More VW Diesel Knee-Slappers

The only safe thing to do, except your neighbors will laugh at you behind your back. Sorta like owning a vintage Citroen and driviung it wearing a disguise...

..between repairs.

< Replaced the normal stuff, waterpump,

Jeepster.<

Have you aske dthe Jeepster what it thinks of this relationship??

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Jerry McG
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You may have worked on some of them, and apparently failed to figure them out, but that doesn't mean that mine smokes. Even if it did, a little smoke at 50 MPG would still produce less pollutants than transparent exhaust at

25MPG. Still, I could care less about emissions, I have it because it is an economical vehicle. Your logic is flawed, your hatred of these vehicles is based upon a 'feeling', rather than facts. Most of these vehicles lived out their engineered lifespan, or died of poor maintenance. They were not meant to last this long, and had flaws, any company's cheapest vehicle does, just like your Jeep. Your first post states that a diesel Jeep would be a bad idea. Do you think that Mercedes Benz doesn't know how to build a good diesel? My smokey little 1963, 190DC returned 38-40 MPG , and still ran, without ever having the head or pan removed, when I sent it to the boneyard for burning oil at 874,000 miles. I would welcome a small displacement, Mercedes designed, direct injected diesel in a Jeep. Turbo would be a mistake, but a VW Corrado style blower might work. That Fonda crack was low. Shame on you.
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Paul Calman

I guarantee it smokes...

Smoke is smoke, stinking diesel smoke is abominable.

< Still, I could care less about emissions, I have it because it is an economical vehicle. >

It may be economical, it's still a POS!

No, my hatred of these things is based upon experience with thousands of th3em and is by now PATHOLOGICAL. It's based upon years of daily IN-YOUR-FACE "facts", such as replacing the 200th short block because the water jacket cracked internally, or explaining to some poor consumer (who'd believed the Company's marketing BS) why the rattling pile of junk was not only NOT getting 50+ MPG as he was promised, but further, wouldn't go faster than 60 mph in a headwind. Much less say with a straight face per the COmpany line that it was normal for the the body to be shaken to pieces by the powertrain; "that's normal with a diesel"...sheesh, FACTS? I got plenty 'o facts where these things are concerned!

If they didn't rust into a pile of red slag & dust within 5 years, they rattled themselves into the boneyard soon after when the poor third or fourth owner found out a new injection pump was going to cost twice what the pile of crap was worth.

< They were not meant to last this long, and had flaws, any company's cheapest vehicle does, just like your Jeep.>

Those things had more defects per hundred than any vehicle on the road at that time, look up the old JD Power IQS studies from the period. Try explaining that to the dealers or the customers, or better yet, to the Better Business Bureau Arbitration Boards! VW bought the pieces of junk back by the huindreds each year. Straight to the scrap heap they went.

The BEST was when they put that damn engine in the Vanagon around '83. WHOA, Instant buy-back! In the Southwest the oil got so corrupted and over heated in the things it would turn into a ball of latex in the oil pan. A new engine very 30k miles was common.

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Jerry McG

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L.W.(ßill)

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L.W.(ßill)

Speaking for myself and a large number of Vietnam vetrans, nothing could be too low for that bitch - any mention should be considered a compliment.

Reply to
Will Honea

There's a far better way...don't build them!

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Jerry McG

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Jerry McG

So in addition to having a grudge against Diesels, you also don't listen very well. It stated that the clean diesels of europe still don't meet the stricter emission regulations of the US. ...And it goes on to interview Gerhard Schmidt of Ford, who states "We are working hard to make it happen" when asked if Ford is going to start making Diesel cars. The diesel particulate converter is aimed at allowing diesels to meet US emission standards of the future.

You really need to face the fact that even though the diesel was invented before the gasoline engine, its closer to the perfect engine than the gas engine (the Sterling is even closer, but nobody's been able to effectively harness it for average driving.)

-bob-

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F. Robert Falbo

This latest generation of Hollywood traitors will no doubt soon be waxing about their new hybrids, and of course the leftist green lemmings will follow right along gladly paying Toyota and Honda dealers thousands over sticker for the priviledge of driving one of these death traps. Oh, and wait until they have to replace the electrics or battery packs in these things. Rube Goldberg would be proud.

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Jerry McG

Did someone say something?

emission regulations of the US. ...And it goes on to interview Gerhard Schmidt of Ford, who states "We are working hard to make it happen" when asked if Ford is going to start making Diesel cars. <

Gerhard will be working at the circus, follwing the elephants, after these things again fail in the marketplace.

< The diesel particulate converter is aimed at allowing diesels to meet US emission standards of the future. >

It'd be better used as a klie-detector at a Michael Moore film festival.

before the gasoline engine...., <

Whereupon even 19th century people dying of every conceiveable bacterial infection an morbid disease realized another pox on their lives wasn't needed!

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Jerry McG

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L.W.(ßill)

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L.W.(ßill)

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L.W.(ßill)

How about i drive it past your house in late August? In spite of the fact that Jerry admits he couldn't fix them properly, I can and my car doesn't smoke.

Reply to
Paul Calman

Quit being stupid. Everyone knows diesels smoke. You're embarrassing yourself.

Reply to
Shaggie

What a sad, bitter and twisted person you have become to let some bad experiences all those years cloud your objectivity. If you truly want nothing to do with diesels, then why do you fill your car with petrol delivered by a diesel truck? why do you eat food brought to the consumer by diesel truck? or drive on highways laid by diesel powered equipment? wear clothes delivered by diesel truck?

My husband is a truck driver and he just laughs at people who hate 'so called' dirty smelly diesels, and wishes they would put their money where their mouth is and do totally without everything that the modern diesel means. he thinks that about 90% of them would be dead in a month, and most of the rest would be in a verry sorry state indeed.

Susan

Reply to
Me Too

No shit.

Reply to
bllsht

You have posted enough obvious bullshit and ignorance to remove any legitimacy from the rest of your statements. A quick websearch shows that you are in the habit of calling names and ridiculing the opinions of others, rather than substantiating your claims. You have gone one step further and impugned my honor by implying that my sympathies lie with a pinko traitor. I will follow the advice of Mark Twain, and no longer argue with a mule. If you want, we can trade insults later this summer when I'm in your neighborhood. How about a showdown at the Bar-D Chuckwagon? Loser buys.

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Paul Calman

Smoke or not, we all know that piece of shit stinks and pollutes.

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bllsht

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