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Why are these so cheap? The Volkswagen Touareg TDI V10 Diesel was an Ultimate 4x4 Offroad Luxury SUV when it debuted in 2004. Now they can be had for next to nothing, but I'll show you why...
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It's amazing that a car can be both over engineered and under engineered at the very same time.
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From the Philipines here. I own a low mileage 2004 gasoline 3.2 Vr6 touareg. An import from California.After replacing the vaccum tubes, purge valve canister, ignition coils and other basic parts, it's a solid and reliable car to drive. You feel very safe inside on long drives.
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The Phaeton/ Touareg were passion projects for Volkswagen’s then outgoing CEO. They were essentially Bentleys (and Porsches) with Bentley / Porsche repair cost and none of the custom hand craft coachwork or tuned suspension.
And for this reason, the absolutely insane maintenance and repair cost, is why you don’t see many first generation Touaregs on the road anymore - let alone the V10 diesel.
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When you are trying to drill out rivets like that, use a punch to knock the steel pin in the middle out first and then drill out the aluminium part. It's a whole lot easier that way.
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This was such a great video! Really enjoyed your content. As a Touareg owner, this was very rewarding to view. I love the detail you and Sage went into. Keep it up! 👍🏽
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The best thing to do for the vw window regulators is replacing them with threaded rivets. You can get the gun from harbor freight and it save hours the next time around
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Glad I found this video. I had been interested in one of these V10s and glad I steered clear after watching this
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These days regardless of the car brand, car ownership is crazy expensive. Seems like any and every repair is at least $800 regardless of the part and labor. I have learned how to do my own wrenching and every repair I buy the tools instead of giving my money to a shop or dealer. I find auto maintenance and repair cathartic but I have always been into cars since I was little. RockAuto is my friend. :D
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10:41 back in the day, the windows went up and down by an arm attached to a large dia gear, which was moved by a smaller gear attached to a powerful electric motor. 99/100 if the window didn't go up or down it was the fuse or the switch. The gears were steel, the tracks were steel, the arms were steel, nothing plastic in the whole assembly except for maybe the guides.
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Enjoyable video and story. Thanks to both of you
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Hey Sam, I enjoy all your videos which involve problem evaluations and solutions!! Man, You are hilarious and such a pleasure to watch! I’m wasting too much time with this ! Please keep these videos coming!😊
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It's cos the Japanese use metal scissor type regulators which are much more robust. I can't say that all of the Japanese manufacturers use this type of mechanism as opposed to the crappy plastic ones. Same thing that happened to this VW happened to the owner of an Audi S5. The crafty seller tied the broken cables together to keep the window up.
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Great job Sam without people like you there are lots of vehicles headed for the junkyard or worth far less due to a plethora of seemingly minor issues. Really sad to see how these cars are over engineered with not only expensive but proprietary parts. Which then are not made or rebuilt by anyone so you are down to repairing on a component level or re-engineering a part. That is not cheap even to do yourself the amount of time can be cost prohibitive. Many companies don't even repair themselves but rather simply swap an entire part or assembly. Even if the issue is a tiny resistor that could be de-soldered and a new one in it's place.
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Sam, I own a 2004 Touareg v6. The front passenger air shock blew at around 125k miles. An after market part was about $250 and it took me 8 hours over two days to replace it. The dealership wanted over $2k. Overengineered is an understatement when it comes to those vehicles!
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Just earned a subscribe for the nice channel I have never seen before - good stuff no BS even the ad part is somehow bearable
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I had a 4Runner for 12 years. 16 years old by the end. All windows worked as did the AC. I had a 5yr old 3 Series BMW. Struts, dash fan and both front window regulators needed replacing.
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Good to see your stepmom again, finally. I started watching you because of her. Seems like all the YouTubers are hawking the EcoFlow lately. 🤣🤣🤣
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With these cars it is all driver comfort at the expense of everthing else. I'm restoring an old car and temporarily drive an old Korean GM product, and though everything you touch feels cheap, it never lets me down, everything costs hardly more than a few dollars and it drives well enough to be satisfied with it. I've actually come to like it way more than I would have dreamt.
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Love these kinda videos mate awesome work
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@RamA-tn8io
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I once had a VW passat diesel. The passenger window fell down and I found someone that knew how to fix these without replacing the all mechanism. He told me "we gonna meet more in the future" and smiled. He was right 🤣 I did all 4 windows in less than 3 months! He explained me that these plastic parts don't survive the heat from the sun hitting the doors... "buy a Toyota" he said.....
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