[Vwdiesel] CAM ISSUES

[LBaird119 at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/30/2010 1:44:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
brian at gochnauer.net writes:

> The most a diesel could save would be $.02 a mile considering the price
> difference of $.60 and 30mpg vs. 45mpg and @100k miles $2,000.
> Paying someone to replace the cam is going to take ALL of the savings
> ($2,000).
> 

  Yeah, it kinda killed a lot of the economy of driving a diesel when the 
price 
shot up well above gas.  At one time (when it was about $.30+ more) if you 
made about 30mpg on gas, it was cheaper than 42 or so, with diesel.  :-( 
  Yeah, the torque, dependable starting, not missing, etc IS worth a bit 
more
even so.  I'm just glad that the price difference came closer.  Even with 
farm 
fuel it hardly was calculating out a couple years ago.
     Loren