And not one vanagon....

[Vashon]

As Vw goes Maybe old is better. Never thought to see so many new vw in a bone yard.
www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/proof/2018/...alifornia/

[MsTaboo]

[Zeitgeist 13]

By the time this whole sad affair is over, any manufacturer using Bosch (and perhaps other sources of) engine management soft/hardware will be implicated. I have no doubt "scenario adaptablility" was a selling point for the iteration of ECUs in question. VAG got busted, but others will follow,as they all knew about this "feature". Such a waste, especially since those vehicles are amazing performers, both for power output and reduced fuel consumption.
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'89 Bluestar ALH w/12mm Waldo pump, PP764 and GT2052
'01 Weekender --> full camper
y u rune klassik?

[Steve M.]

...some conspiracy theory "expert" will decode a message in the color coded arrangement of the cars that holds the key to high fuel mileage.
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[Vashon]

[vanis13]

possibly in 25? years when thy become "classics" they will re-appear since they won't have to pass emissions.
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www.SuperVanagon.com - some stuff I make

[Yellow Rabbit]

I’ve driven past the TDI lot near Colorado Springs. It’s amazing to see all of them.

[Wasted youth]

Obviously by my following question, I am completely uneducated on the situation... But I frequently pass by a much smaller storage lot of Volkswagen recalled cars near Antioch, California and I was wondering...

Why were they not allowed to simply re-program or install different ECUs?

[Yellow Rabbit]

I thought I read somewhere that they can fix some and sell them but they are doing it slowly so as not to flood the market.

[campism]

Not really a Vanagon topic unless we're yanking those engines to put into our vans, right?
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'87 Westy in Wolfram Grey Metallic

[Steve M.]

Local Pick-n-Pull in Virginia Beach has a contract to hold any they get.
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There are seven days in a week. Someday is not one of them.

[Vashon]

[Kirsche Wasserboxer]

[gt1953]

All I can see is big blob of blur on the right and a plane on the left.
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Numbers Matching VW's are getting harder to find. Source out the most Stock vehicle and keep that way. You will be glad you did.

72 type 1
72 Squareback
({59 Euro bug, 62, 63, 67, 68, 69, 73 type ones 68 & 69 type two, 68 Ghia all sold})

[oprn]

This will eventually go down in history as one of the most idiotic attempts at cleaning up pollution ever done in North America. To take tens of thousands of the most fuel efficient cars ever off the road to be replaced by fuel hogging pickup trucks and SUVs that burn 3 to 4 times the fuel?


Stupidity knows no bounds!

[ach60]

I don't know when this photo was taken, but there were 3 groups of TDi being repurchased.
Early ones that can't be economically made to pass required standards
Ones that will require modification to vehicle & software to pass required standards.
Latest ones, that will require removal of bad software, but should not require vehicle modifications.
Group1 cars have all likely been scrapped already.
Group 2 & 3 cars are being modified, and resold.
VW is doing this in a manner that will not flood the market, so this will take VW a while to do.
Purchase of a Group 2 & 3 TDi will come with an issue that nobody knows whether or not the more frequent cycling of the emission system
(than as originally designed) will affect system reliability over time.
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Good Luck
Al

[oprn]

Do you have any proof they are being resold here or is it purely speculation?

[ach60]

[oprn]

Our postal code doesn't work and none of the ones that do show up are TDIs.

[ach60]