Comments by "BunzeeBear" (@bunzeebear2973) on "the SUV geek" channel.

  1. Okay how about a 1980 VW diesel Rabbit (non turbo)5 speed 1600cc with 365K on the clock and I saw the clock was not counting out the distance traveled. So obviously it had more. Didn't buy a new clock...because of the price...so took it apart on the kitchen table and (see if I could fix it as it was broken) I did fixed it with model glue(on plastic drive gear)and it was good to go. I wanted odometer to work to know when to change oil. Put 1,000,000 miles on that car and no; I was not dumping in a quart of oil every 400 miles. With that amount of burning you would see a cloud of blue smoke behind you. I ran pretty clean and clear. It didn't use any oil worth mentioning as it leaked, so I check the dipstick every morning before I drove anywhere. I ran 30W oil in the summer and went to 20W for the winter (or what VW puts in all their vehicles) Regular oil I bought at "Wally's" the recycled stuff that was the cheapest. Yes the car had a timing belt which I changed myself every 60,000mi(mileage suggested by VW)(because I read the car repair manual for VW and I had the tools) I have over a dozen old timing belts hanging on the wall that I will use for other machinery that are belt driven. If the table saw stops because the belt breaks, then I put on another belt. The worst that could happen is the saw stops cutting....which takes 10 minutes to swap out. Nothing EXPLODES...AND COSTS thousands to fix in Hooter-ville. An hour under the hood to change the belt and it is near perfect. About every second belt change, I then take it to VW Dealership that has a shop and have them check the timing of the fuel injection pump. That has to be EXACT. 1 hour of their time and their expensive equipment and their expertise and it is good to go. This is BEFORE diesel gate and that only applied to the Turbo VW. My car got 75MPG on the highway and 60 in town all the time. , Oh, I bought the car from the garage as the former owner did not want to get it fixed...it was running on 3 cylinders. I paid for shop inspection or $400 I was already driving a newer VW with same engine (1982 over a 1980) so I swapped out the motors because 1980 was made in Germany and you could smell it did not leak in water. The 82 did. Fixed the engine so minor I do not remember what it was and got it running on all 4. Sold it for $1600. After a million miles(15 years) you just get tired of driving that car and rust holes were starting to show, so parked it. Never needed to replace the muffler or exhaust. Just tires and brake pads/shoes once. Being diesel, no one was going to siphon the tank to steal fuel. 0-60 in 12 seconds I think? It was faster than the Super Beetle 1600 gas. It wasn't a race car. It was a long distance economical vehicle.(with heat)
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  2.  @tx611  or a commercial.
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  3. Try Bavarian Motor Works.
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  4. Could have checked the auto wreckers yard for a engine that did not throw a rod. I have a VW throw a rod mainly because the oil was super hot and super thin and I got it up into the red line real quick and there was no oil pressure. The engine had 500,000+ miles on it and I was driving it like a mad monkey. It locked up and too far from home to tow it like just did 1000 miles in 2 days. Yeah I destroyed the puppy you just can't be treating it like a bag of shitt and expect it to live. 9 years later NO dealership of any make would give you compensation.
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  5.  @user-tb7rn1il3q  They said that about the VW Beetle air-cooled with gas tank in front yet it was the FORD pony cars (Pinto, Maverick) with gas tank in rear that were the ones you always had a bag of Marsh-mallows for the just in case time.
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  6. One WOULD THINK we have come a long way in metallurgy... in that there should NOT be wear out issues on engines. We have also upgraded our oil lubricity...it is the slickest yet...so. WTF is the problem?
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