[Vwdiesel] Blow by test?

[Joe]

Yes, a prime example of that is the new Ford Transit Connect... Available
everywhere else on the planet for decades with a diesel and a stick.  Only
available here now with a gas engine and automatic.  Sometimes I really hate
living here.

http://www.ford.co.uk/Commercialvehicles/NewTransitConnect

 

-----Original Message-----
From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
Behalf Of William J Toensing
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 6:17 AM
To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
Subject: [Vwdiesel] Blow by test?

I previously lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota moving to California in 1969 at
age 36. In addition to the cold winters, the effect of the salted winter
streets destroying cars of the '50s & '60's motivated me to move to Calif.
Frequent trips back to Minn. in the '70s showed that cars from the '70's &
early '80's didn't fare any better. The amazing thing I found in Calif. was
that '50's cars highly prone to rust in Minn. in less than 2 years are still
seen rust free today in Calif. The worst cars of the '50's were 1957 & '58
Plymouths & Dodges, rusting out in less than a year. Out here, the sun will
bake the interior upholstery & rubber weather stripping whereas back in the
rust belt mechanical parts & upholstery will
often survive past the time the car is junked out. Therefore, if someone
could figure out a way of bringing good upholstery & mechanical parts
including engines out to the west coast & return with rust free bodies,
fenders, doors, etc. I can see the possibility of someone making money at
this. It pains me to see rust free cars going to the crusher that could be
more cheaply restored than rebuilding the bodies of rust buckets back east.
In Europe there exist diesel versions of cars that I am sure get junked due
to accident or rust out. If someone could save good diesel engines & related
component parts & ship them to the USA I suspect a market would exist would
exist here. I understand there are versions of Jeeps & Chrysler/Dodge
minivans exported to Europe that we cant get here. The Ford Focus is not
available with a diesel engine but I understand the diesel Focus is widely
sold in in Europe. All Asian cars currently sold here are not available with
diesel engines & have not been available to my knowledge since 1986 but have
diesel availability in comparable models in Europe. 
Bill Toensing, Nevada City, CA
_______________________________________________
Vwdiesel mailing list
Vwdiesel at vwfans.com
http://www.audifans.com/mailman/listinfo/vwdiesel