[Vwdiesel] Age, Diesel History, and Bonus TDI Tragedy

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

  A good friend that stayed at the dealer after I left.  He was there 
through the "unintended acceleration" issue that literally killed Audi 
in the US market for a time.  He said one time he was under the hood 
when the car suddenly, unexplainedly reved up to about 2,500 rpm 
for a couple seconds, then back.  In spite of that he still remained 
convinced that at least 99% of the problems experienced were from 
people mashing the throttle when they intended to mash the brake 
pedal.  He never figured out what happend that one time but it was 
unrelated to any of the pedals.
  It's kind of like accidental, self inflicted gunshots.  Are you going to 
admit you were twirling your gun, being careless (well yeah) or such, 
or are you going to stick to the story that you were cleaning it and 
it went off?  
  My uncle slammed a Kubota RTV900 into a pear tree a year or so ago.
Swears up and down he was "standing on the brake".  It split a 20 
year old tree into 3 leaders on the ground!  Those things auto brake 
when you let off the throttle.  He obviously had the throttle to the 
floor.  99% chance the Toyota issue is simply a bunched floor mat 
under the pedal.  I've noticed that every time I get in one of our 
cars after someone else has, they apparently got in feet first and 
pushed because the mats are always shoved in and up.
  Oh, on oil.  Our dealer had one oil, Penzoil 10-40 which they used 
in the diesels as well.  Luckily I never did an oil change on a diesel 
or I'd have had to complain about it more than I already did question 
the apparent policy.
    Loren