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gjshaw
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Since VW is buying back my Jetta sport wagon I have to get another vehicle to drive to work. I've looked at the ford sport trac with the 4.0L v6 but I don't know anything about that motor. Does anybody have any comments or history with this motor ? Does it have a timing belt or chain that has to be changed? I put a lot of miles on my work vehicle everyday so do you think it will last to 200,000 or 300,000 miles or more?
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http://www.underhoodservice.com/exploring-service-needs-on-the-ford-4-0l-v6-engine/
The 4.0 uses three timing chains but ii is not a interface motor one of the timing chains is in the back of the motor
http://www.underhoodservice.com/exploring-service-needs-on-the-ford-4-0l-v6-engine/
Thanks Gary
Why are you selling back the VW? I love mine. The numbers just didnt make sense and as you see I can't find anything that I would be willing it replace it with. (Its my daughters daily driver to school)
Will the EPA let you do that? Suppose the state doesn't renew your registration.
The 4.0 uses three timing chains but ii is not a interface motor one of the timing chains is in the back of the motor
http://www.underhoodservice.com/exploring-service-needs-on-the-ford-4-0l-v6-engine/
If 3 timing chains are not enough then 4 timing chains ought be just right...yeah right!
"There is also a balance shaft in the crankcase of engines used in 4x4 trucks, which is driven by a fourth chain directly off the crankshaft."
Why are you selling back the VW? I love mine. The numbers just didnt make sense and as you see I can't find anything that I would be willing it replace it with. (Its my daughters daily driver to school)
I have 180,000 miles on my 2011 and they are going to buy it back at twice what I can get for it on a trade. It's time for another timing belt change that costs 1300.00 when its all done plus all the other problems it's had , it's time to let them have it back.
I had an 04 Sport trac. It was a good vehicle for here in the north, but again, gas mileage was in the 15-17 range even with me driving it. It was worse with Leadfoot (wife) driving it.
A friend of mine is taking the offer from VW as well and looking at the Subaru Forrester.
I'm now driving a 2013 Hyundai Sonata that's got over 62,000 miles on it and it's never had anything done on it except oil and filter changes. Time will tell if it's as good a car as the Mitsubishi's.
So why not buy another VW? Seems like it has worked out very well for you!
I have had to do more major repairs to this Jetta than any other vehicle I've ever owned. It has cost me more per mile to run this diesel than any of the gas versions that I've owned. It was ok for first couple of years but then it went to pieces after 200,000 miles .
Dunno about the Jeep, I had one, was OK, but now they are on the list of 10 worst vehicles.
We had a Jeep Cherokee on one of our projects at work back before I retired and that damn thing fell apart piece by piece. Even the drivers seat bent back from just the pressure of people sitting in it.
A better name for it would have been Jeep- The Prince of Darkness! Everything electrical was screwed up on it too. The dash lights would work sometimes and the lights might work sometimes according to whether or not it was raining. The 4 wheel drive never worked right.
$1300 for a timing belt change? Wow, I changed four and parts were $350 each, someone is making a ton of cash for a 4? hour job. I worked on 2000-2002's. Maybe they changed something bigtime that drives the price up, but I can't imagine what.
The motors had a big change in 2009. When doing the timing belt I change the water pump, tension idler, seal and something else I can't remember right now making it cost that much. It all comes as a kit for 950.00 just for the parts and at 125.00 per hour for labor, there you go at 1300.00 for the belt change.
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So why not buy another VW? Seems like it has worked out very well for you!
I have had to do more major repairs to this Jetta than any other vehicle I've ever owned. It has cost me more per mile to run this diesel than any of the gas versions that I've owned. It was ok for first couple of years but then it went to pieces after 200,000 miles .
Ok, I thought I was a cheap buzzard. Complaining about maintenance after 200k is a little silly. I buy 2yr old cars and run them for 150k or so. As you have seen after 200k the cost goes WAY up. So selling it back is a good deal for you. Mine is a 2013 with less than 40k on it, and my daughter really likes it. Unlike gas vehicles, in GA diesels do not have to pass emissions at all.
Get a Jeep. 4 wheel drive, good fuel mileage and take a beating!
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You mean a Fiat.. Last month Fiat aka Chrysler recalled 1.9 million cars and SUVs over airbag and seat belt defects linked to three deaths.
This on the heels of a recall in April when 1.1 million cars and SUVs worldwide were recalled because of a gear selector problem that killed actor Anton Yelchin.
You want a Jeep.. Best to look at good used ones made before 2008 when Fiat got their got their fingers on them, and avoid anything with the Jeep name made after 2014 when Fiat took full control.
What about the new Honda Ridgelline. Looks pretty good.
I traded my 2007 jeep in on a new 2017 Ridgeline two weeks ago. My wife will be driving that . She loves it so far.
$125.00 per hour labor? Christ Peterbilt doesn't charge that much!! I've never seen a car dealership charge more than $45-50 per hour! I need to open my shop up as a business instead of a hobby for those rates!
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The dealership rate is 160.00 per hour. Its that much at all 4 dealerships from Orlando to Ocala. The 125.00 per hour is at a gentalmans import repair shop . All he works on is import cars like VW, BMW, Porsche , Jaguars , and more.
gjshaw: I liked to crapped when I found the 2002 TDI was going to cost me $750 every 100,000 miles for a timing belt so I started doing my own. Found a guy with a *-com? and the timing belt tools that he didn't know how to use so he let me use his stuff on my car, then he had a couple to do, and so it went. I really got tired of cleaning intakes and drew the line at cleaning turbos, we got rid of the car at 250,000 miles while it was running good. Darn car was a wreck magnet anyhow, wife was rear ended THREE times in Indianapolis going to work.
I've never seen a car dealership charge more than $45-50 per hour!
Back when I stopped wrenching cars for a living (1980) the going dealership shop rate was $50/hr.