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I just turned over to 490,000 miles on my 2000 EV. To celebrate I finally got around to installing the external spare tire rack I picked up from a UK seller last year. good news both: of my bike racks still fit unimpeded.?Anyhow here are a few pics.?

Justin
2000 EVW 1.9TDI 5-spd Syncro
490k miles :-)

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My goal has been to get to 500k since I bought it from the original owner at 395k (w original VR6 12v eng still running and 2nd auto trans still shifting fine). I defer most of the credit to her for getting it to this level as she kept up w regular as well as irregular maintenance like a pro and kept great records with most service being done at VW dealers—at no small expense.

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Yeah Justin, it's one great story of the T4.? It has some weak places but more strong mechanical parts.? Your plug in of the diesel is only going to help.? Thanks for the pics, and keep talking about your maintenance.?

v/r,

Mike?

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Justin
2000 EVW 1.9TDI Syncro 5-spd
490k mi :-)

My next mods on this van will be in the performance dept. and both are ones I have some experience w in this van as well as on other platforms—not that this vans a slouch in anyway! Future perf mods: 11mm injection pump redux and propane fumigation.

this gets into the tech weeds right away so skip the rest of this message if need be. My plan is to put the 11mm injection pump back on there that I pulled off this past winter at a timing belt service interval and replaced w the stock 10mm one, as a test to see if my mpgs would get a decent bump—they did not, no gains noticeable (stock AHU IP has a 10mm plunger; but the decrease in power was noticeable! It had an 11mm IP from a a later tdi eng the ALH w A/T ?modded to fit an AHU eng on there for the last 80k miles and I swapped?it out this past winter for the mpg test.

The other mod I’ve got on the horizon is a LPG fumigation mod and something I’ve played around with on a T3 Vanagon also w a MK3 Tdi eng conversion some years ago (decades now:). That was a nice and relatively easy mod that gave a noticeable power bump as well as a slight (2-3mpg) bump, and I like to think a cleaner burn of the diesel fuel—smelled cleaner anyhow. It involves—brace yourselves—plumbing a line from the propane take to the air intake and introducing lpg into the combustion chamber. “Fumigating” a combustible had lpg into the motor via the intake air. Not something for the faint of heart. Lots more info online about this so do your research for more info. I only know diesels and obviously there are very few diesel EVs in NA. Anyhow I’ll keep the list posted on these mods and remember YMMV ;-)

I’m realizing I just hijacked my my own thread—sorry!
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Thanks Justin!? I love hearing about your TDI EV exploits and I miss getting all those details from a few years back.? It's still something that I would love to tackle when my '95 I5 gives up the ghost or one of my VR6s drives me too crazy trying to get parts.

Thanks,
Kent