History question, type 44
Doyt W. Echelberger
Doyt at buckeye-express.com
Sat Oct 20 00:38:27 EDT 2001
Hello Larry.............That matches my experience, also. In the USA, I
drove some examples of the earlier Audi diesel and turbo diesel, about
198?, before the model change to the type 44. They were dismally slow in
the lower gears, and showed up in repair shops with all kinds of problems.
I considered them terribly underpowered. Yet, I was fascinated by them.
According to the 1984-88 model 5000 Bentley manual, the diesel type 44's
only went to Canada, with a 2.0 liter 5 cylinder turbo diesel
engine, code DE for Canada. Nothing for the USA. It was rated at 82.9 BHP
at 4,500 RPM. Produced from March 1982 to July, 1985. Compression ratio
23:1, the same as the Jetta TD's of the same era in the USA.
There were special automatic transmissions for it, coded RDB, RDS, and RDJ.
The ones I drove (before the type 44) were so slow that I considered them
dangerous. I currently have a diesel Rabbit and several diesel Jettas, one
being a turbo. They are reasonably geared for their weight. The Jetta TD is
about as capable as a gasoline model for most driving conditions, and it
gets around 40 mpg.
Doyt Echelberger Ohio USA
82 Jetta D now a parts car
84 Rabbit D
85 Jetta TD
87 5ktq (gasoline)
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At 06:25 PM 10/19/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Just wondering, were there ever any type 44 diesels or turbo-diesels in
>the US?
>I know (test drove one once) there were turbo-diesel type 43's, but I
>don't recall ever
>seeing a US diesel type 44.
>
>LL - NY
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