Iffy English, but this guy is a bit peeved. Remember that here a car with such a big engine costs about 120k euros, or 80 000 pounds...
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pesadelovolkswageneng
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Hmmm, bit of a rogue eh?
As an aside: Seen the length of the gearbox on the thing!?:
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And I thought the bodged up BW35 auto plus series transfer box and Fairy overdrive on my Landy was a long contraption.
As an aside: Seen the length of the gearbox on the thing!?:
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And I thought the bodged up BW35 auto plus series transfer box and Fairy overdrive on my Landy was a long contraption.
The best thing was, I read somewhere he was trying to take it on the Dakar, on the back of a trailer, presumably to embarrass VW who do very well recently. He's got all the problems signwritten on the side of it, in PT and EN - 8 new turbos FFS!
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The V10 isn't in many other cars, I wonder if it's just the Toureg installation that is rogue, or if it's a dodgy engine full stop?
Well one of his main complaints is that the suspension keeps malfunctioning, so that's nothing to do with the engine (dunno, maybe it is these days!)
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Just to let you all know, the V10 engine is in fact two 5 cylinder Passat engines put together, just like the first 3.0ltr Triumph Stag and you know how bad that engine is.
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I don't think that's reason enough for blame. After all, many V engines start life out like this.Originally Posted by ScooByer Trade
Just to let you all know, the V10 engine is in fact two 5 cylinder Passat engines put together, just like the first 3.0ltr Triumph Stag and you know how bad that engine is.
The W engines that VW do (mostly reliable) come from 2 VR6 engines. These are in many VAG engines, including a certain Bugatti Veyron I believe!
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The flaws in the Stag's engine wasn't really anything to with it being two conjoined Dolly engines.
The main issues were a barely adequate cooling system and the anti-freeze available at the time which did nothing for corrosion protection. (copper rad, iron block, ally heads = corrosion and lots of sludge). Add to that poor mainatence intervals and procedures meaning its out-of tune more than it is in-tune (hail to the stromburgs and points ignition
) meaning the engine runs hotter than it should.
So, hot running and corroded and sludged up cooling system = overheating and warped heads.
Jaguar's V12 suffered the same overheating issues, but escaped quite lightly (with respects to image - maybe it was expected that v12s should overheat?
).
Timing chains stretch - a problem on any OHC vee engine. Even Jag's AJV8 suffered the issue of jumping sprockets from dicky tensioner guides (seems nothing was learnt there then ). Either way, bent valves were the order of the day should that happen. Again, its well documented that they should be changed at regular intevals, cars that suffered are ones where this information was ignored.
The main issues were a barely adequate cooling system and the anti-freeze available at the time which did nothing for corrosion protection. (copper rad, iron block, ally heads = corrosion and lots of sludge). Add to that poor mainatence intervals and procedures meaning its out-of tune more than it is in-tune (hail to the stromburgs and points ignition
) meaning the engine runs hotter than it should. So, hot running and corroded and sludged up cooling system = overheating and warped heads.
Jaguar's V12 suffered the same overheating issues, but escaped quite lightly (with respects to image - maybe it was expected that v12s should overheat?
).Timing chains stretch - a problem on any OHC vee engine. Even Jag's AJV8 suffered the issue of jumping sprockets from dicky tensioner guides (seems nothing was learnt there then
). Either way, bent valves were the order of the day should that happen. Again, its well documented that they should be changed at regular intevals, cars that suffered are ones where this information was ignored.
