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TECHVW ENGINE CODES

While we’d all like to believe (or at least hope) the engine in our VW is the original – the fabled ‘matching numbers’ description – the reality is the majority have probably been changed, or at least rebuilt, over the years. With even an early ’70s late model being half a

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