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got 2 to do and would rather only do them the once.. will they last aslong as the originals did or is it another ebay special that lasts 10 minutes if luck is on your side?
There is a lot a labour involved in changing them so my gut instinct is to go for a quality genuine item..............but there not exactly exposed to the elements and if the coolant is changed regularly I would doubt in the real world a cheap one would fail anytime soon. I have a GSF one installed 4 years ago still good.
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"For what you spent on that you could have brought a new car"
BUT I DON'T WANT A NEW CAR!
1995 S2 Avant, Volcano Black
1982 VW Golf Mk1, primer yellow, will be finished one day, maybe.
2003 VW T4 long nose X pack, (has become project)
Could well be fine, I'd ask who make's it. I got mine from eBay a couple of years ago and paid ever so slightly more than that for a Valeo unit identical to the orginal one I removed
1990 B3 2.0 80 quattro.
1992 C4 2.8 Avant quattro
1994 MTM RS2.
1998 B5 TDI quattro Sport.
2000 B5 TQS.
I ended up buying 2 matrix's from carparts4less (eurocarparts) and they were both wrong. Pipes that go through bulkhead are far to short.. Anyone got a link to a matrix they've successfully used???
RST, you were lucky then. I had a Nissens main radiator fitted to me RS2 and it lasted <10k miles, it may as well have been made out of tissue paper. This is the one after market brand I conciously avoid when looking for parts.
just had a genuine Valeo one fitted to my cabriolet - must be the way to go, the one that came out looked like it was the original one from 97, nothing in the history or service schedule to indicate otherwise so thats got to be a good sign
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