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From: hlh@security.UUCP (Henry L. Hall)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: That's Japan with a capital J
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Date: Thu, 21-Feb-85 22:42:54 EST
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	I have been the owner of a '74 Dasher, a '82 Scirocco and a '84
Scirocco and have found them all to be rather well engineered.  The Dasher
did start to have compression problems at 50K miles due to an intake manifold
bolt not having been re-torqued correctly after a valve adjustment (an intake
valve burned while running too lean, wish I had hydraulic valves).  To be fair,
it also had the cracked dash problem common with the '74, '75 Dashers.  The '82
Scirocco was traded to get the GTI 1.8 litre and the short ratio gears.
The 84 has 15 K on it and has had no major problems at all.

	No doubt that Toyota, Nissan, and Honda also put out quite a fine
product though I know from a dealership in my area who sells both Hondas and
VWs that they prefer to sell Honda because the dealer markup allows the same
profit to be made from selling one stripped Honda Accord as two semi-equipped
Sciroccos (air conditioning and a sunroof).


	Henry L. Hall

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