Apart from rust, this is do able but don't expect it to last long in the salt .

*IF* you do all the various maintenance things and use Diesel kleen and remember to do the full glow plug cycle and maintain a healthy battery, the Rabbit will indeed start right up in the coldest of weather you'll experience .

Both my Brothers had these and loved them, one lived in Maine next to the ocean so it got really old yet always started right up using the twice cycle and so on .

Yes, they shake a lot, even when everything is *perfect* but usually a valve adjustment and IP timing check will reduce 80 % of the really bad shaking .

Slow but the 40 + MPG is very nice .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better