2002 Volkwagen Gti Vr6 on 2040-cars
China Spring, Texas, United States
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Up for auction is a nice two owner Volkswagen GTI that needs the head reworked. I bought it in 2012 with 102,000 miles as a daily driver from the original owner. I drove it about a year and then the check engine light came on. I put a diagnostic tester on it and it came back with a bad camshaft position sensor. I changed it, reset the codes, and drove it about another month and then the check engine light came back on. I did some research online and determined that it was probably the timing chain guide rails were broke and the chain had probably skipped a tooth somewhere. I tore into her and sure enough the phenolic guides were broken and laying down by the crankshaft. I changed it all, put it back together and she ran like a new car. A couple months later I was on my way to work and the engine just died. I towed it back to the house and tore into it again and discovered the intermediate sprocket bolt had backed out and the valves were bent. I took the head to a local shop and had them rework it. I put it all back together, making sure I changed the sprocket bolt, put extra lock tight, and torqued it to the highest torque value. She ran great again. About 3 months later the same thing happened. The engine just died on me. I pulled it back apart and sure enough the bolt backed out again and the valves are bent. At this point I have bought a new car and would like this one to go to a good home that will get her back on the road. I would recommend to either have the insert replaced in the block or tack weld the bolt once it's torqued. Below are some items that have been replaced while I've had her. If you have any questions feel free to message me. New timing chain, timing chain guides, camshaft position sensor, coil pack, fuel injectors, battery, AEM cold air intake, spark plugs and wires, rear main seal, good year eagle GT tires with less than 500 miles |
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CEO says Volkswagen's buying spree is over
Mon, 03 Sep 2012
After adding Italian motorcycle icon Ducati to its stable and spending $5.6 billion on the rest of Porsche, Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn says he's done shopping for a while.
"We have enough to do at the moment in taking our twelve brands to where we want to be," Winterkorn tells German newspaper Handelsblatt.
BMW, Ferrari, VW cars use tungsten mined by terrorists
Thu, 08 Aug 2013Bloomberg Markets is reporting that BMW, Volkswagen and Ferrari have been using tungsten ore sourced from Columbia's FARC rebel terrorists. The extensive story focuses on Columbia's illegal mining trade and calls into question the provenance of the rare ore that is used not only in crankshaft parts production, but is also found in the world's computing and telecommunications industry for use in screens.
The ore is mined by the FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People's Army), and exported to Pennsylvania, where it is refined. The refined ore is then sent over to Austria, where a company called Plansee turns it into a finished product. Now, it's important to note that we aren't talking about the world's supply of tungsten here. In 2012, Plansee's American refinery purchased 93.2 metric tons of tungsten, valued at $1.8 million. That's peanuts, with the entire Colombian tungsten mining industry producing just one percent of the world's supplies.
That doesn't make indirectly supporting FARC any more acceptable, though. BMW, VW and Ferrari are all committed to not accepting mineral supplies from the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is also in the grips of a guerrilla insurrection funded, in part, by illegal mining. The same commitment would figure to extend to Colombian mining, but as BMW points out, it's difficult for a multi-national manufacturer to know where every item in its supply chain comes from. A company spokesperson says as much, telling Bloomberg, "These few grams out of the billions of tons of raw materials passing through the BMW supply chain are of no practical relevance."
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Fri, 18 Dec 2009Honda's Commercial of the Decade: "Grrr" - Click above to watch video
The mad men at Adweek recently voted for the Commercial of the Decade (Super Bowl commercials not included) and Honda took top honors over memorable ads from the last ten years by companies like Nike, Budweiser and Sony. That's not a big surprise considering Honda often puts a huge amount of effort into its on-air spots. However, the Japanese automaker didn't win for the commercial you might have expected: "Cog." Though Honda's famous commercial that breaks down a European Accord Tourer into a Rube Goldberg-esque machine was also a finalist, it was beaten by another Honda commercial called "Grrr" that's narrated by Garrison Keillor of all people. You've probably never seen it, but you can after the jump.
Volkswagen also made the list of finalists, but the particular ad chosen out of all the comical VW ads we've seen was unexpected as well. Most surprising carmaker with a commercial in the finals: Saturn. Who knew...