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I’m very familiar with domestic and Asian cars, but German stuff is new to me. I haven’t owned a vw since the air cooled beetle about 20 years ago.
A friend wants to sell me a 99 Jetta v6 dohc with just over 200k miles. New tires and brakes a year ago, which is when it was parked and not started since.
He said an oil leak would be over $2k to get fixed, but I’m handy and it’s $400.
We charged the battery up, but it acts flooded. Backfires then dies. After the engine is done spinning, there is a loud whirring noise that sounds a lot like a jet engine winding down. What causes that sound and what is it?
I can’t find the throttle body to try to open it up manually.
There are obvious oil stains on all the front pulleys, and I don’t know how hard to fix it would be. I’m thinking the timing chain and crank pulley has to come off for the fix.
The engine is not transverse either, so I don’t know if it’s rwd, awd or an odd fwd arrangement.
I left a charger on the battery and am going back to it tomorrow afternoon.
I want it to start so I can check for blow-by. The brakes have also rusted into place, it’s parked on an incline and won’t budge in neutral. Once I get it running, I assume I can put it in gear and try to force it to move.
I’m still puzzled by the jet engine noise after the car engine has totally stopped.
Any tips guys?
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