240 rebuilt Bio-diesel conversion?

I also wonder if these could be imported into Canada with no problems ( with the fact that they're a conversion and/or a German to US import)?

I looked at the site, and I see two major issues:

• Are these the anemic, unimpressive VW diesels that were sold in North America? If so, the wagons will be very slow with a standard shift, and unacceptably slow with an automatic. And they won't last as long as the gas models.
• Their description of what they do seems to imply that they don't address *any* of the issues that aging 240s have, from fan motors to wiring harnesses. Would you want to pay that much money for an old car, with old wiring and electricals? They don't *rebuild* the cars, they just *inspect* them, and replace whatever is actually broken.

I wouldn't buy one that had the NA Diesel engine, they were horribly underpowered and got only marginally better fuel economy. Given the cost of biodiesel, it would be cheaper to just drive a gas 240 and the performance will be much better.

Now if you get one with the intercooled turbodiesel motor out of a 760TD in it then you can get some decent power.

In either case it can be very difficult to find someone to work on these engines and parts can be expensive and hard to find as well. You might have the best luck looking for an old timer Volkswagon guy, the engines are made by VW and are closely related to the Rabbit Diesel motor.

I would have to see it to believe a statement like that. How near to perfect (or far from perfect) is a A Near Perfect 20 year old car?

Do you have a supplier of Biodiesel or recycled and converted vegetable oil? Or will you be doing it yourself.

If it were me I would buy a new VW diesel.