Still thinking of changing car as wife needs something taller, thinking either a Jeep Grand Cherokee or a Sharan/Alhambra...seen a 1.8t sharan, not up on the engines in them but its 150bhp so imagine it can be mapped to 180-200 easy enough and all the usual 1.8t things apply. Anyone had one????

They have the AWC engine code. Dont forget they come in 2.8 V6 guise too

If i could afford the fuel for a 2.8 I would.....a cheeky 2.8 turbo sleeper bus would be amazing, but never gonna happen ! !.8t has then 6speed box so not bad on fuel on a run, and cheaper to fix than a tdi...plus I'm liking the vrs engine reliability and ease of fixing.

I personally wouldn't want one with 200bhp, bloody awful things to drive.

Don't expect anything to work on it either lol

Surely only as bad any vag from that time as far things not working? And would never expect it to handle that well, but some coilovers and anti roll bars might help. Would probably just lower it and pop some 18s on, and maybe get it mapped if I really thought it needed it.

With regards to issues the Alhambra/Sharan were by far the worst of all the models, don't know one tech who would volunteer to do some fault finding on one lol

My dad had two Sharans (1996 TDI 90bhp and 2000 TDI 115bhp), both relatively trouble free.

 

If you want one then I'd go for one with the 1.9 TDI engine and definitely wouldn't modify it - it's never going to be quick or handle well - you'll just make it less comfortable and harder to sell when the time comes.

Thinking of sticking with petrol whatever i get just due to being cheaper to fix and not much dearer to run really, especially as we don't do many long drives, we live in lakes so rarely a constant cruise.