Re: Roc turns 190,000 miles!

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <josiah@gsinet.net>]

I EXPECT my VW's to go that far... if my Rabbit doesn't (it only has another 100K
to go, I think), I'll be disappointed... of course, somebody threw a rod through
the side of the original engine, so it has a new one, but still....
    -Josiah
        '83 Scirocco
    '84 GTi
    '86 Scirocco 8v
    '87 QSW
    http://www.gsinet.net/~josiah

Alex Tomic wrote:

> At 09:00 PM 8/21/98 -0400, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> >Hehe... my old '83 had 360K miles on it when I finally junked it. It had
> >nothing wrong with it really, it was just tired in general. The body was so
> >stressed that you could feel it twisting when you drove down a dirt road. The
> >engine had about 108psi in all four cylinders, had no low end torque at all,
> >but some high end nut....
>
> Jesus! That's like... almost 600,000 kms! I thought only Mercedes turbo
> diesels were capable of that kinda mileage!
>
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