[Vwdiesel] IDI vs TDI cars (was droppings #96)

[H.Hagar]

You're digging your heels in Hagar.  The 2003 Jetta TDI is nicer in the
following ways:

Val Christian ---    I am in LOVE with the 1984 Turbo 1.6L Rabbit. ---Being in love
means her smelly feet or bad breath ---does not mean a thing.

Quoting Val :  long term risk with repairs and old age service

Val you are right on target  ---- We should compare a 20 year old Rabbit and a 20 year
old Jetta 2003  TDI.

I am willing to stack  "Bunny Bondo" up against any VW for all around performance and
¨cost. -----(except airhead beetle).
 Total cost to get :   379.85 US -------   The Golf replacement TDI  price  22.791.16 dollars US
Like a lot of my DIY comrades --I got her for scrap (parts) --untested as is.  I was making
one Rabbit out of 4.  ---My cleanest dirty socks sort of deal.

The LORD was looking out for me again.  I feel sorry for the cute girl (Jenny) who traded it in on a
Honda Accord.---- she got hosed.   --- I do not know what type of perfume she was using
,but the Bunny still smells REAL nice. Interior nice shape --tires --perfect ---best part I
got a large yellow envelope with old bills.-----DIESEL owners get HOSED.

So why did I not use it for parts only ? ----- I fell in love with the handling and with her make-up
on she is cute.(Bondo)  Scott Kair talked me in to trying the turbo (great) and Loren told me to
give her a set of NEW nozzles.(wow).

Was it necessary to spend some money on "Bunny" ? to get her the way she is now ?
YES.  New battery --new brake cylinders rear-- new Caliper left front --replaced some
brake steel lines .   All was a piece of cake ---except the sandblasting of parts. It took
hours of blasting to clean those RUSTED rear brakes.

Total cost ? --- about 300 dollars Canadian.

I am as fond of electronics as anyone and the first signal I received was long wave radio
on a DIY  crystal set (1945) ---now I get signals in GIGA hertz every day. So am I anti TDI ?
not at all.

On the electronic path ---let me say that there are commercial interface available using
windows to control a diesel or anything ---click your mouse to increase fuel ?--- yep-.

Any process can now be controlled using windows.-----do not trash that old 486.

If you guys remember Anne of green gables --and how she hated being called carrothead ?
then you will understand the following.

School trip to Saltholm by cattle barge.    I was a redhead with freckles and when the
"Captain" was trying to start the diesel I was in his hair asking questions.
Sir what kind of diesel is this ?  --he looked up and said  --A GLOWHEAD.--- little did
I know at that time --that he was not making fun of me. It took a blowtorch on the head
to start it. That was my first meeting with a diesel. ( 194X).

Seen a lot of NIFTY diesels since ---like to see a   VW Touareg. diesel  .


Hagar.