1986 Volkswagen Golf Base Hatchback 4-door 1.6l Diesel on 2040-cars
Piedmont, South Carolina, United States
Engine:1.6L 1588CC 97Cu. In. l4 DIESEL SOHC Naturally Aspirated
Body Type:Hatchback
Vehicle Title:Clear
Fuel Type:Diesel
Exterior Color: Blue
Make: Volkswagen
Interior Color: Gray
Model: Golf
Number of Cylinders: 4
Trim: Base Hatchback 4-Door
Drive Type: FWD
Mileage: 299,616
Starts, runs, drives. This would be a good car that needs tlc to make a daily driver or a more thorough approach to make a really good example of fun, spacious, and great fuel mileage car. I drove it in the fall and winter and I am not sure the electric radiator fan comes on. It has an air conditioning compressor on the engine but I don't know the condition of the system. The title is mileage exempt. The wipers didn't move last time I started it but they ran before just fine. The headliner cloth is gone and the foam backing is still there. The back seat has a fray in the fabric on the drivers side you may see in the pictures. The drivers seat doesn't quite match the others. It is kind of a gray/blue fabric seat and the others are gray/black fabric with black sides. The top of the door panels need to be reattached as you can see in the pictures. We replaced the brakes and the tires are about 80%. The car drives pretty good and fairly smooth to 65 which is the fastest I had it. The body is probably the best attribute for an older diesel. I didn't see any rust other than the surface rust in the paint scrapes as shown in the pictures the worst being above the rear drivers wheel. The clear coat has come off in some areas giving it that blue to silver look. I don't really know what mpg it currently gets because I drive about 5 different vehicles and was unable to keep accurate records but I have read of others getting 50 to 55mpg. Ask any questions and I'll do my best to answer them or if you want to inspect it call me. 864-303-3286 I purchased the car myself for a high mpg vehicle because of the condition of the body and interior, assuming the rest of the parts can be replaced if needed, but I can't find time to give it the attention it deserves.
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Enter Daimler AG. The automaker created a head-on collision test with a B-Class at their Sindelfingen test track that would lead to the pressurized refrigerant being sprayed on the engine. The result in 20 out of 20 test was that the refrigerant burst into flames as soon as it hit the hot engine, while Daimler says that R-134a does not catch fire in the same test. Another unexpected result of the R-1234yf test was the release of hydrogen flouride, a chemical far more deadly to humans than hydrogen cyanide, emitted in such amounts that it that turned the windshield white as it began to eat into the glass.
Said a Daimler engineer in a Reuters piece, "It was scarcely believable. The most complicated lab tests conducted using the most sensitive measuring instruments around found nothing and all we do is drive a car around a couple of times, open a tiny hole in the refrigerant line and the next thing you know the car is on fire." So Daimler said it wouldn't use the refrigerant, and it recalled the cars it had already shipped with R-1234yf.
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This short, minute-long spot covers the new vRS in a world of excess, where strollers ride on 26-inch wheels, lawnmowers feature V8 engines and ice cream cones are the size of toddlers. As things often go in these ads, the Octavia vRS draws the eyes of passerby that are seemingly use to things far more ridiculous than a reasonably priced Czech sedan. In reality, the Octavia should be fairly familiar to American buyers. It uses the same 2.0-liter, turbocharged four-pot found in the Volkswagen GTI and Jetta GLI, with 217 horsepower, and sits on the same platform as the Audi A3 and Volkswagen Golf. Take a look at the full spot, below.
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