[Vwdiesel] low rad temp

[Patrick Dolan]

That's an unfair cut!!!!!  It's about -20C here now, with light snow and a bit of wind.  I have been working outside in the bush for the last 6 weeks, and came home for a few days to deal with broken vehicles and equipment (typical when it first gets cold).

Just for that, I think I will go to Reno to look at one job and Manzanillo to look at another before Christmas.  Wanted to take the TDI, but not sure there will be enough ground clearance for the roads in the mountains around Guadalajara. Too bad, because I want to do a long trip with the bigger turbo (VNT17), EGT delete, 2.5"TT turbo-back SS exhaust and Bosio PP nozzles to find out where mileage goes on the highway.  

Guess will have to drive a CTD.

----- Original Message -----
From: Shalyn Shourds <sshourds at flash.net>
Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008 11:12 pm
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] low rad temp

> I dunno.  My '00 TDI heater works just fine here in Ft. Worth, 
> TX    :)
> 
> 
> -Shalyn
> 
> --- On Sun, 12/7/08, Patrick Dolan <pmdolan at sasktel.net> wrote:
> From: Patrick Dolan <pmdolan at sasktel.net>
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] low rad temp
> To: lug1970 at yahoo.com
> Cc: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008, 8:56 AM
> 
> I have to comment that of all of the cars I have driven (with 
> water cooling), my
> wife's '03 Variant TDI is by far the worst for winter heating - 
> which is
> so amazing since her last A2 Jetta sedan TD was the BEST!!!
> 
> To make this thing bearable (hardly good, definitely no where near 
> great), we
> use a 1,100 watt circulating heater when parked, a 92C thermostat 
> (NAPA), a
> winter front (dealer gets them made somewhere, very nice part) and 
> it is still
> bloody cold.  VW just plain screwed up (again).
> 
> Pat
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Justin Bennett <lug1970 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008 10:02 pm
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] low rad temp
> 
> > Well I done some experimenting and have must now modify my 
> theory 
> > on the low temp issue with my tdi Jetta.  I messed around with 
> > heater settings and did notice that there is an almost immediate 
> > change in the temp gauge needle position.  Now that I think 
> about 
> > it my observation about coming up to temp after working on the 
> ip 
> > corresponded with another experiment I was doing with using a 
> > lower heater setting to keep the windshield cooler so that when 
> I 
> > parked the snow would not melt and then refreeze.
> > Justin
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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