[Vwdiesel] Drive it hard-Drive it easy?

[Tony and Lillie]

Well, I drive the heck out of all my cars, and have never had an engine 
related failure. This includes a 330K V8 Quattro (redline every shift, if 
speed limit permits). I also have never had a problem with carbon buildup. I 
do have an occasional encounter with the rev limiter, however ;-)

I do tend to recommend the same to others also. Maybe not all the time, but 
definately every now and again. For some reason, with clean running fuel 
injected engines, thinking seems to have changed from the "take it out on 
the highway and blow the carbon out", to a more conservative approach. I 
wonder if there is a misconception that low emissions means super clean 
internals?

 Interesting also, my co-worker with a 1997 Passat TDI drives it pretty 
hard, and haas never had a build-up problem. However, the new beetle I 
mentioned is driven very easily, and is probably plugged down to 1/4 of an 
inch, I'm guessing. I'll be posting pics when I tear into that one.

Tony Hoffman

----- Original Message ----- 
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Do Diesels ever need similar type cleaning?
>
>  I believe it was Scott that found out (got scolded) that if
> you drive your "early" VW diesel too easily though, your valve
> will gunk up on the backsides with carbon deposits.  In other
> words, drive it spriitedly once in a while and enjoy.  :-)
>  Our service mgr. alway said the ones that were driven harder
> had less problems and ran better than the easy driven cars.  He
> never knew just why but then they weren't all that old at that
> time either.
>     Loren
>