VW T5.1 excessive oil use

[Bryn23]

15-18k for an engine.... thats silly money, VW are kidding themselves

[Sunny43.5]

What happened to the good old days when you could ring up your local REPCO store and order an exchange engine for your car , you had a choice of short [bottom half only ] or long full motor with full reco head etc .

[Bryn23]

What happened to the good old days when you could ring up your local REPCO store and order an exchange engine for your car , you had a choice of short [bottom half only ] or long full motor with full reco head etc .

Those days are gone, i got a reconditioned head for my cortina from Repco

Life and looking after a carbie engine was damm easy.

these days too much damm red tape in life and overly complicated electronics in cars

[Sunny43.5]

But if you take away all the electrics and plumbing surely the basic stripped down internal combustion engine is not that far removed from the old days . I bet the car makers would not sell the components to rebuild engines like the old days as they are probably doing their best to sell ridiculous priced spare part engines complete . I certainly can remember rebuilding the engine myself for my first car a Morris Minor the only part I could not do was the crankshaft used to send it out for regrinding and then new oversize bearings . Then with my first brand new van a Bedford CFS which had the Holden 202 engine from memory when it blew I bought the long engine from Repco .

[LogicprObe]

Those Holden red motors were hard to kill.
What'd you do? Cook it?

My first van was a LWB CF...........second hand though.

[Sunny43.5]

Cook it was right apparently a design flaw starved no 5 piston from enough water .

[aSimpleLife]

Any suggestions...

While it's probably on the wrong side of town for you, Volkscare in Bayswater have only got good reviews on this site.
Kudos to Volkscare VIC- GTI 105k service

I've been there a couple of times and I can't fault him except it's a month wait to book in for a service.

And can you wait till after Wed before contacting him, I'm getting the replacement axle of my replacement axle done (not him) done then, and wouldn't want to get bumped down the queue

[LogicprObe]

Cook it was right apparently a design flaw starved no 5 piston from enough water .

My dream was to have one with a 253 V8.................but I ended up with a HQ Monaro with a 253 and a 202 Bedford!

[Sunny43.5]

The one upside of the old Bedford was that as opposed to Bedford in the UK here we actually got a local Holden 6 cyl motor and auto , made the Bedford a great drive as it would cruise so easily on the highway with loads of power {are you listening VWAustralia } nothing beats cubes .

[LogicprObe]

The one upside of the old Bedford was that as opposed to Bedford in the UK here we actually got a local Holden 6 cyl motor and auto , made the Bedford a great drive as it would cruise so easily on the highway with loads of power {are you listening VWAustralia } nothing beats cubes .

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