Vw quantum service manual

A Beautiful and very hard to find Volkswagen Quantum Sport Wagon that has had only 2 same family owners. This Quantum remained a California car until when it was then sold to a family member in Arkansas.

It has only , Actual miles and looks and runs Great. It has never been involved in any accidents and comes with a perfectly clean Carfax report which is available upon request. This Sport wagon runs as good as it looks.

The original 2. A very fun and sporty wagon to drive. The 3-speed automatic transmission shifts flawlessly as well. It drives down the road straight, smooth and tight with no rattles or vibrations. There are no fluid leaks of any kind or burning of oil. All instrument gauges are working properly including the digital clock. The only thing needed is the climate control box to be fixed or replaced as the cold air is mixing with the warm.

The factory Calahari Beige Metallic paint with painted pinstripes is mostly original and has a very nice shine. The paint is light thin in areas and shows some clear coat peeling on the trunk hatch.

There are also other normal imperfections such as stone chips, light scratches and a few dings but nothing significant. Really nice condition for 30 year old paint.

Custom ordered Coco mats were installed for the classic finishing Euro touch. Included with the sale are the original owners manuals, shop manual, original VW Quantum sales brochure, 4 keys and a few extra service parts.

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Compatibility information is not available for this item. Quantum Syncro, that is. It replaced an Audi Quattro, and did everything better. I loved the trunk space and the extra headroom, plus the rarity of it. If you spent your time, as you should, inside looking out, it was a near-perfect car.

Also perfect. My main complaint, besides lackluster mids fuel mileage, was the cooling system. I had to keep a sharp eye on the temp gauge when climbing mountain roads in midsummer. It seems that when they shoehorned the 5-cylinder in there, there was room for only half a radiator.

But if the same car was available with, say, a VW 2. Before I bought the QS used, I consulted the service manager at the local Audi store, an old hand named Hans with an accent to match.

He was impressed. It has a De Dion rear suspension!. Plastic tanks that separated from aluminum radiator cores, plastic water inlets that oozed and corroded the aluminum under them, making subsequent repairs almost impossible. Heater cores that self-destructed, steel heater hose tubes buried at the bottom of the engine that rusted away, cooling fans that lost their bearings.

Modern VWs have reliable cooling and heating systems. I think that could happen to any car, they all have one. VW has advanced to the middle of the pack of most reliability ratings I recommend true delta. I do my own work and, while every used car I have had has not been perfect, I have seldom been surprised at what I got.

A parent of a HS friend of mine bought a Dasher wagon new. It was a great handling car and an attractive, to me then, orange color, but the cooling problems and rust starting happening very early. The rust was from driving on the salt covered roads of NW Washington, D. If not…oh, well. I had a new 86 GTI in the late 80s—my roomate had a new 87 Jetta.

They had problems, I did not except a pinging noise. I then learned that VW had missed some tolerances in the wrist pins or connecting rods, and engine would have to be rebuilt.

Though car was under warranty, the thought of the incompetent dealer rebuilding the engine was not appealing, so I did nothing. I suspect they did not keep their VWs as long as I did. Other than wear items brake pads, tires and scheduled maintenance, here is a list of what went wrong: around at 5 yrs old, 75k miles, a pin hole in the upper radiator hose.

I taped up and limped home. At 6 years and 92k, radiator started to leak and needed replacing. In , with k, I found a puddle under the car—water pump, had it towed. I never moved up to the B platform, these were pretty costly and rare, though I did have a friend that bought one used, and he seemed to be pretty happy with it.

Maybe people buying this price level may have instead gone with the Audi my Uncle bought a around this time which he says is still his favorite vehicle …not sure how much more the would have been back then vs the Quantum.

I feel you may have missed the point of why the Quantum was not a huge success. It really was NOT the styling. They were fine if you liked the sort of no-nonsense, European look. Audi was just starting to experiment with the futuristic look, but the rest were considerably more plain and simple. It was more agile than the giant, round Sable and the rickety A-bodies. Another superior area was the interior, which did seem to have more quality plastics and upholstery, especially when compared to the mouse-fur coated Mercury.

The inside of the Maxima was extremely square and button-tastic. There were numerous issues, the most notable being a long trip that was cut short when the engine started billowing smoke, stranding us in a tiny town where the mechanic had never even heard of a Quantum.

Fun times, indeed! That 5-cylinder seemed to have lots of problems. Everything imaginable broke on that thing in the six years he owned it. Water pump, radiator, blower motor, exhaust, brake rotors — you name it, those were all replaced once or twice within a 4 to 5 year period.

Oh yeah, and it rusted with a vengeance as well. Actually, make that borderline zero maintenance. Oh, and one more thing, I never understood the front quarter window either. Both the Quantum and Scirocco had it, as well as the Golf and Jetta lines. An honest car with some interesting options. I still see a wagon every once in a great while. These two ads for models should tell you everything you need to know. Same warranty?

Not an apples to apples comparison exactly. The S is the 1. I just ran a Carfax on the pictures Quantum using the tag number to determine what year it is. Do you know when they updated the 1. VW increased the engine size from 1. For some strange reason, the Audi 2. I definitely know wagons used the 1. He bought it in and his now college-age son uses it as his daily driver.

Was this the generation that started self-destructing around 70K miles? With all kinds of mysterious electrical gremlins??

Or was that the newer, more curvy models? Good looking car with nice interior, good handling and lots of room. But very expensive for the times, over priced and short on power and reliability.

The best one over the long haul for durability, better MPG and a little lower price would have been the 4 cyl 5 speed model. The only point here with which I would quibble is the idea that this has aged better than the Isuzu Piazza. The Piazza certainly looks dated not surprising given that the design dates from what, —78? The wagon Variant? The Quantum has character, but is truly bleak looking.

I believe however that they were Chevettes underneath, so sort of the Avanti of their day. My grandfather had one, a with 1. I have to say that an american from , Caprice, LeSabre, hell even the Malibu with the fixed rear windows was a nicer and much more comfortable car to drive. Even the X-body Skylark had more power, was quieter and more comfortable than the Passat. You americans have been very lucky. The average american car from 50ss was something else than the cars we could buy.

Ascona 1. Passat 1. If you were lucky you were a cab driver that could write off the taxes of a slow MB or D. With this generation Passat VW definitely started shifting the model line up market. The pricing was definitely beyond that of comparable Opels, Fords and Japanese car of the time yet Germans just loved their Passats.

The Passat is to Germans what the Camry is to Americans. The value of Japanese cars sank much faster, and more. Japanese cars also changed their styling more often, look how radically the Corolla looks have changed in the past decades. Right on Johannes. My first car was a second generation VW Polo…. When that was introduced back in it was the first small VW that crossed the I remember the uproar in the car magazines projecting that nobody would spend that type of money on a small Polo.

Guess what happened? The Polos sold like hot cakes. Still do. As a matter a fact, I still see them as daily drivers. Owned by students and such. Often in that typical flat grim VW-purple, or flat dark blue. Over here those Polos have all disappeared. The only 80s VW that are still visible in daily traffic are the Golf 3.

In he bought his first all new car, a 94 VW Vento, 1. No ABS, but a driver airbag. My grandmother still drives that car. Though he did like american cars, and when I got my first one, which I still has, and other american cars as well, he loved them.

This degree of subtlety is almost entirely missing in the current models, I feel. Despite being a die-hard VW loyalist these have never appealed to me. Just the like the Golf sedan became the Jetta, then the Vento and after that the Bora only to go all the way back to Jetta??? For us the sedan was the Jetta the entire time—we never had the Vento or Bora names. They did, however, play games with the Golf name.

It switched over to the Golf nameplate for the Mk2, and stayed there for over 20 years, until switching back to Rabbit for the Mk5—but only in the USA, not in Canada. With the Mk6, it switched back to Golf, again. They dropped the Jetta name over here as it had a terrible reputation for being awfully square and mundane.

When they tried to move the car up market they tried a different name. Didnt work. People realized that it was the same old boring Golf sedan. In the US the Jetta had a much better reputation…at times. Fabulous car, one of the best everyday drives I ever owned. Quick enough, comfortable, cheap, solid, roomy and reliable. I wish I had one now. I remember driving frequently in thick fog, and for some weird reason I could drive faster than in any other car in those conditions, still keeping on the safe side.

It got sadly warped in a crash, hit from behind: her tail was plowing the tarmac, a neat fold in the roof, the whole structure bent.