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Looking for new vw.



-- "Tyler J. Pease" <uberzip@attbi.com> wrote:
> I'm intrested in getting something other than my 8v
> for a daily driver
> because I do 90miles a day on my car currently.  I
> was thinking something
> like an old rabbit diesel.  How good are the engines
> in these.

My nephew had an '86 Golf diesel (pretty much same
motor) until last year. It had over 300,000 miles on
the orig motor (no rebuild). 

  I'm guessing
> they get great gas mileage and are pretty slow.  I
> need something slow
> because going that distance everyday I find myself
> speeding a lot in the
> scirocco.

Non turbo are REALLY slow.

HTH


=====
Mark Peele
1985 Scirocco, 1982 Scirocco, 1981 Scirocco, 1978 Scirocco, 1987 Golf GT
http://www.scirocco2.de/mark.htm
Direct Mail: SCIROCCO_GTX@YAHOO.COM
Need parts? try http://www.parts4vws.com/ (Potterman)
or http://www.germanautoparts.com/ (Adirondack)
or http://thescirocco.com

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