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Maybe not, though. The A4 platform sold so much better (especially in North America where both gas and diesel B4s were not big sales hits), and has enough special enthusiast type models that have a dedicated following (not just TDIs but also GTIs, R32, other special editions etc) that I imagine...

Nice, yeah all makes sense. Hard to see anything but upside in a tried and true platform with the BHW, especially if it's actually easier to get it bolted in, I was assuming the opposite. Didn't realize all those special parts are needed for the V6 in those C cars, I would've guessed some North...

^^ Good to hear that. From the outside it certainly looks like a job that would be difficult or impossible to do "right" without major disassembly on the B/C platform cars or a longitudinal mounted swap vehicle... But I guess if the new harness support is flexible enough to work it in and you...

Very cool. The C6 platform has a lot of appeal. What went into the choice of the BHW? Given any thought to running a 3.0 V6 out of an Audi or Touareg? Wonder if that would in some ways be simpler to integrate in that platform and particularly with the automatic? Seems like they are becoming...

Agree on the safety points. I am connected to some enthusiast groups for older Volvos since I've owned those cars for years.... Even today in 2025, the concept persists that a parent should put their 16yo new driver in a Volvo 240 "for safety". A good percentage of the time when you see a...

Having to replace the injector harness on a PD in a longitudinal installation is one of those jobs I (and we all) just hope to never have to do. I know someone who had one done by a local shop with a not particularly exceptional reputation in Livingston on a BHW car, and somehow it didn't cost...

Congrats! Great to see you make this step and growing ahead. Good news for anyone in your area to have your shop as a resource, and hopefully an exciting new chapter for you and the business too. Love it that you're making a gathering space/event for the community. Need more opportunities like...

My understanding was that it was not a space conflict with the aftertreatment devices in the exhaust and the prop shaft/rear end, but rather DEF tank capacity for US models meeting US NOx rules. But that's just recollection from a decade ago. It sounds like they did solve this, or at least...

Ah, well there's good info from @P2B that sounds like the answer.... Interesting, not a failure I have ever seen but of course that is with a small sample size. Maybe some cars get unlucky in how the wires happen to lay up in the harness and fail faster....

Or maybe there's a ground strap somewhere that is loose or broken? Kind of weird that every single function in the trunk lid is being disabled at the same time despite it being several different circuits, and it doesn't sound like any of those circuits are giving hard shorts to the other stuff...

Maybe they were gonna get some tips from Cadillac and Lincoln on how to get a big 90 degree DOHC vee engine to fit sideways in an engine bay. :p Or maybe some different offset config for the turbo to reduce height and use the space above the trans? It would be interesting to see what they had...

Ah that is a bummer. So they did a great job with engineering a durable and serviceable design on the front timing system, but then sabotaged the whole effort with that second inaccessible setup on the back? Why? I guess an owner trying to economize on running costs could get away with doing...

Hey, at least it's got a timing system that lives on the correct (accessible) end of the engine, and is a belt rather than a chain, and a "dry" belt at that. Seems like that alone puts it a few big steps ahead of a lot of modern gas and diesel engines, including the VW Audi diesel V6 and the...

Eh, who knows on that..... With such a small number of vehicles, and whatever the mechanical limitations of the AWD setup were, maybe it would have been just as likely that would have been one of the models they wouldn't have been able to come up with a satisfactory fix for (there was another...

That is interesting trivia for sure. I thought I remember at the time leading up to the intro of the new Alltrack (before dieselgate of course and when VW was still riding high on Clean Diesel marketing) that the diesel would be in the FWD Mk7 only and not be offered in the Alltrack or the...

Every time I see one of these Alltracks I agree it's one of the sharpest looking modern cars on the road, really one of the few designs of the last decade that catches my eye at all. I come close to wondering if it'd be worth trying one out. Tragic that the engines are a mess and so few are not...

Thanks for the reply. Well, that's a bummer to hear that it broke with the Whitbread flywheel. To my memory of reading here at least, that's the first confirmed case of that I'm aware of. So it seems like the heavy SMF is better than a light SMF but a DMF is probably the only real answer for...

Good deal. Sounds like the classic shattered 3rd gear synchro failure for the 012 trans when running behind a BHW with a single mass flywheel, but it's a little worrying to hear that yours had this issue behind a Whitbread flywheel since the theory has been that the extra heavy weight of his...

Yeah, always hard to see a nice wagon from the golden era come apart. That one seems worth fixing, but on the other hand, seems like nobody is taking it on. Wonder what the full cost of the 5spd swap stuff is these days with tariffs. Probably not pretty.

Has it always done this since you bought it or is it a new issue (it ran well when you first bought it but then this started to happen later)? What kind of history do you have from the last timing belt service? Do you know for sure that the injection pump timing was set correctly? Any other...

Still aiming to keep building some knowledge in this thread. Question: has anyone with the early style (sliding finger valvetrain, pre-roller) heads ever experimented with using 505.01 oil to reduce the tendency for the cams and followers to wear? Results if so? This design strikes me as...

I don't think the 2.5 V6 engines got smart actuators, at least not the earlier year ones, or at least none of mine have one..... But that is far from a definitive answer, just a guess from looking at the extremely small sample size I have here :p

Can you access a measuring block in VCDS that allows you to watch the N75 valve's commanded duty cycle and see if that is also fluctuating? That will help you figure out the next step for diagnosis. If you see the duty cycle % fluctuating from min to max, matching the movement of the actuator...

Makes sense. Gotta move on from even the best things at some point. Those guys are all familiar names to me as well.... Ran into Buzz just yesterday out at his salvage yard, where he was working on a very tired looking Fox Mustang and an old Mercury sedan of some kind, and Dick Shokey has been...

Haha, well if you're already regretting it before it even goes away, imagine how you may feel when it's actually gone... especially if you end up wanting to find another one as nice later on to get back into it! Not trying to necessarily dissuade you from selling (or to create a problem for...