[non] New Winter Car

[Benjamin Harder <vwtype53@yahoo.com>]

I am back to owning 3 cars...now the rocco's can rest
comfortably this winter in the garage.  :)

  Just this afternoon I drove home what will be my new winter
car/daily driver... I found a good deal on a '93 Passat GLX.  So,
now I own my first VR6!  The car is a Passat sedan w/ a 5-speed.
The one big drawback is that the car has 180k miles!
The good part about this is that I know the service manager
at my local dealer, and he has been doing the maintenance on that
Passat for the past 5+ years, so he told me *everything* about
it and what's been done/not done to the car.  After hearing this
car's life story, I was sold!  It has been well maintained...
I am still a bit concerned about the clutch and I hear that head
gaskets can be a problem on the VR's... so much to learn.
  I'm going to change the tranny fluid to the Redline MT-90, and
I am still debating about changing the engine oil to Mobile 1 syn.
With all the miles on the engine it might be worth it...
especially since the engine will be seeing higher rpm's than it's
seen most of its life.  ;)

If anyone has any suggestions or comments, please email me off-list.
Thanks...


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Benjamin Harder
86 Scirocco 16v
80 Scirocco
93 Passat GLX

http://www.geocities.com/vwtype53/

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