Turbo seal / thrust bearing shot?

[stewardc]

There's actually a guy here http://www.vwdieselparts.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4868 who claims his diesel Rabbit will keep the oil clean for over 5000km. He's running super lean and it must be a real pig to drive.

[Doug]

Hey buddy, you wanna buy a bridge?

[stewardc]

Hey buddy, you wanna buy a bridge?

My thoughts exactly, but there are a number there who claim he does it. I think it's a huge sham. :?

[Doug]

Think about the SMART car with its modern 3 cylinder diesel massaged to the max, lighter than a rabbit and it manages to yield about 75 mpg. Now why would you believe some knob writing in pigeon English but still literate enough to use a computer? What is wrong with this picture? As P.T. Barnum said "There is a sucker born every minute". It seems that as soon as someone puts something in writing the suckers are lining up to believe what ever it says no matter how impossible. That is your editorial for today!

[jtanguay]

it's not possible to run a zero soot diesel... yet anyways...

thats why i opt for a bypass filter! many people believe changing the oil at 5k intervals will save their engine... little do they know that the oil's life could be around 15'000km or more depending on driving.  the main reason oil must be changed is the soot contamination.

lol doug... i'll take a bridge!  :roll:

[burn_your_money]

I get about 66 MPG in my mk2 Jetta... Imperial of course

BTW I want a bridge too

[jtanguay]

i'm just amazed at how the smart car only gets 75 mpg...

[stewardc]

i'm just amazed at how the smart car only gets 75 mpg...

Especially when the guy in the "clean oil Rabbit" gets 120 mpg  :roll:

[Doug]

I think that is a general average from what I have heard from the few locals. Maybe they do better like Tyler's Jetta (66mpg, that is amazing!) with a 100 mile downhill and a 50mph tailwind. Somebody was recently claiming that a trip to N. Carolina and back!! cost only $47 for fuel. I find that a strech unless they were able to buy incredibly cheap diesel somewhere. It is for sure that here at about a dollar a litre you couldn't do it. That would be 2000 kilometres/ approx. 1200 miles on 10+ gallons??? I don't think so! Probably lucked into some cheap diesel in Pennsylvania or West Virginia where taxes are less than here. No doubt they were idling the engine at just over 50 mph too.

[Kudagra]

That Hagar guy needs to go back and learn grammer. It pains me to read his stuff. Too disjointed.

[jtanguay]

give me a 6 speed transmission for a 1.6TD... and we'll see how much mileage that thing gets...

120 mpg is absolutely ridiculous... i've heard of 70mpg on an N/A before... but that's it.

maybe if you carbon fiber pretty much everything... take the seats out...

then wax the car for less air friction... (no seriously... that might be worth 1mpg right there...)