syncros on german ebay

Post by **jebiga41** » 19 May 2008, 20:03

quite a few for sale for the moment not my cup of tea but this sounds like a bit of a monster
http://cgi.ebay.de/VW-Bus-T3-Syncro-16- ... dZViewItem

Post by **toomanytoys** » 19 May 2008, 20:53

Well all that effort will turn the transmission into scrap pretty quickly as he has different sized wheels front to rear... and no decoupler that I can see... (my german isnt very good) in fact he says its got a sport visco... (it will be by the time its driven a mile uop the road)

Post by **syncro4wd** » 20 May 2008, 15:35

Simon,

Get your german together....he has 2 sets of tires and the car has a decoupler....

Erwin

Post by **toomanytoys** » 20 May 2008, 16:07

Where does it say that?? I didnt see it...
Did say my german wasnt very good!!!

Post by **Titus A Duxass** » 20 May 2008, 17:01

It doesn't say that.

Felgen R+H 9x16 vorn und hinten mit Bereifung 245/45R16. Reifen sind neuwertig (500km gelaufen

) - it has 9x16 front and back with 245/45.

Es sind auch 9x16 Ronal-Felgen eingetragen mit Bereifung 255/50R16

- This bit says that you are also allowed to run 255/50 on the same rim size. This a typical German requirment, you have to have permission to run different sizes of tyres and rims.

It used to be worse than this, earlier you could only fit certain makes of tyre unless they were "Eingetragen" registered as suitable for the vehicle.

I don't know about the decoupler (I'm not a 4x4 man) but you can have 2 or 4 wheel drive (switchable).

Post by **peasant** » 20 May 2008, 17:28

The interesting bit is that this seems to be an American car (still on US plates, you can just make them out in one picture) ...yet there is no mention of that in the text.

Did the US ever get 16" syncros?

Was the duty / tax paid on the import?

Why does it have a front difflock and no rear?

But most impotantly of all ..why is the steering wheel pink??

Post by **Syncro G** » 20 May 2008, 17:56

UMMmmmm, fake wood and a pink steering wheel, nice...if your on crack.

Post by **Boltze** » 20 May 2008, 21:05

Volkswagen delivered only some NATO 16" to the US, no civil ones. Some of the cars offered in the US are converted 14" or imported ones.

Post by **jebiga41** » 21 May 2008, 00:57

my german is terrible but google translate helps

Post by **taigagreen** » 21 May 2008, 10:06

He also says the car has front difflock but no rear difflock. Strange...

Post by **Syncro G** » 21 May 2008, 11:14

taigagreen wrote:He also says the car has front difflock but no rear difflock. Strange...

Think I read somewhere, most (all?) US vans never had difflocks when built as VW didn't want to get sued for someone crashing with them. True or not I don't know but assume all difflocks over there are retrofits or its an import its probubly slightly easyer to change the front diff for a locking one than the hole transaxle? Maybe they didn't get round to doing the rear aswell?