How much does a rebuild cost?
About $1300 for a Type 4 motor which good quality parts not including labor. This is about the same price as buying an AVP long block from Bus Depot before sending your core back to AVP, again not including labor. By picking your own parts and machine shop you’ll end up with a better engine but be advised you’ll need to skills and tools and time to assemble it (well worth it if you have all three of those) as well as a trustworthy machine shops. Unforuntatelty the supply of “old German guys” at machine shops has dried up with the availability of parts and buses on the road. Not only that but those with Type 4 experience are even harder to locate. If you can’t trust your machine shop to do absolutely the best work available for VWs you’ll be better off buying a rebuild with a warranty. This means shipping your parts to a machine shop in another city. For most folks that simply want to drive and enjoy their bus, the AVP route is far more convenient as well as being as safe investment of
