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Engine Replacement Cost - 1.4 MK4 Golf

  • 31-08-2011 7:39pm
    #1
    TheElf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 148 ✭✭


    Hi, quick question, how much would you be looking at to replace an engine in a 1.4 MK4 VW Golf? I know this would vary from garage to garage but in what region would you be expected to pay? For the engine + fitting/labor etc.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,761 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    I'd say somewhere from €800 to €1500, this would be ofcourse a 2nd hand engine going in and not being done by a main dealer. Your hardest problem will be sourcing an engine that you can trust has not being abused and is worth the job of fitting.


  • #3
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    What year is the car, OP? Anything older than about '01 and you'd be better off buying another car. A better car, that is.


  • #4
    TheElf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 148 ✭✭TheElf


    Hi Confab,

    I've sent you PM!


  • #5
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    Its very hard to source second hand vag 1.4 16v engines as very few make it up the mileage without issues.

    Whats happened to your one?


  • #6
    muckeyw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭muckeyw


    I agree to its hard find a good engine that's not got something wrong with it I've recently just had a golf in to change a engine in and it was a 1.4 16v so I got got the engine out of the car and also the new engine arrived so but the two engines side by side and they looked the same (all most) the new engine had no egr valve so what I done was striped both engines down to just the block and switched the head off the original engine onto the replacement engine.torqued it up then timed it up, fitted it to the car and now have a engine which is running like new . Only problem is as stated before THE COST but still I'd say ur talking 800 to 1100 all in


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  • #7
    Nissan doctor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,223 ✭✭✭Nissan doctor


    muckeyw wrote: »
    I agree to its hard find a good engine that's not got something wrong with it I've recently just had a golf in to change a engine in and it was a 1.4 16v so I got got the engine out of the car and also the new engine arrived so but the two engines side by side and they looked the same (all most) the new engine had no egr valve so what I done was striped both engines down to just the block and switched the head off the original engine onto the replacement engine.torqued it up then timed it up, fitted it to the car and now have a engine which is running like new . Only problem is as stated before THE COST but still I'd say ur talking 800 to 1100 all in

    Between failing timing belt guides/tensioners and valve problems, it normally only the heads that give the trouble on these. What happened to your one?


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