There is a beauty to fully mechanical systems, but i wonder how much of the anti-electronic bias comes from fear of the unknown?
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Quote from: TimpanogosSlim on January 05, 2014, 10:23:54 pmThere is a beauty to fully mechanical systems, but i wonder how much of the anti-electronic bias comes from fear of the unknown? It's the other way around. I have no bias against electronics most everyone on TDI club encourages people not to use mTDi because it worse. No guys you have it the other way around. If Im going to spend a massive amount of time making a reliable car this is the kind of bull5hit I don't want happening to me when Im in the grand tetons or something with nothing but my camping gear. There is nothing on a mechanical system that would fail that would make having a laptop easier to fix. That said I havent had any issues with my mk4 alh. For the record I wouldn't buy an already factory tdi car and convert it to mechanical inless the whole system on it was busted ie injection pump broken ecu scrambled and 1 or more sensor is bad.
Even when everything is running well the electronics can be kind of annoying. My least favorite bit is the fact that if you press the brake pedal too far it will cut all power from the accelerator being pressed. So not that my tdi is a racecar or anything, but that means no boosted launches or left foot braking. Its an economy car, but thats still a bit lame.
Quote from: whoabeats on January 09, 2014, 02:19:11 pmEven when everything is running well the electronics can be kind of annoying. My least favorite bit is the fact that if you press the brake pedal too far it will cut all power from the accelerator being pressed. So not that my tdi is a racecar or anything, but that means no boosted launches or left foot braking. Its an economy car, but thats still a bit lame.My 03 tdi golf if you lift off the throttle and apply a second time while still holding brake it doesn't cut the power. Found this out on vw race night at the local track.