Old guy Old Rabbit---both Happy.

hagar · Post by **hagar** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:07 pm

SAGA : saga ? yes indeed. , a REAL one ? yes but
only if I tell you all on skype or paltalk. I am a real Norsemand .
BUT hagar does that not belong on a different FORUM ? absolutely
correct. . Here comes another BUT.
I have special discompensation from the site owner and moderators..

(as long as I mix in some DIESEL).
All you newbies and "Lurkers" NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY EH ?

hagar.

PS : going price right now ? $ 100 to 300 .

tripseven · Post by **tripseven** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 7:37 pm

hagar wrote:NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY EH ?

hagar.

PS : going price right now ? $ 100 to 300 .

Hmm...time to buy what

82vdub · Post by **82vdub** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 7:45 pm

LDA and/or ADA injector pumps

tripseven · Post by **tripseven** » Mon Feb 22, 2010 8:04 pm

82vdub wrote:LDA and/or ADA injector pumps

Right

Note to self: Dont have a couple or twelve beers and yak on the forum

thanks dub

hagar · Post by **hagar** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:34 am

SAGA : a good time to buy a "RABBIT" .

hagar

tripseven · Post by **tripseven** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 1:02 pm

hagar wrote:SAGA : a good time to buy a "RABBIT" .

hagar

$100-300 for a Rabbit...with LDA/turbo? I'll take a couple or twelve

medwardl · Post by **medwardl** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 1:57 pm

"$100-300 for a Rabbit"

tell me where because i haven't seen it and if it were true id get one.

82vdub · Post by **82vdub** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:09 pm

My old (now somewhat retired) Jetta diesel I picked up for $50 and the last diesel Rabbit I got for $175. Neither of them looked great, but they both ran and drove. I actually just replaced that winter Jetta with a "new" 1986 model gas Jetta after driving the old $50 one for 4 winters. Yep, I think I got my money's worth out of it

Both of those I got phone calls on them as the people calling me knew I was into old VW diesels. They're out there for cheap, but I think fatmobile has cornered the market on cheap turbo diesels

tripseven · Post by **tripseven** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 4:08 pm

82vdub wrote:They're out there for cheap, but I think fatmobile has cornered the market on cheap turbo diesels

Perhaps Fatmobile would share some info?
I sure would love to get one and try some "Hillbilly Tuning" and retire my NA before it retires itself.

82vdub · Post by **82vdub** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 4:53 pm

tripseven wrote:I sure would love to get one and try some "Hillbilly Tuning" and retire my NA before it retires itself.

I'm with you on that one! I'm still keeping my eye out for that $150 TD (or less) that I'm looking for. I'm not willing to pay more, because I need another car around here like I need another hole in my head

surfcam · Post by **surfcam** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 4:53 pm

I think the prime time to fish for turbo diesels is in the fall and early winter. A lot of owners aren't clued into diesels and have trouble starting them. If you have a wide net and grape vine you should be able to catch a few. It's actually raining VW parts on my door step with different people dropping parts off because they are getting out of the old 1.6. I'm an old fishermen from way back.

vwkook · Post by **vwkook** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 8:46 pm

I'm thinking the TD's are much more prevalent in CA.
I sure would like to find one on the cheap as well.
The caddy needs just a bit more horsepower for pulling the boat down the freeway.

surfcam · Post by **surfcam** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 9:31 pm

I have no way of knowing but I think your right. When pump prices go up the westend dealer in Edmonton Alberta sells 80% TDI's. Someone told me about a 97 TDI Jetta with 208,000km on it for 4500 just today. I don't know if I'm read for that kind of technology yet. At the wreckers you often see 10 to 15% of the VW are diesels with a fair amount of turbo's among them. I think one of are members made a run up here and hulled back a load of engines a while back.

MPalm · Post by **MPalm** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:31 pm

About the broken TDI's:
It seems like theres a lot of botched TB-jobs over there, based on the number of threads on that topic over at tdiclub.com.
If you do the tb right and change the oil at the right intervals the TDI will last forever and a day

vwtyp133 · Post by **vwtyp133** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:20 am

Have to agree with hagar that old Rabbit/Jetta diesel prices seem to be down... probably 'cause it's winter, but also because none of the VW diesels was eligible for the big US federal clunker-carnage program last year, so they're 'still around'. At any given time, there's always a certain % of the population ready to sell. That's due to marketing... part of what keeps so many folks broke!

Not the time for me to buy any more cars, hagar. I'd have to find another place to live, pay higher monthly payments (too much already), and then there's the divorce lawyer... ! So I'm actually gonna repair and sell off some of my current 'fleet', though probably not any of my VWs.

Happy days & good weather y'all.

J.R.
SoCal (no rain for last 2 days!)

Former VWDieselParts.com Forum

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