Originally Posted by
G-Magoo
no way, just get a mk3 2.0 and drive it. they literally run forever.
Yeah I know, I just want it to be at least a little fun to drive
I had a MKIV GTI and the transmission had been rebuilt more than 4 times (I think it was 5 or 6 total) by time I hit 45k miles. And I didn't beat on the car, it was 100% stock. I traded it in on my mustang at about 50k miles with the original tires on it. Needless to say my faith in both Reeves technicians and VW is not that great. That being said my dad still has his MKIV with over 100k on it and no problems, we both had 5spd 1.8T's.