Hey. Man, living at home isn't fun sometimes (apart from the totally free ride imparted by the parents, of course). Said parents would like me to be able to get places myself without mooching their shiny, expensive, and above all, fast automobile.
But because of a little smoke (it's a diesel) and the sweet smell of diesel power (cuz it's a diesel) they don't want to help me out with this car. My mum's convinced that the engine's gonna blow up (the smoke) and I'm quite sure that there's just not enough air getting to the cylinders, possibly carbon build-up from the EGR if there is such a thing on this car.
The start-up time is actually acceptable, it seems to be at around four seconds or so which is fine by me, and could probably be helped by a new starter.
Anyway mother dearest says that the smoke (which I was too busy driving to notice I guess, as I didn't see very much in the rear view mirrors) is black, which I said is normal for a diesel, and then sometimes blue, which I said is normal for a 68HP diesel with three or four passengers, the choke three-quarters out and me revving it to a few thousand RPMs (I won't hurt it, don't worry). She says she'd rather just buy me a newer (1999 or so) TDI but I've heard that these VNT equpped and computer-controlled cars have more reliability issues than the older, simpler diesels such as this 1990 Jetta.
So I am just looking for more educated opinions than mine. Am I right about the air supply being possibly too low? Is there an EGR system on this car? Are the newer non Pumpe-Duse TDIs less reliable than the older TD-IDI cars? Thanks a lot,
Sayyad
Topic: Considering the purchase of a 1990 Jetta TD (Read 4704 times)
