[Vwdiesel] OT: advice @ buying diesel for friend

[raymond greeley]

Is this an opportunity to put together one of your project vw's and drive it, giving your guest the car you are driving.

 

You could certainly charge something and putting her in a car

you own and insure will be cheaper for everyone concerned

not to mention the guest will be driving a known entity that you could resume driving when she leaves.

 

I keep a cabby for seasonal driving which i can put into motion when guests  come to town. the difficulty is that the diserable viehicles are manual trans.,

 

ray
 
> From: LBaird119 at aol.com
> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:09:01 -0400
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] OT: advice @ buying diesel for friend
> 
> In a message dated 4/21/2010 7:02:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> tgott at hotmail.com writes:
> 
> > Then you have the oil changes and other maintenance in the year and I 
> > don't know how long the tires will last before the dry rotting begins as I 
> > doubt they would ever wear out. The fuel filters (gas or diesel) every start 
> > up period.
> 
> Not to step on your toes but unless she's putting a LOT of miles 
> on it in those summers, changing the fuel filter EVERY year is really 
> overkill, even changing the oil that often likely is. 
> On a gasser it'd be more critical than a diesel that doesn't build up 
> the acid. A few hundred miles and I'd probably change it every other 
> or third year. 1,500 or more and I'd seriously consider changing the 
> oil annually. I probably change my fuel filters about every 10 to 20 
> years. It's dry here so a full tank would help with the humidity issues 
> to the fuel since there's less room for surface contact and hopefully no 
> room for condensation. Also, it'd be sitting over the cool months. Good 
> for not aging the fuel as fast, bad for condensation. Then again we 
> all experience just the same thing, we just drive it and slosh it around 
> and into the filter on a regular basis.
> Tire rot? Again, it happens but I rarely see it except on tires that 
> are already old when parked. I've parked many tires for a few years 
> at a time and they get up and go just fine. I've seen more tire failures 
> from newer, cheap tires than old ones. Again YMMV. Blocking direct 
> sunlight goes a long way to extending tire sidewall life. That's why 
> you see all those RV's with plywood or cardboard leaning against the 
> tires. They get used a couple months out of the year and they don't
> want to let good (tread) tires get trashed from sunlight and rot before 
> they wear.
> Loren
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