2003 caravelle t4 2.5tdi

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2003 caravelle t4 2.5tdi

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I've been trying to source this motor and gearbox but nobody has it. Can u advise a suitable diesel conversion? I was thinking 1.9 TDI maybe? Also cost involved and where I can fit it? Thanks
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That will be anhuge undertaking and making the management systems talk to each other again will be massively challenging. I Suggest you keep looking for the right motor.
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Rashied 1974 wrote:I've been trying to source this motor and gearbox but nobody has it. Can u advise a suitable diesel conversion? I was thinking 1.9 TDI maybe? Also cost involved and where I can fit it? Thanks
Have you tried Matadoor Salvage and boss auto spares for the replacement engine? Whats your engine code?
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Did you buy the vehicle without an engine or did it fail?
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That's the same R5 motor as found in the Toureg right? Check out the thread on the 4x4 community forum. Theres a very well documented rebuild thread on there.
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Not rebuilt. Remove and fit another. And the two platforms are extremly different although the base motor is the same.
But changing to amdiferent engine with a different cylinder count is extremly hard these days. There are several other controllers that wants to talk to the engine module and they use canbus and are all coded to each other. Unless you have massive knowledge and a huge amount of money and time it is a huge undertaking to make all these things talk to each other again. And if they don't nothing will work, not the radio, not the aircon, not abs, not traction control, not gearbox becuase they all have to speak to each other to work. Ok I exxagrate maybe the radio will work.
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