Rcbamm
Active member
- Joined
- Dec 29, 2012
- Location
- South FL
- TDI
- 05 Golf TDI BEW SOLD. 2015 Golf TDI VW boughtback. Own: 15 GSW TDI. 99.5 Jetta TDI
So I got hit and run by a drunk driver New Year's Day morning around 6:30am on my way home from work on the interstate traveling about 75 mph. I was in my 99.5 Jetta TDI and the guy must of been going well over a hundred MPH because he KO'd my rear end. I got a busted eye getting pushed up into the A pillar. The guy ran and the cops couldn't find him
Anyways my 99.5 TDI is not worth repairing.
https://goo.gl/photos/nSSjYDpVv68qDVwu8
However I am a VW fan and I currently have 3 Mk4 Jettas, (TDI, 1.8T, and a 2.0) I also have a mk4 Golf 1.8t and a 1.8t Beetle. All except for my TDI I have bought these cars for under $700. My 2003 Jetta 1.8t has 63k original miles and is currently getting a 5 speed swap, but I plan on totally tearing the car down and doing a full repaint and interior refurb. The Golf is also another long term project. The beetle is a donor parts car aswell as the 2.0 Jetta (5speed donor)
The 2.0 Jetta is a straight never wrecked or dismantled car. Got it from the original owner who was an old guy. I want to take my totaled TDI and swap the engine/tranny and fuel system into the 2.0 chassis. However I am worried about the wiring. For one the engine, aswell as my Jetta TDI has crank windows and the 2.0 has a sunroof aswell as power windows.
Now please, I know to search the forums and I AM, but to save a little time, if y'all have some advice on this swap and maybe some good links that you just can't find with searches that you could post here I would greatly appreciate it. I currently have the week off from work due to my eye injury from the accident but I honestly feel fine, my eye is just swollen pretty good, however I would like to try and do this swap this week.
I have the two Jettas which are complete, so I don't see this being that hard other than wiring and programming.
-Daniel
Anyways my 99.5 TDI is not worth repairing.
https://goo.gl/photos/nSSjYDpVv68qDVwu8
However I am a VW fan and I currently have 3 Mk4 Jettas, (TDI, 1.8T, and a 2.0) I also have a mk4 Golf 1.8t and a 1.8t Beetle. All except for my TDI I have bought these cars for under $700. My 2003 Jetta 1.8t has 63k original miles and is currently getting a 5 speed swap, but I plan on totally tearing the car down and doing a full repaint and interior refurb. The Golf is also another long term project. The beetle is a donor parts car aswell as the 2.0 Jetta (5speed donor)
The 2.0 Jetta is a straight never wrecked or dismantled car. Got it from the original owner who was an old guy. I want to take my totaled TDI and swap the engine/tranny and fuel system into the 2.0 chassis. However I am worried about the wiring. For one the engine, aswell as my Jetta TDI has crank windows and the 2.0 has a sunroof aswell as power windows.
Now please, I know to search the forums and I AM, but to save a little time, if y'all have some advice on this swap and maybe some good links that you just can't find with searches that you could post here I would greatly appreciate it. I currently have the week off from work due to my eye injury from the accident but I honestly feel fine, my eye is just swollen pretty good, however I would like to try and do this swap this week.
I have the two Jettas which are complete, so I don't see this being that hard other than wiring and programming.
-Daniel
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