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Fixedwheelnut
I think this is often down to lack of knowledge on the mechanics part. Dunno if they were ahead of their time, or maybe more, the car industry hasn't moved on much in the past 20 years? I mean, construction techniques and materials remain mostly unchanged, choice of components and operation again fairly unchanged, regular mcpherson struts on anything under 2000kg, 30mm spaced spot welds and heat sensitive epoxy bonded bodies, 0.6/0.8mm steel on everything etc.
Today confirmed there aren't many good mechanics out there, have one very inaccessible bolt on my engine that needs a spanner that has been bent in 3 distinct ways in order to even begin to fit. VW made a special tool for the job in the 90s, and was hoping one of these 'vw/vag' specialists would at least know of the problem, if not have the tool and be willing to earn some premium money to remove just one bolt using their magic vw spanner.
But no.
Rang about 15 of them, 13 of them didn't believe there is a vw engine thats fitted to a volvo and why don't I go speak to a volvo garage its not their problem, the rest sort of knew of the problem but didn't know how to tackle it.
IDeally need a commercial van mechanic who does vw t4 as they have this same inaccessibly problem but struggling to find one.