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bajorek
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Joined: May 25, 2003
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 Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 6:22 am Post subject: Front axle beam shot |
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Wouldn't you know it. After almost ten years of searching, my wife and I finally found the right Westy. We drove seven hours to pick it up (and seven hours back). I took it in to the local VW guru for an inspection and he found that the front axle beam was shot. He said it was rusty and was unsafe. He is now in the process of putting a used one on. The part that hurts the most, other than he has to keep it about two weeks because he is backed up, is it is going to cost in the neighborhood of $500. This on top of new front brakes, rotors turned, and a few other little things will set us back about $750.
On the up side, he did say the rest of it is in great shape and the engine runs really strong.
So much for our $3500 great deal- I haven't even added the body work it needs (rust holes in front wheel well)which will be an additional $900-1300.
Can you say money pit boys and girls? |
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ratwell
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Joined: April 26, 2003
Posts: 8717
Location: Victoria, BC
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 8:20 am Post subject: Front axle beam shot |
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Restoring a good Westy eventually costs the new owner $5,000 one way or the other unless the seller didn't know how much it was worth in the first place.
A new axle beam is no longer available and it would have been $500-600 on it's own... |
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OB Bus
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Joined: February 09, 2003
Posts: 2541
Location: Ocean Beach in Beautiful BLUE California
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| Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2003 11:48 am Post subject: Front axle beam shot |
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And for your $5K you have a complete, safe, reasonably reliable and unique vehicle. Our '69 was semi-complete, running, slightly rusty, had decent tires and cost us $1000. So far (without any one item running over $100) we have $800 into it with another $700 plus paint to go.
Keep the faith.
Larry in OB |
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