Andyinchville1
Veteran Member
Hi All,
Have a chance to buy a 1990 Jetta Wofsburg edition Diesel 5 speed tomorrow AM and was trying to look up some info in the forum and it looks like this is a gen 2 car and the forum only goes back a far as gen 3.
Anyways, being that there a lot of diesel gurus on here what do you think about this car?
Pics I received show a nearly perfect body, 5 speed Wolfsburg edition per the owner.
Been stored for 7 years and just fired up the other day prior to showing to sell.
They will not allow test drives (due to no tags and insurance) but said OK to drive up and down the driveway.
I would like to drive it obviously but thats their rules about not driving on road until sold.
Is this "barnyard" find the equivalent of finding a Plymouth Superbird except in VW terms?
Anything to know specifically about these cars to look for ... I'm guessing timing belt for sure since it sat 7 years before starting so who knows hold old the belt is
I think it has nearly 400K miles.
What is something like this worth ? I may get it if it sounds mechanically good just because it is a vehicle I assume without alot of electronics for the end times !
Thanks in advance for any and all help on this.
Andrew
Have a chance to buy a 1990 Jetta Wofsburg edition Diesel 5 speed tomorrow AM and was trying to look up some info in the forum and it looks like this is a gen 2 car and the forum only goes back a far as gen 3.
Anyways, being that there a lot of diesel gurus on here what do you think about this car?
Pics I received show a nearly perfect body, 5 speed Wolfsburg edition per the owner.
Been stored for 7 years and just fired up the other day prior to showing to sell.
They will not allow test drives (due to no tags and insurance) but said OK to drive up and down the driveway.
I would like to drive it obviously but thats their rules about not driving on road until sold.
Is this "barnyard" find the equivalent of finding a Plymouth Superbird except in VW terms?
Anything to know specifically about these cars to look for ... I'm guessing timing belt for sure since it sat 7 years before starting so who knows hold old the belt is
I think it has nearly 400K miles.
What is something like this worth ? I may get it if it sounds mechanically good just because it is a vehicle I assume without alot of electronics for the end times !
Thanks in advance for any and all help on this.
Andrew