new transporters

nuffy Slammed & Awesome Dubber

94 posts · joined Sep 2003 · 6 Dec 2004, 12:46 pm

#275411

looking into a transporter, about 93-96 ish. anyone own one or have any probs with them. just dont know much about their reliability/parts cost etc.

hypo-vw Australias 1st 10sec street beetle (Jan 2007) 10.49secs@132m

2,151 posts · joined May 2004 · 6 Dec 2004, 10:05 pm

#275652

owning a VW repair business , I see lots of T4 transporters and caravelles .
if I was going to buy one I wouldn't look at anything before 1997 as the earlier models have lots of fuel injection problems and transmission problems . :bounce

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Green T4 Insano Dub Head

795 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 6 Dec 2004, 11:13 pm

#275671

hypo-vw wrote:owning a VW repair business , I see lots of T4 transporters and caravelles .
if I was going to buy one I wouldn't look at anything before 1997 as the earlier models have lots of fuel injection problems and transmission problems . :bounce

Ditto.....manuals seem to be Ok, but under no circumstane buy an early T4 auto....

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nuffy Slammed & Awesome Dubber

94 posts · joined Sep 2003 · 7 Dec 2004, 12:08 pm

#275871

no worries,
thanks for the heads up.

hypo-vw Australias 1st 10sec street beetle (Jan 2007) 10.49secs@132m

2,151 posts · joined May 2004 · 8 Dec 2004, 9:27 pm

#276765

even the manuals have diff failures and put a hole through the main housing .:bounce

Team

FASTEST ET @ WARWICK 2010 & 2011
FASTEST SPEED @ WARWICK 2011
FASTEST ET & SPEED WSID 2012
PB - 6.33@113.07(1/8) & 9.88@135(1/4)