4350 km later, there is no doubt that our faithful Passat has been given a new life by a very talented car mechanic here in Ås, Lars-Erik at Ås Bilverkstad. Yeah!? What was wrong then? Well, in the late 00s, the overambitious German engineers at Volkswagen had set their sights on making a super engine with almost no fuel consumption but still a lot of horsepower and packaged in a passenger car format that ran on both gasoline and ethanol (which was so in about 15 years ago). Voila, they had given birth to the infamous "1.4 TSI Multifuel" engine that was produced in 10,000s of copies, if not hundreds of thousands... It is a small marvel of engineering with compressor and turbo and direct injection and 160 HP. At the same time, the displacement of 1.4 liters means that you can drive very economically if you control yourself. It's just a shame that they put a bicycle chain from a regular pedal bike instead of a durable timing chain in this otherwise very nice engine. The timing chain wears out and becomes stretched and this results in engine failure if you don't notice this in time and have it replaced. We were so lucky and got expert help at Ås Bilverkstad at a competitive price (stick å brinn Berners). Several other wearing parts were also replaced which has now given us many more years on the Passat from 2012 with 226000 km on the odometer.

He's talented, but he has too much to do and too little time.

Good service and hospitality. You get a lot for your money. 😀