Since I sold my 87 we've been looking for another daily driver. My wife wants a 99 Jetta but I've never delt with them before and am hearing bad things so I found these. I am leaning towrds the 95 which has a new motor with paperwork and has a small dent by the tail light and about a 1' crease in the dr side door, no biggie though. I just found the 94 and will go look at both today. The 94 has 150,*** with 10,000 on the rebuild.
http://sacramento.craigslist.org/car/336925713.html
http://sacramento.craigslist.org/car/339516852.html

 

why would you want the Jetta unless it is a diesel?
I would go with a Camry, many good used ones out there

 

My wife has wanted one for awhile, I'm not into them. I don't like the way camry's look, might be reliable but I want something that looks good too.

 

either go for a yota or honda, you will get much better MPG and I know I would want to get the best MPG for a daily driver. I have known two people that had jettas, not sure of the years, but one was a lemon, kept breaking down over and over again. the other one he did not keep it past a year cause he did not like it.

 

I hate to say this but a V6 4Runner is not a good daily driver vehicle since you will be lucky to get 15mpg in city driving. You already have 2 4runners.
Is your wife going to be driving it or you?

 

Everyone I know with a VW or Audi (same engines) have had nothing but trouble with them. They look ok, but are just not reliable cars. Plus they cost more to fix than a Japanese car.

As as the runners you found, may I suggest you find a 96 and get the 3.4L V6 instead of the 3.0. I think you would be happier with a 3rd gen.

 

I know i would like the 3.4 better but I only have the $5,000 from the 87 to play with right now. I have had a 91 runner and it was nice but the previous owner had abused the engine so I had to put some work into it. I would be driving i mostly. I did find a 96 runner with the 3.4 with 168,000 on it for $5,500 obo so I want to look at it on Wednesday if I don't find something else soon. We're down to 1 car right now as my formula has the new engine sitting next to it.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/car/338372028.html

 

I had a Jetta & a Golf GTI back in the 80s. They were pretty good, but the Japanese cars beat the pants off them in reliability & fuel economy. The only area the VW's were better was the steering was a LOT more precise (poor man's BMW)...

I've owned two Honda Civics & they were the most reliable autos I've ever had.

 

Yeah, the deal on the Jetta fell through anyway so we're not going to look at anymore of them. We need a 5 seater for the kids too.

 

I own a MKII (85-92) Golf.
IMHO the MKII chassis (93-99) are to be avoided unless yer a die hard VW fan. Swapping a MKIII motor into a MKII chassis tho is a different story

 

Ugh, leather. I get bad enough swamp ass with my cloth seats. Sad to see the first gen go.

 

I noticed in the first post with the runners for sale, the guy wanted to trade for a jeep.. that might euro ........LMAO.....sorry about that, i couldn't help it.. trading a Toy for a JEEP... That just makes me shiver!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

If you want a VW make sure you get the TDI. They have problems, but they get 50 MPG on the highway.

 

Junk, toyota or honda..there is no other.

 

Definently get the 3.4 over the 3.0 or 2.4 Just too much to deal with to get a simple power increase. If it were i, id get the 96, throw in dual arbs, a crawler box a lift 33s and skids and call it the ultimate D.D.

 

Haha, that's my ultimate goal.

 

Daily driver? I'll look into a good MPG car than the 4Runner since you already has at least one. Accord or camry still would be a very smart purchase.

 

I'm not too concerned about mileage as I was just driving the 87 daily and it got between 18-25 mpg's deoending on how I drove it. The 95 from above had rust all over and the engine was actually just swapped in from a different runner, so I was going to look at the 94 and it sold while I was looking at the 95.

 

Don't bash yourself for that, go to http://www.autotrader.com and you'll see lots of 2nd toyota 4runner.

 

Yep, done that too, there's nothing around here right now.