a bit just to check for any unnoticed damage.
So what are the possible causes for the slow start-up? Jake, do you still sell turbo rebuild kits? Thanks,
Sayyad
Thanks guys, thanks Jake for the welcome. I'll buy it within the week most likely. I'm going to call the guy tomorrow and get our local VW specialist garage to poke around under it a bit just to check for any unnoticed damage.
So what are the possible causes for the slow start-up? Jake, do you still sell turbo rebuild kits? Thanks,
Sayyad
Check the starter out; welcome on board.
I bought a 1992 Jetta with a 1985 1.6D freshly rebuilt 2 months ago.
Very slow, but after changing the starter and alternator, the little car is very reliable and fun to drive.
Hey. Man, living at home isn't fun sometimes (apart from the totally free ride imparted by the parents, of course). Said parents would like me to be able to get places myself without mooching their shiny, expensive, and above all, fast automobile.
But because of a little smoke (it's a diesel) and the sweet smell of diesel power (cuz it's a diesel) they don't want to help me out with this car. My mum's convinced that the engine's gonna blow up (the smoke) and I'm quite sure that there's just not enough air getting to the cylinders, possibly carbon build-up from the EGR if there is such a thing on this car.
The start-up time is actually acceptable, it seems to be at around four seconds or so which is fine by me, and could probably be helped by a new starter.
Anyway mother dearest says that the smoke (which I was too busy driving to notice I guess, as I didn't see very much in the rear view mirrors) is black, which I said is normal for a diesel, and then sometimes blue, which I said is normal for a 68HP diesel with three or four passengers, the choke three-quarters out and me revving it to a few thousand RPMs (I won't hurt it, don't worry). She says she'd rather just buy me a newer (1999 or so) TDI but I've heard that these VNT equpped and computer-controlled cars have more reliability issues than the older, simpler diesels such as this 1990 Jetta.
So I am just looking for more educated opinions than mine. Am I right about the air supply being possibly too low? Is there an EGR system on this car? Are the newer non Pumpe-Duse TDIs less reliable than the older TD-IDI cars? Thanks a lot,
Sayyad
The black smoke is defintinly an indication of too much fuel in the combsution chamber for the amount of air.