slight ot: factory jetta wagon 4-motion

[mkii_84 at yahoo.com (Andrew Wong)]

Alyyn, you should post on vortex in the MKIV forum
along with pics to make all of the people who want
4-motion jealous.  
--- JoshuaA.Conner@VerizonWireless.com wrote:
> Would not the drive shaft be a one-off piece?  How
> about the rear
> suspension?  I would bet your buddy got a test
> "mule".  My $.02
> 
> Joshua C.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Allyn [mailto:amalventano@sc.rr.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 2:41 PM
> To: scirocco list
> Subject: slight ot: factory jetta wagon 4-motion
> 
> 
> at cincy it came up in a couple of conversations
> that i work with a guy that
> has a jetta 4-motion wagon. everyone looked at me
> funny, but i knew i had
> seen the thing. so... today at work i ask him about
> the car and he tells me
> he ordered it with one of the factory add-on
> packages (vr6, 17" wheels,
> etc). it arrived and he paid for it (17k), and
> thought nothing else of it.
> at its first dealer oil change, the tech comes to
> him and asks how the heck
> he has 4-motion installed. they even verified that
> the ecu had the correct
> chip (4-motion).
> so as it turns out, it was a (one time) factory
> mistake. vw does not and
> never will make the jetta wagon with 4-motion (also,
> the vr6 is no longer
> available in that model). the dealers cant even
> order them if they wanted
> to. the dealership offered him 28k to buy the car
> back (he told them
> hell-no, naturally).
> some day i will take some pics of (and under) his
> jetta.
> 
> just figured i'd throw that out
> Al
> 
> 
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-Andrew Wong 
1984 Black Scirocco
1987 White Quantum wagon

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