finally got a daily driver!!!!!

Blackened302

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finally got a daily driver!!!!! 01 Jetta 1.8T

Wolfsburg Edition
1.8L Turbo
113,100 mi
5-spd manual
18" wheels
03 gli tail lights

it was DIRTY as hell, but after a few hours at the carwash, it's nice and clean in and out.









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starting a new job on Monday and i didn't want to put the freshly-painted stang through a 45min drive to and back.

 

95BlueStallion

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Looks pretty cool. Should help the gas mileage on that long commute too.

 

HISSIN50

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Great lookin little scoot. I bet it's really nice and comfy for the drive.

 

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my gosh when are people on this board gunna stop bying such nice cars!!!

its very nice

 

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Nice man! What year is that? I'm sure its the same engine I have in my 02 Audi A4. Find out if the timing belt was done.

 

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thanks, gents!

it's an 01 (mk4?), and i bought it from Nacho's (95vert) brother. i didn't ask about the timing belt--thanks for the tip!

up first on the list is replacing the passenger side cv joint, then an oil change.

after that, a drop and some HID's--that'll make it closer to what i'm envisioning for this nice piece of German engineering.


anyone know a good parts/tuning site for vdubs? something like our americanmuscle.com, stangsuspension.com, upr, boi, etc?

 

Grn92LX

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www.ecstuning.com

It didn't come with HID's stock? I love driving my A4 at night, HID headlights with custom bulbs, 6000k I believe. They have that bluish tint to them.

 

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thanks for the link, man!

no, no stock hid's i'm looking for a set of projectors (smoked, clean-looking) so i can throw some HID's in them and have a nice cut-off line.

also looking for a dipstick and a passenger side cv joint.

 

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nice...congrats

 

Nik_95Cobra

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Make sure you replace the tensioner, and water pump while doing the belt while you're in there. Every water pump WILL fail at one point. Every one I pull out is bad so I always make them do a pump too. For forums, you might try vwvortex, 99.9% ricky-racers there though, and the mk4 forum is 110% ricky-racers, but that's the only vw site I know of as far as forums. Cool DD though congrats!

 

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thanks, Nik--i was hoping you'd chime in.

the water pump is new, so glad i don't have to worry about that. only thing i can feel wrong w/ the car is the cv joint--hope to get that done next weekend.

 

Nik_95Cobra

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Awesome, I'm sure you'll love it.

 

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nice looking car, congrats!

 

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If you dont mind how much did you pay for it?

An old bud of mine had a 00 or 01 passat with the 1.8T, a guy I know now has a manual A4 with that motor, one of my cousins has a 0-02 jetta, one uncle has like 3-4 TDI's (one old old early/mid 80's one...well not a turbo but a diesel), and one of the wifes uncles has a 1.8t manual A4.

I would not mind getting a 1.8T jetta nice little cars, working on them kinda sucks...the turbos seem to be an issue at times, the guy with the passat went threw 2 by 100,000miles.

 

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nice car... but i hate working on vw's... problems like no other...

 

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got it for $3700--partly because of the salvage title and also because he just wanted what he owed for it.

lol, thanks Adam

 

Nik_95Cobra

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Wow nice price, they go for that rolled down here @ dealer auctions.

 

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Sweet car man. I would love to have that for a daily driver! You should definitely look into a chip. My bro has an '01 GTI 1.8T that he chipped ( brought the boost to 15 psi) and it's legitimately fast. Not stang fast but it pulls hard and sounds sweet Have fun!

 

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Good luck with it man because 01 is like the most troubled year for Vdubs ever. I've had to fix more problems on THREE of my friends 1 Jettas than I've had to fix on my car and mine is 13 years old and theirs is 7 years old. My cousin just had the car at VW and had $3000 of work done an it still didn't fix his problem. My friend Alex has gone thru 4 CV joints in a year on his, and the motor mount broke in my other friend Alex's 01, and the motor fell out off the car. Like I said, good luck, I love VW's but they suck balls.

 

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stprorolla49 said:

Good luck with it man because 01 is like the most troubled year for Vdubs ever. I've had to fix more problems on THREE of my friends 1 Jettas than I've had to fix on my car and mine is 13 years old and theirs is 7 years old. My cousin just had the car at VW and had $3000 of work done an it still didn't fix his problem. My friend Alex has gone thru 4 CV joints in a year on his, and the motor mount broke in my other friend Alex's 01, and the motor fell out off the car. Like I said, good luck, I love VW's but they suck balls.

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The cv joint was my brother's last straw. So Paul has many things in there new. All he has to do is change out the cv joint.

From what I recall: new MAF, new Coils, new v/c gasket, new water pump, new belt, and other crap i don't remember.

Should work out perfectly for Paul.