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General Information => General => Topic started by: bhtooefr on January 11, 2006, 03:27:16 pm
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And any reason counts here. Seeing as my story is an indirect reaction, those count too.
My weirdest reaction involves the estimated number of miles (275,000 - the odometer's broken), the model year (1985), and the price I paid ($1,200).
EVERYONE always gives me a weird look, until I say "it's a diesel". Those magic words shut them up :lol:
Anyway, a very good friend of mine decides to tell her BF about my car. (Keep in mind, this is all what she told me.) He then told her that I'm "a f**king idiot for buying a car that old with that many miles, for that much money." She said those magic words - "it's a diesel", and he apparently went nuts. Apparently, it sounds like he's jealous about my car. Damn, and I'm working on stealing his girl, too 8) (no, I don't know him, and he hasn't seen my car.)
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"You car's on fire!", a serious expression from a guy who was next to me at a traffic light.. that was back when my car was smoking excessively at idle. I also had just a downpipe so the smoke was exiting both sides of my car.
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I often stop at a full-serve fuel station near my home, the only one that has good diesel. I normally avoid full-serve but their cost is the same as self-serve.
The first time I pulled my car in, next to a diesel pump, I proceeded to pump in fuel myself but an employee walked over and insisted that he do it because of the full-serve policy. He first asked if it's diesel, to which I replied "yes" but he somehow got suspicous because I wear hearing aids, which implies that I may not have understood him. He tried to put the pump nozzle in, realizing that it won't fit at all (my car was originally gas, still have the small diameter gas filler hole). I took over to pump it myself then he noticed the "Unleaded Fuel Only" sticker on my fuel door and grabbed my hands to pull the nozzle away. I had to exlain that the car had an engine swap.. dammit, feck off already!! :lol:
Now every employee at the station knows me & my car and they leave me alone to pump the fuel, despite the full-serve rules :lol:.. I had a nice conversation with a couple of them about the TD too :) the little VW and TD noise had them curious.
Late one night I pulled next to a diesel fuel pump at a random fuel station and proceeded to start pumping.. an employee inside the station remotely shut off the pump. He said something over the PA like "did you know that's a diesel pump?". No s#!t it is :roll: can't blame him for that though, there are some careless people out there who pick the wrong fuel pump.
Haven't had any of these problems for about a month or two now..
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"Sir, could you please turn your truck off. We can't hear you."
I get that all the time at drive-thru's. I've seen lots of strange looks as I drive to the window and have had a few good conversations about the car.
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"Sir, could you please turn your truck off. We can't hear you."
I get that all the time at drive-thru's. I've seen lots of strange looks as I drive to the window and have had a few good conversations about the car.
I got that once in my rabbit - It's gas and had straight 3" at the time.
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Mine is an '82 Jetta non turbo diesel just hit 130,000 klms and have had a few ppl come up to me asking if I want to sell it... I have givin' up on saying no to telling them I would sell it for $5,000.00... It's fun to see the look on their faces... Then I add "well I will just keep it then"... I don't know what I will do if someone takes that offer. Prob. just turn it down it took me 3 years to find this one and paid $2,500.00 for it when it had only 89,000 klms on it...
Here is a pic for reference...
(http://www.vwnuts.com/gallery/albums/userpics/mine.jpg)
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WOW.
THAT is clean, and low mileage... :shock:
I'd be afraid that someone WOULD pay $5,000 for it! I've seen somewhere that an 81 Rabbit diesel (with a new engine, a freshly redone interior, and repainted) went for US$5,100 at auction or something!
Just tell them no. Or, get a bumper sticker or something saying "No, this car is NOT for sale!"
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"Sir, could you please turn your truck off. We can't hear you."
I get that all the time at drive-thru's. I've seen lots of strange looks as I drive to the window and have had a few good conversations about the car.
you know, i've never gotten that one, but i'm always expecting it at any time. i haven't run an exhaust system other than the mkI downpipe pointed toward the ground since spring '04....
i always like playing the "its a diesel" card on cops. "you aren't planning on modifying this thing are ya?", "its a diesel sir", "have a nice day". :lol:
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I was doing a couple burnouts in a parking lot with my old beat down td and a cop showed up shortly after i was done (because i decided to stick around). Anyways he asked me if i was spinning the tires and I just bursted out laughing and I said sir its a diesel! and he just listened to the engine running (because i was leting the turbo cool) and he said O OK have a good day. That was the best a total look of confusion on the cops face :lol:
also i get lots of those sir pls turn off your truck (N/A diesel 2 1/2 straight pipe)
Jeff
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I got pulled over in my old diesel rabbit. When he got to the window, he asked if it was a diesel, i said yes. "I did'nt think they went that fast!" HAHA!! i had to laugh. i was clocked going 120kms in a 100km zone. I told him the speedo said 100-105 tops, and i did'nt think it was that fast, either. He asked if the wheels were bigger than the OEM ones, and i told him i put a diesel in it instead of the 1.7, and never swapped speedos. We talked about milage and gas prices, etc, for a few minutes, and he actually let me go! i could'nt believe it. He seemed to like the car, even though it was pretty beat.
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seems a lot of cops are into old dubs... more the younger cops. i was stopped once in my corrado pulling out of the mcdonalds by two. the corrado was on the floor lowered and they kept walking all around the car checking it out asking questions before they happily sent us on our way. bone stock outside, just lowered :lol:
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The following story didn't happen to me, but I thought it was really funny. It seems a guy with a TDI had to lend it to his wife when her Big Bimmer wouldn't start one morning. Anyway, she didn't like the (diesel) car, and was kind'a grouchy about it, and as she was late for work and in a hurry she came screeching off the freeway and into the parking lot, followed by one of California's finest. When he asked her if she knew she was doing 80 on the freeway, she scoffed and said, "In that 90hp diesel POS...I don't think so!" The cop was so taken aback by her attitude about the car that he let her go with a verbal.
Later on in her office, she was so relieved that she didn't get a ticket that she had to call her husband to tell him how she got out of the ticket.
She still doesn't like diesels. Must be a blond... ;)
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WOW.
I've seen somewhere that an 81 Rabbit diesel (with a new engine, a freshly redone interior, and repainted) went for US$5,100 at auction or something
when i was looking for a diesel rabbit, i bid on two such rabbits on ebay my max bid on the first was $5050 USD on the second was $5150 !! both times i was outbid by $50
i ended up paying $3000 for mine and it was in far worse condition
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"Sir, could you please turn your truck off. We can't hear you."
I get that all the time at drive-thru's. I've seen lots of strange looks as I drive to the window and have had a few good conversations about the car.
I had that a couple of times, now i tend not to go to drives-thru's :)
NA 1.6 Cone air filter and leaky exhaust, did you said LOUD? :lol:
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[/quote]I had that a couple of times, now i tend not to go to drives-thru's :)
NA 1.6 Cone air filter and leaky exhaust, did you said LOUD? :lol:[/quote]
What did you say bhtooefr.... :lol:
Thanks for the kind words bhtooefr... I'm happy I found a place that isn't telling me to drop it and stick 17" rims on....
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In wyoming, filling up with diesel in my friends TDI, all the guys in giant dually trucks were coming over and gawking at a diesel car... They knew all about diesels, but didn't know you could get them in cars....
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zyewdall, it seems that lots of people south of the border don't know that.
Next year (2007), it will be 30 years of diesel by Volkswagen!!!!!
Here in Canada, we always had a diesel model. In the US, no VW diesel in between 92 and 96.
52horses, what a beautiful jetta!!!!
17 inches wheels on mk1 and mk2's are way too big.
15's are nice, 16's are border line.
Suspensions are addictive. I have Bilstein TC's, Neuspeed sport and a 28mm Neuspeed swaybar and would'nt live without them. Maybe a little bit stiffer...
To contribute to this thread:
Once the guy that made the bill at this garage (they do every brand there), wrote that I had a 2.0 gas engine instead of a TDI!!!! :shock: :D
What a compliment. He said that it was very quiet for a diesel. :D
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After the timing belt job (eight hours of which were spent changing the water pump :shock:, and after which we found that my car needs new brake lines :evil:), MOGolf (from the TDIClub forums) remarked that my 1.6NA smoked less than some stock ALH TDIs he's seen! :o :D
Now, THAT is pretty weird. I guess it's not the REACTION in itself, but my car being so good in that respect :P
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Hehehe.
Brake shop didn't know that (at least my) diesel has to be revved to get the alternator to work :P
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Hehehe.
Brake shop didn't know that (at least my) diesel has to be revved to get the alternator to work :P
Yeah, mine too, what's that all about, anyway?
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On a gasser and newer diesels, there's a field wire that the car puts 12V out on to tell the alternator that it's OK to charge, so that it doesn't put a load on the engine while it's starting :D
On marine alternators, and the alternators that VW put in our diesels, the field wire circuitry is located within the alternator. When it senses that it's being turned at such-and-such RPMs (I suspect around 2,000 or 2,500 RPMs - don't have a tach on mine), it sends a 12V signal across itself to start charging.
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mortskeg; 52horses, what a beautiful jetta!!!!
Thanks she needs a little more tlc with the paint but it is the original only has some spots... I am going to have to break down and have her painted but not yet.. I'm too busy driving it..
mortskeg; Once the guy that made the bill at this garage (they do every brand there), wrote that I had a 2.0 gas engine instead of a TDI!!!!
As long as he wasn't working on the engine and calling it a 2.0 gasser...
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On marine alternators, and the alternators that VW put in our diesels, the field wire circuitry is located within the alternator. When it senses that it's being turned at such-and-such RPMs (I suspect around 2,000 or 2,500 RPMs - don't have a tach on mine), it sends a 12V signal across itself to start charging.
if you change out the voltage regulator for an adjustable one by transpo (about $20), it will excite the alternator and start it charging on its own. had one in my corrado, worked like a charm for $20 :)
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bhtooefr; MOGolf (from the TDIClub forums) remarked that my 1.6NA smoked less than some stock ALH TDIs he's seen!
When I pulled into a store a motor bike pulled in behind me and stopped to say that it was almost a pleasure driving behind my diesel compared to others he has driven behind.. good thing I saw him and didn't floor the pedal or it would have been a different story... :lol:
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Giving it a little pedal after I start it: $0.000001 (it doesn't use much fuel to do that, after all :P)
Getting the alternator out, putting the VRM in (I'm assuming it solders down? I'm not great with a soldering iron, but I'm not too bad :P), putting the alternator back in: $20, and plenty of my labor.
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two phillips screws, no removing alternator, no soldering. :) i did mine in about 5 minutes when i was on lunch at work.
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I work in San Fransisco, and comute there from the valley of the moon every day, about 100mls round trip. actually, mostly I work on Treasure Island in building 2 where they used to shoot nash bridges........ the on ramp to the west bound Bay bridge from the island has NO runup room, just a stop sign and your in 55mph traffic!!!!!!! ( did I mention that it's also Up hill to the center of the bridge?) of course the engines always still fairly cold by the time I get there......... one afternoon I 'm on the way home, foot to the floor, rowing the shift lever to get up to speed , and some dufuss in a porshe turbo pulls along side and starts yelling something out the pass window. he edges closer , now he's in MY lane still yelling out the side window.... I finally hear him : YOUR CAR!!!! IT"S SMOKING!!!!!!!! I yelled back : HEY DUMB SH@#! IT'S a DIESEL!!!!!!! then he slides back in the driver's seat were he should have been all along and floors it , cuts across 3 lanes to the far side of the bridge blowing blue smoke every where .............. Another time I was parked idling in front of the union office waiting for a bud when some dyky lookin girl ( short hair on one side of her head, a long braid on the other, 30 earrings ripped tshirt (no bra) nose ring heavy eye shadow plaid skirt w fishnets and redwing hitop work boots, nice hah?)( oops I forgot about the tatoos!!!!) rolls by on a skate board and starts making commets about how I'm a :x BAD person for not taking good care of my car, why does it rattle so much bla bla :roll: bla by now this vision of San Fran lovlyness has her face in my pass window :shock: ....... I said " it's a DIESEL , sheila,,,,,,, how bout a :wink: kiss????? then I goosed the thottle and puffed out some black smoke and more rattles from under the hood........ She was GONE down the hill in a flash. bye bye!!!!! :lol: :twisted:
And I've had to tell a few gas station guys " YO it doesn't run on Gas dude!! " ( isn't 'dude' Norwiegen for hey stupid????) :lol:
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Can anyone tell me more about the transpo adjustable voltage regulator that you gusy are talking and maybe a link.Thanks
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:lol: :lol: I'm almost delighted reading this strange stories! :o Because in Europe diesel cars are so common, no one gives a *** to the noise they make or find it strange about refuelling in the diesel pump. :lol:
Actually, here in Portugal they are selling more diesel passenger cars than gassers (and I mean little cars with 1.3L, 1.4L... blocks, not only big TDI's or CDI's!) :)
It's quite different, there from here.
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Can anyone tell me more about the transpo adjustable voltage regulator that you gusy are talking and maybe a link.Thanks
i found out about them through a corrado email list. try the rado guys and maybe they will know, i forget the part number. i will try to find it for you if you have no luck.
edit: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1429980
edit: http://www.digest.net/alfa/archive/v9/msg16819.html
edit: http://www.corrado-club.ca/forum/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=2;t=001371
"You can take your alternator to a dive like Canadian Tire and they will test it for you for free. The voltage regulators on the G60 should put out at least 14 volts. It is recommended that you find a "Transpo Adjustable Voltage Regulator" (part number IB373A), settle for no other part. There are some with a close number but they won't work properly. I'm told you set this at 14.5 volts and the car is good to go." - that is essentially word for word what i did on my G60. never tried it on any other car.
last summer, had the back loaded with cinder blocks. about 25 of them. the ass was on the ground, front way up in the air... but you couldn't see the cinder blocks at a glance from the outside. got some weird looks that day... and when i pulled in to refuel the gas jockeys gathered around with great concern over what i had done to my car :lol:
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:lol: :lol: I'm almost delighted reading this strange stories! :o Because in Europe diesel cars are so common, no one gives a *** to the noise they make or find it strange about refuelling in the diesel pump. :lol:
Actually, here in Portugal they are selling more diesel passenger cars than gassers (and I mean little cars with 1.3L, 1.4L... blocks, not only big TDI's or CDI's!) :)
It's quite different, there from here.
That's funny calling the TDI's "big". I wish we could buy little 1.3L diesels over here, but most of the diesels over here are 6 liter or bigger in pickups. I liked what an australian friend said when he first saw the size of our average vehicals "Boy, Americans sure have alot of insecurity about the size of their manhood"
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:lol:
No, I meant big TDI's as the 2.5L and 3.0L or even 4.0L (quite rare, this one = expen$ive). I wasn't referring the very common 1.9L.
And theres of course the small TDI's: 1.2L and 1.4L. The latter being very common too!
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Hey HP I should add the my other daily driver is a 1ton ford van w a 7.3 international v8 diesel in it ( 20 mpghiway)..... and I still have my old honda Zcar which has a 600cc (.6 !!!) :shock: engine. the diesels that I used to fix were more like 745- 855 ci or even my faves, the EMD's in the tugs I worked on : 145 or 243 ci PER cyl !!!!!! times 16 or 20 cyls !!!!!!! the turbo housing weighs more than a whole Rabbit !!!!!! :lol: I want one of those thunderstar 1.2 diesel sport bikes w the 1.2 vw tdi engines :twisted:
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Most of my friends and family are still trying to figure out why I fixed my diesel. When it broke they expected me to send it to the crusher. But I put a new crank bolt and head on it and away I go. 40 mpg.
It sure makes it hard to buy a new car when this one works fine. Sure it's a little rough around the edges. But the engine runs great. Unfortunately I probably should move on to something more suitable for my growing family. I've been eyeing the new (2004 or 2005) passats but $25k, ouch!!!
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Wait... you're eyeing the new Passats, yet you've got a Quantum? :?:
Anyway, get yourself a Vanagon, and do a TDI swap or something to it, if you need something suitable for your growing family ;)
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Well, I agree. But, the key feature of the 2004 Passat is the word "new", Not necessarily a larger size. And the wife wants the comfort thing...
The Quantum will probably go for another coupla hundred thousand miles... But It's been around the world a few times and is seeing some age. The rear swing arm seems to be attached to only rust... Stuff is deteriorating. Rear windows don't open. little things here and there that take time to fix.
On one hand it's fund to play with and fix/tweak. On the other hand, I have 2 little girls that are taking more and more time as they grow up, and I'm working on a masters degree in aerospace engineering. Not much spare time to fix this and that. Plus they have made significant advances in safety and engine technology and that would be nice to have too.
My other car is a 2000 Ford Explorer. It has been the most boring car for the past 5 years. All I got to do to it is change the oil. And it's 4wd so I can't even slide around on the snow.
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Heck, unless by "growing" you mean having more children, an A2 JETTA will be passable. I'm 6'1", and am COMFORTABLE in my A2's back seat. And, I'd imagine you could find a clean, non-rusted A2 more easily than fixing up your Quantum.
I don't know about an A3, though, and an A4 just absolutely sucks. I've heard the A5 is better, though.
The A5 Jetta is barely smaller than the B5 Passat.
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Oh no. 2 is plenty!!!!!!!! I'll start looking after this semester and see what happens. VW diesels are not real popular around kansas. Maybe I'll just keep the Q untill the wheels fall off...
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i always get people asking me if my car is a diesel, while i'm filling my tank with diesel.... i should tell them "no, but it gets better gas mileage if i mix half diesel and half gas, you should try it in your car" XD and i've got the please turn ur truck off, 2" down pipe+2 1/4 inch TT
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I just remembered the time I was in SF parked out side a theater in the downtown when some guy stopped next to the frankenbunny , just standing there looking v puzzeled :? He says " is that one of those 4wd volkswagons?????? ( the bunny's jacked up w 14" rims an' 24" tires w cabrio springs :) ) " No " I say " it's called a Jack rabbit , you know, the baja model ?? v rare not too many around today!" :wink: I'm SO bad :twisted:
Moosiah ///TomR\\\
I gotta post a pic some time :lol:
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haha i just went for a sandwich and the quizznos guy was outside smoking when i pulled in. he goes to me "you think maybe its time for a new car?" i just look back at the car, look at him puzzled "that IS the new car" :lol:
i wasn't offended, my car is pretty loud and ***ty-sounding with a cold motor and no exhaust system. he has a european accent, i thought he'd understand :lol:
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"that IS the new car" HA HA :lol: I gotta remember that one :D I should make up a sticker for inside the back window " But sweety this IS the new car" :lol:
PS my dayly driver for 20+ yrs was a 67 dodge window van.......... soon to be resurected w a 340 and 4spd auto........ the Moosemobile :)
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My other car is a 2000 Ford Explorer.
I am sorry to hear that :P
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well, yea. Poor decision from my youth... But I can't get rid of it now. It's paid for. So I'm planning on lowering it and getting some lower profile tires so it handles safer.
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Sell it, then :P
Or, part the thing out. You'd probably get more money doing that :shock:
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don't try to rent a trailer from u-haul!
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And it's 4wd so I can't even slide around on the snow.
More power will fix that :twisted:
I had a 78 Bronco. Stop on a snowy road, put in in 4 lo, mat it, and you'd do a 4 wheel drift into the ditch :lol:
Also dunno if they're weird reactons or not, but taken several 'diesels are slow' mentality people for a ride over the years, and they all get real suprised after some spirited driving. That's with a midly modded TDI.
I'd love to hand a few of them over for rides in Andy's twin or Gerry's 14 second TDI Caddy...those rides were the highlight of my 2005 summer 8)
Whenever anyone at my work has bought a new car, I ask about gas milage, then I get really sad & say I gotta get something new, my old VW's only getting 54mpg...usually get called a few names :wink:
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Whenever anyone at my work has bought a new car, I ask about gas milage, then I get really sad & say I gotta get something new, my old VW's only getting 54mpg...usually get called a few names :wink:
Evil, but VERY effective. :twisted:
Anyway, you don't want a new car, your new VW would be lucky to get 50, and that's driving about 60 MPH (so just under 100 km/h for you guys).
Wait for the Polo TDI if you get something new :D You Canadians are supposedly going to get it before us, maybe...
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This is usually asked by close friends and relatives...."why don't you just buy a real car?"..... :lol:
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But real engines don't have spark plugs... :?
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what is a real car? is that a new brand? (lol) the new tdi jetta gets 47 mpg and next time some one says get a real car tell them you going to buy one of thos 160 hp V8s that actually just dont get fuel mileage :lol:
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Just tell them that your car IS a real car, and theirs has spark plugs, and therefore doesn't have a real engine, and isn't a real car ;)
Edit: 69 posts. Heh heh.
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i needed to borrow my friend's truck to tow something after he sliced his hand and had to go to hospital...putting a wrench in our plans. his reaction was: "well, if you have a reasonable car i would let you take the truck.....but i don't really want to take your rabbit........ :? "
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i needed to borrow my friend's truck to tow something after he sliced his hand and had to go to hospital...putting a wrench in our plans. his reaction was: "well, if you have a reasonable car i would let you take the truck.....but i don't really want to take your rabbit........ :? "
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Reasonable? --well, not for towing. But more fun, yes. The first thing I did when my friend bought an old rabbit was go over to his house to see if I could borrow it to drive it around in the snow for a while. Wayyyy more fun than my 4wd truck. I'm glad I've got my own rabbit now.
I love honda civic drivers' reactions to TDIs... They are surprised that a TDI is so much faster than a civic in the mountains, even though the civic has 20 extra horsepower. (But the TDI has 70% more peak torque, at 1800rpm instead of 4800.....) But they're still smug in getting 40mpg. Then you tell them that you are getting 45mpg while going over mountain passes at 75mph instead of 50, and you could get 50mpg if it wasn't so much fun to put your foot into it...
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haha i drove his truck all night last night with a couple friends.
when i got back in my rabbit with my other buddy it went something like this:
"man this car is ***ty after driving the pathfinder all night... would be nice if the heat worked better......dammit i should have put my stereo in by now.... *pause* ...but i'd still rather drive this" :lol:
funny you mention having fun in the snow... we had a fresh dusting so thats the first thing we did in the rabbit when we got on the road, a little drifting both with ebrake and without. friend with big grin: "what is this, we rallying all the way home??"
when my other friend with the pathfinder wants fun, he'll get off his ass and tune the SR20DET 240 with all the pretty bolt-ons sitting in his driveway!!! i can't help but smile when that car is running well and i'm in it ...i should steal it from him and fix it.... :twisted:
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Sort of related story...
My bohemian friend was returning for a trip to the NW coast of BC but was not looking forward to the gas expense. His '86 RX-7 had made the trip several times before, but when he did the math and compared it to what my car would cost on the same trip, he began to seriously consider my offer of a trade. By the way, he hates VW's. He has had too many friends with ***ty buses. So he reluctantly traded keys and driving instructions with me.
For the next couple months I enjoyed driving a completely different vehicle at RPM,s that seemed otherworldly compared to my 86 Golf 1.6. I got aggressive in traffic again. It was fun but the trips to the pumps more than once a week was driving me crazy. I wanted my car back.
Meanwhile, Warren chugged over the mountains and through logging roads with a couple dogs in the folded-down rear of the Golf. My car has seen Alaska from the shore of Queen Charlotte Island. He came home through an early snowstorm that put most of the traffic off the road at The Crowsnest Pass and chatted about the car with a trucker using chains while they waited for plows to clear the road. After he sprayed the mud off the car he returned it with an offer to buy it.
He now drives a Landcruiser running on biodiesel that he produces himself.
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Ha ha ha :D
These are great stories!
People are absolutely wierded out when I tell them my Rabbit runs on BioDiesel! :shock: they are even more speechless when I tell them that I make the fuel myself ;).
I've had several VW Diesels and always did eventually want to run them on BioDiesel and now that I am, you'd think I was running my car on Kryptonite by the strange looks I get! :roll:
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Meter reader came today, while I was testing my car for leaks.
He said, "That car sounds like a real rattletrap, now, doesn't it?"
I merely pointed down at the license plate frame (I have a TDIClub license plate frame on my car). He got it.
:D
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Let me preface this by saying that my car is a dark blue. Additionally, it had been given one of its bi-annual washes just a day or two before the events described below, so it actually looked pretty decent.
So I come out of the store packin a couple sacks of groceries and there is this dude, a jock 20 years past his jock days, done up corporate style with some kinda light brown woolish overcoat on. He's yappin at some guy, got one foot on the sidewalk and he's restin his big arse on my trunk.
I walk up an say something like, excuse me thats my car. He moves, but keeps on yappin. I sling my stuff into the trunk and as I'm closing it say 'you ought to be more careful'. He says something that in tone and words was essentially 'didnt hurt your car none little man, now run along'. I replied, while sliding a finger along the trunk: 'Nah, you didnt hurt it, its a diesel' and I show him my now well blackened finger.
He was having a little trouble expressing his feelings as he twisted around and took in big black ass-shaped mark on the back of his jacket.
He and his sidekick are still standing back there when I climb in. He's actually trying to brush the soot off, so now its on his hands too!. I was a little pissed from his attitude, so i fired it up with my foot holding the loud pedal all the way down. My trusty 1.6 reaches deep, draws up a great slurp of the ever present puddle of blowby in the intake, and rips out a real wall blackener when the turbo spools. :twisted:
So, remember kids, there is more than one way to smoke a Lexus driver :P
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Lee, I'm gonna nominate your post for post of the month.
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I'll second that, LMAO!
That's a beautifully picturesque piece of literary work there :lol:
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LEE! yes! :D
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ROTFL, LeeG!!! :lol:
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leeg thumbs up
reminds me of the time i was pulling down some alley in the city and some passer bys were crossing the street at the same time, i was about 10 feet away and at a creep about read to stop when the one girl decided to get an attitude about nothing (i guess she was showing off for her friends) she said to me sicne my window was down "you better not hit me" in a ***y tone. so when i pulled out i put the go pedal to the floor and left a big cloud of smoke for them all to choke on. hehehe i love my car.
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OK,here's my experience.
I'd just bought my first new diesel, a 1984 Jetta GL with leather. It was a beauty. One morning, at a motel in Amherst, Nova Scotia, it was uncharacteristically cold at -16. I went out early to start the car and let it warm up while I packed. I'd just got back to my room when there was a frenzied pounding on the door. I opened the door to find a man dressed in a bathrobe and slippers (in -16 temperatures) screaming "turn your car off quick...it's gonna blow up !!!" I patiently explained that it was a diesel and they were a little noisy on startup. He exclamed "You mean it's SUPPOSED TO sound like that???" I assured him it was and he went back to his room shaking his head.
In 1998, I bought one of the first GLS TDI New Beetles and was repeatedly stopped at the gas pumps by an attendant screaming "Stop-Wait, you're putting diesel fuel in that car" :roll:
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"turn your car off quick...it's gonna blow up !!!"
That's great. :lol: I've been asked "do you think it's time to check your valve clearance?" etc, but I like the blow up one. 8)
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LeeG, You've so eloquently set poetry "up in smoke"! Beautiful!!
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LeeG reminded me of when I was delivering for Domino's 15 yrs ago in my '81 1.6 NA Rabbit. Another guy had a CRX and we both got our orders at the same time going initially, the same way. I was 1st out of the parking lot with a hard right onto the street, burning rubber with him damned near attached to my rear bumper doing the same :shock: . A 100 yards later we made the next right, where I gained some ground by drifting it :D . Then, at the next block we turned right again. I lugged 5th (purposely :twisted: !) in the corner, damned near looked like I burnt the whole tank-full in one shot, grabbed 2nd and shot (well, it seemed like I did :wink: ) to the next red-light. I was stopped in the LH straight lane when he pulled up in the L turn lane beside me. As he rolled down his passenger side window, smoke (mine :oops: ) rolled out from inside his car. He said next time I smoke him, how 'bout holding back on the smoke! I replied, it's the ONLY way I could smoke him in this car!!
The manager always gave us hell for not mounting our car-signs. Would he really want that kind of image?!
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XD
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Ahh, the lovely taste of petrodiesel and pepperoni!
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theres toomany to write up now,,,who DOESNT get the gas pump att. inside the station coming over the speaker saying "sir ,thats dieselfuel,not gasoline",,,,,yea thats what iwant sheesh,,,,truckers are ok but just say NO to trucker bombs and use those rest stops,,they are an epidemic or something,some people (pedestrians)look at the diesels at a stoplight, sounds like 5 rocks in a folgers can ,,,,remember in the early -mid 80s that car ad that had some hi end luxury car running at speed on rollers and wine glasses on the hood,all stacked up ???yea vw diesel NOT :twisted: ,,usually as a courtesy,,at the drive thrus,i jus turn it off so icanhear the speaker/order,,anyone ever pull up to the window,,after gettinfood,,and wingin' it in neutral(only if you have a buddy that works there+your pump is turned up,and you have a left hand side outlet exhaust),,want some dieselsoot with those frys sir??????yea not me either,never done that :roll: lotsa stuff,,,deo remember when we took our trucks,,put them in 5th at about 30 mph,,floored the brakes and gas,,and seriously fogged out a state road so bad approaching traffic was stopping??yea the smoke was billowing out ,,not much wind,,smoke cloud would roll out to almost tops to telephone poles,,couldnt see behind us for probably like 5-600 feet,and i was behind deo,,he had stacks so it would roll rite over me,musta done that for about a mile or so,,,,,,,,,we had a blast,,,was that waterfest 01,or02 or so,,,,,when we ran the trucks,,,,,wow too much :wink:
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But real engines don't have spark plugs... :?
exactamundo
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ever seen the vw print ad that says "how doyou think the snowplow driver gets tothe snowplow?",,,yea rabbit baybeee,,irub that one in to the guys in the truckshop
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Not a reaction to *MY* diesel, but...
A cow-orker of mine is anti-diesel. Don't ask me why.
She believes me that my car gets about 50 MPG, and that an equivalent gasser gets about 30.
However, she knows someone with a Ford Excursion PSD. Gets about 20 MPG hwy, she claims - that's about right.
She also says that she knows someone with a Ford Excursion V10 gasser. She says that because diesel costs more than gasoline, the V10 gasser therefore gets 25 MPG.
She says that it all works differently because an Excursion is a big SUV, and a Jetta is a compact car.
So, do the laws of physics change because the Excursion is three or four tons, and the Jetta is one ton?
*cough*bull****cough*
Keep in mind, these numbers are all US gallons, not imperial.
I mean, maybe the V10 can get 25 IMPERIAL if it went 35 miles per hour the whole way... :rolleyes:
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Well.... I have a small schoolbus (12,600 lbs) with a GMC 350 carbureated gas engine. I get about 6mpg on the highway... hence why it's been parked for two years. My friend has a full sized school bus with the International DT466. 21,000 lbs. It gets about 9mpg highway running on dumpstered fryer oil.
Soooo, I'd say that the arguement that diesel isn't an advantage for heavier vehicals, just doesn't hold up...
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Can someone explain me the mpg thing?? I'm only used to think in liters/100Km.
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mpg = miles per (US, not imperial, in this case) gallon.
It's the way we've always done it in the US.
And, yes, I think that L/100km is better, as using no fuel can be represented in that system without having to pull out the infinity symbol. But, I'm in the US, I've always been in the US, so...
FWIW, the average family car here gets 23 MPG, or about 10 L/100km.
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OK. That's clear.
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sounds like we gotta get together with theguy with the schoolbus and swap in a b series !!,,did anyone see spike this weekend,,it was either trucks,or extreme 4+4,,they had banks on there sayin diesel is the future,,,,,yea maybe our govt. should listen,,,hydrogen,freakin joke,,,every time i hear alternative fuel,i think of a big truckwith80,000 gross,,how is a freakin battery gonna move that????say YES to diesel,the original alternative!!!!! i know im not addicted to oil,,lol,,i drive 400 miles a week,,,mon thru fri.,,,usually tuesday iput in10-12$ at 2.50or so,,then again on friday about the same,,my fuelcost is under 30$ a week,and idrive 400 miles plus and theyrob for diesel at 2.50,,,hell i got some today,,it was 2.69,,soigot 14$,,that will last till thurs afternoon or so,,,,,,soagain,,say YES to the orig. alternitive,diesel!!