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  • #16
    Originally posted by Golf Houso View Post
    Its not about blown motors, (which do tend to happen around 160k+ with the lovely timing chain guides etc.) but just general to medium servicing. Ever tried changing even just a lower coolant hose on your car? On a VR6 you have to drop the engine mounts out just to change some of the most basic things, which the 1.8T/2.0L/T guys take for granted, hence my point.

    They're all unnecessarily difficult and expensive to service because of the design, which isn't all to bright when you compare it to the FI motors. Its a massive compromise to have a few more horses stock for stock to have such a lower amount of reliability in the long run due to the heat in the engine bay and the difficulty in servicing due to the size/positioning of the motor in the bay.

    And they're not all that fast either, my VR6 is only marginally slower than one as I found out not long ago. I'm honestly not trying to bag the car out, I just think that all the 6's are flawed, and the R32 just happens to be the most so

    I'm just lucky my mate is a mechanic, otherwise I wouldn't be able to keep the car tbh.
    Never had a timing chain go...180k on clock or any other probs

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    • #17
      Originally posted by JVLR32 View Post
      Never had a timing chain go...180k on clock or any other probs
      If those km's were all city cycle, your chains would be incredibly noisy by now.
      80,000km 1997 MK3 VR6 manual for sale - www.vwwatercooled.org.au/forums/f23/80-000km-1997-manual-vr6-nsw-sydney-67658.html

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