[Vwdiesel] IP acting strange, new symptoms

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/19/2006 10:41:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
val at mongobird.com writes:

> A new development...now the car smokes.  Soot out the rear pipe...not 
> clouds, but more of it than ever before.

  I've seen this happen when the compression is too high, 
usually from too thin a head gasket.  Doesn't answer your 
shifting/idle problem though.
     Loren