socal87
Drag Race Newbie
I'm the original owner of my 2012 GTI. I now have over 173K miles on the car, and a LOT of money on both mods and repairs over the years. I've replaced 3 water pumps, 2 intakes, 3 clutches, 2 speed sensors, and the ECU. I got rear ended about 4 years ago. The paint is in rough shape, there's a lot of road rash, but damn if the car isn't still fun to drive. It's been tuned since 6,000 miles, had the exhaust since 10K
Unfortunately that time has now come - whether to consider a heart transplant, or put the money towards a new(er) car. I've got some piston slap in cylinder 4, so at the very least I'd be looking at replacing the short block. To complicate matters, it's a CBFA motor, and I'm not really interested in going down the rabbit hole of trying to convert everything to CCTA, given how much would be involved - head, wiring harness, ECU at the very least I imagine. I have no idea how much everything will cost with a salvage motor - it looks like most complete engines are around $4k used, so assuming I have the reasonable things refreshed (timing chain, injectors, seals) I assume I'd be looking at around $8k of parts and labor. Forget new - I was quoted $19k by a dealer.
I do not have the equipment, space, or resources to rebuild the motor myself, so pending the quotes I'm waiting on, I'll probably be looking for a salvage short block, maybe a complete(ish) motor from California or New York. I live in the Midwest though, so shipping would be painful.
There are a few other things that need to be fixed eventually...I have bearing squeal in the transmission, the shocks are very tired, a CV joint might be going bad, and the head unit forgets my Bluetooth pairings every now and then.
I'm now 35, 11 years older than I was when I bought it. No kids yet though. Between selling it and fixing it, it's probably worth more to me to fix...I don't think I would get much for the car. We have enough saved up I could get a cheap used Honda or something, but at that point I'd rather just put the money towards fixing it.
I've been wanting to upgrade to a Mk7.5, but with the used car market and economy being the way it is, we really don't need a car payment.
Thoughts?
Unfortunately that time has now come - whether to consider a heart transplant, or put the money towards a new(er) car. I've got some piston slap in cylinder 4, so at the very least I'd be looking at replacing the short block. To complicate matters, it's a CBFA motor, and I'm not really interested in going down the rabbit hole of trying to convert everything to CCTA, given how much would be involved - head, wiring harness, ECU at the very least I imagine. I have no idea how much everything will cost with a salvage motor - it looks like most complete engines are around $4k used, so assuming I have the reasonable things refreshed (timing chain, injectors, seals) I assume I'd be looking at around $8k of parts and labor. Forget new - I was quoted $19k by a dealer.
I do not have the equipment, space, or resources to rebuild the motor myself, so pending the quotes I'm waiting on, I'll probably be looking for a salvage short block, maybe a complete(ish) motor from California or New York. I live in the Midwest though, so shipping would be painful.
There are a few other things that need to be fixed eventually...I have bearing squeal in the transmission, the shocks are very tired, a CV joint might be going bad, and the head unit forgets my Bluetooth pairings every now and then.
I'm now 35, 11 years older than I was when I bought it. No kids yet though. Between selling it and fixing it, it's probably worth more to me to fix...I don't think I would get much for the car. We have enough saved up I could get a cheap used Honda or something, but at that point I'd rather just put the money towards fixing it.
I've been wanting to upgrade to a Mk7.5, but with the used car market and economy being the way it is, we really don't need a car payment.
Thoughts?