Re: Volkswagon diesel

Posted by jdemaris on January 13, 2006 at 18:45:20 from (66.218.12.105):

In Reply to: Volkswagon diesel posted by Rich Iowa on January 13, 2006 at 18:19:24:

I had the Ranger diesel. Also had a full-size 1/2 ton Dodge diesel pickup way before they ever made one with a Cummins. Mine was a 77 or 78 and had a Mitsubishi diesel - Dodge only made it one year. I also had a International Scout diesel with a Nissan engine.
To answer your question about the Jettas, I've got two 1991s. Also have a 81 Chevette with 40K original miles on it with the Isuzu diesel. Also a bunch of G.M 6.2 diesel trucks and a Ford 6.9.
The Jettas are crude little cars, but built very rugged. One is my wife's summer car. We can't get to our farm in the winter without a 4WD, so the Jettas only get used in the summer. My wife travels a back dirt road that goes over a mountain, 24 miles each way. With that kind of driving she averages 38 MPG which is amazing. We've gotten a best of 51 MPG on the highway. It has a manual timing advance that operates like a choke. You just pull it out for cold starting, and push it back in when warmed up. I've been very impressed with parts from dealer. Priced reasonable and still available. I realize that most parts for any vehicle you can get aftermarket - but some I want OEM. The exhaust system needed replacing last summer. I knew if I bought Walker or NAPA crap - it would rot off in a year. So, I tried Volkswagen. It was still available, cost $160, appeared to be very heavy and perhaps had stainless in it, and it is lifetime warrantied from Volkswagen. And I believe it is warrantied because they expect it to last, not because they figure they'll never see me again. That's pretty good for a 15 year-old car. I tried to get factory pipes recently for my 91 diesel Suburban and they are no longer available from G.M. So, there is some contrast for you. The OEM pipes from G.M, are double-wall and twice as heavy, and last three times as long as the junk NAPA sells - but it is no longer available.
I recently put a head gasket on my wife's Jetta and was amazed at the cylinder walls in the engine. It has 225,000 miles on it and they look like new. I also checked all the injectors and they checked out perfectly - I was expecting them to be worn out. Shortly after, I guy with a repair shop downtown was fixing up another 91 Jetta with 400K miles on it. He was also putting in a head-gasket and that engine looked almost new inside also. It's hard to figure.
I suspect the new Jettas ride a lot nicer and act less like diesels - which I'm not sure is good. I know they are much more complicated, direct-injected, turboed, and use some sort of "exhaust scrubber" emission system that removes soot from the exhaust. I was reading that the system gets ruined if off-road fuel with high-sulfur gets run through it.

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