[Vwdiesel] Re: Going offline Chelly Bennett

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

> Bunny Bundo   shure is quiet  -----Loren say he has to plug his ears ?  
> -----not in this one.

  Dad's pu is worse than my Rabbit but drive bunny bondo for a couple hours 
on I-90 at 75mph.  If your high frequency hearing is still intact, it'll be 
temporarily impaired after the trip, I assure you!  ;-)

> 
> That blunder must have cost GM; millions of dollars.?   A company with a 
> good
> diesel division ?  ----that is stupidity ---in my book.
> 

  It did several other things.  They went over like hotcakes for a few years. 
 
The price of diesel had been a fraction of the price of gas.  After the 
release of the 5.7D, the popularity drove up the greed factor on fuel as 
well as tax collectors and soon the price of diesel was just below gas, 
never to regain it's "considerably cheaper" status again.  :-(
  The failure of the 5.7 (not a TOTAL failure IMO) caused the non-diesel 
drivers (who then owned diesels) to be completely soured on diesels. 
They weren't smarter and probably not better looking than the average 
driver so they assumed all diesels were BAD.  Completely killed the 
market for the well built diesels out there.  
  A lot of problems happened from wrong oil, low coolant, one bad battery 
and then using a boil-the-water-away type coolant heater.  It was a weak 
engine so not treating it properly would fairly easily kill it.  Dad's had 
70K 
trouble-free miles when he sold it, other than the injector pump.
  Our VW diesels are also a "weak" converted gas.  They're just done a 
bit better and were a much stronger gas engine to start with.  If it were 
a ground-up engine I'm sure they'd have put a few more head bolts in it.
     Loren