The biggest issue (maintainance wise) with the 1.8t motor is to make
sure the timing belt gets changed before there is 90k miles on the
motor. It wouldn't surprise me if quite a few of these blown motors were
either tuned to death or the owner's didn't do the timing belt when they
should have.

Allan Streib wrote:
> Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> writes:
>
>> I asked my junkyard guy, German Auto Salvage in Boring, Oregon (yes, that IS
>> the name of the town) if he had any 1.8 turbo motors last time I was there.
>> He said he had plenty..all blown up.  No good ones.  He was quite critical
>> of that motor..said he gets em in by the dozens..all with catastrophic
>> failure.  I am not saying I know for sure that  these are undependable
>> motors, but when someone is in the salvage business and he tells me to
>> 'forget it'...I'll listen.
>
> I wonder how many of them had a "chipped" ECU or other mods.
>
> Allan
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