<VV> VW Diesel defense, sort of

[LonzoVair at aol.com]

Hey guys,
My 91 Jetta is a diesel... one of 935 ECOdiesels made that year. She's got  
283K miles on her, and still going strong. I use it as a "back-up car" when I  
need to go somewhere in bad weather or if the 64 sedan needs to sit for a 
while,  such as now as I wait for some leaf spring bolt parts.
The ECOdiesel has a turbo, but it doesn't have the turbo injector pump, and  
at one time it had a convertor of some sorts. It will cruise at 80 and I've 
been  able to squeeze 50 MPG out of it this summer (but NOT by going 80)... I 
think I  average about 42 mpg in the summer and 37 in the winter. I've never 
timed a 0-60  start, but it will get up and scoot when needed...
The non-turbo diesels were always slugs, though....
:-)
Later,
Lonzo
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 12/20/2008 5:29:32 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
JVHRoberts at aol.com writes:


Yeah, that was a pretty pathetic diesel. The new VW diesels are  lighter and  
a BUNCH more powerful. Alas, only 4 bangers...

In  a message dated 12/20/2008 2:32:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,   
corvair at fnader.com writes:

Actually  I had one of the last  German built diesel Rabbits which had a 
little  "tinkering" done to  it... it was nearly as quick as a gas Rabbit 
(though  it did put out  a nice cloud of black smoke under full throttle), 
got 55mpg  at  55mph, had awesome handling, and would cruise 85-90 all day 
long.  One  of the best cars I ever owned.

My parents liked it so much  they bought  one of the first American made 
Rabbit Diesels... it was  everything you  describe... excruciatingly slow, 
poor handling, and  barely got 30mpg. One  of the worst cars I've ever 
driven. We ended  up converting it to gas...  and it was still nasty.

The new TDI's  are very "undiesel-like"... I  wouldn't mind one at all... 
would make  an interesting Corvair  transplant...

Still prefer a Corvair   though!

Bill


George Jones wrote:

>Always made  me  wonder why they didn't change the name to Turtle when the  
put
>the  diesel in it.
>
>On the other hand, the new  diesels are  considerably faster than the old
>ones. Then name  could be  justified.
>
>George   Jones
>--------------------------------
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>'65 Monza Crown V8 Convertible
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>
>
>On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:36  AM,  <Richard.Gaffney at gulfstream.com>  wrote:
>
>   
>
>>The Rabbit diesel  couldn't even move the Rabbit, let alone  a heavier   
car!
>>There was a switch in the throttle to turn off  AC at  full throttle so the
>>car would actually move away from a stop   light. Accel time for 0-60 was
>>measured by a   sundial.............
>>
>>Rick  Gaffney
>>Corsa   140/4
>>



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