Exactly, it's absolutely insane: University VW (in
Seattle) confirmed there are no new '05 TDI Passat
wagons West of the Rockies, and only a few left East
of 'em; this is in the US, however - North of the
border, I easily found three Vancouver, BC area
dealers each with multiple '05 TDI Passat
B5.5 Passat is still available with the
TDI. Actually the TDI was more reliable then the
other gas models.
David Goldsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone know why VW pulled the latest TDI's, esp.
the
Passat? Were there problems with it/them?
DG
Don't put admin. in the position of having to actively
censor the list.
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BTW, no one has mentioned
that the Touareg diesel is
gone too.
Also a bummer, but always out of my price range. :(
DG
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Thanks, Kaleb!
DG
--- Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Figured with the increased interest in biodiesel
would be a good idea to
set up a list just for that. Here is the link if
you want to sign up:
http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/biodiesel_striplin.net
So with that in
think Griffey ended up with one plus that skinhead
baseball player
whats-his-name.
I think you're thinking of Buhner.
I doubt that any VW buyer would be willing to pay
any premium to get a diesel
Jetta or whatever they are called these days.
Probably right on the Jetta, wrong on the
Great, thanks, we may take you up on that.
DG
--- Rory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's the skinny on importing cars from Canada. I
have had new cars
imported, but it depends on cooperation from the US
side of the
manufacturers operations. Many new cars are
identical to US modesl, but in
Aha! Finally an explanation which clears the air,
so to speak.
DG
--- Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:48:01PM -0400, Jeff Zedic
wrote:
Hah! Believe me, if VW can meet Euro 4 emission
specs, they can meet the
wimpy US EPA limits!
Don't forget that the EU and
For a diesel Toureg? Where you shopping?
DG
--- Harry M.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, here's the not so good or bad news. Base Price
is $24,000 all the way up to $36,000 for a fully
loaded model with all wheel drive
OK Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If enough of them get into the
Any listers in the Oly, WA area got an '03 TDI JETTA
compatible VAG-COM I can visit you to use? Thanks!
DG
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Olympia, and I don't have one. Did you post this
request over on the
tdi club site?
On 9/6/05, David Goldsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Any listers in the Oly, WA area got an '03 TDI
JETTA
compatible VAG-COM I can visit you to use?
Thanks!
Casey
Olympia, WA
Biodiesel:
'87 300TD
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Did you trip a fault code? If I had kept my '96
Passat, I'd of picked
up the VAG-COM myself. I wanted to bypass the EGR
to avoid coking up
the intake, which requires that the computer be
tricked into accepting
this as normal operation. Good luck.
On 9/6/05, David Goldsmith
a
discussion site for almost all VW's The false
readings on Vag-Coms seems to be a common normality
with alot of VW's
David Goldsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The full story: very shortly after getting my car
back
from Dr. Dan's last Thurs., the Check Engine
light
came on, so I quickly
Hi, folks! So, it was bound to happen sooner or
later, given the miles I was logging: I crumpled my
'82 240D. :(( Despite severe front end damage, much
of the engine (e.g., new battery, alternator, Viton
fuel return lines, strong engine largely serviceable I
think) and body (everything from the
Converted (to) stick; 2023XX miles, I think about 5K
on the tires, unsure about the tranny.
DG
--- Steve MacSween [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Sorry to hear that... is it stick or auto? What
mileage?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, folks! So, it was bound to happen sooner or
later, given
Yes, thanks!
DG
--- OK Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We're sorry to hear about your 240D, but it sounds
like you are OK,
which is what really matters!
--
OK Don, KD5NRO
Norman, OK
'87 300SDL
'81 240D
'78 450SLC
The FSM created the Diesel Benz
http://www.venganza.org/
No, front is pushed in too badly, must be towed.
(Plus, you wouldn't be safe driving the thing as is -
can't open the front passenger door as is, so, God
forbid, were you to get in another accident preventing
driver egress, you'd be pretty much screwed if you had
to get out in a hurry.)
DG
---
It steers and you can see over the hood, but the
vehicle lost power upon collision and wouldn't restart
when I tried to do that to drive the vehicle to the
shoulder (lucky for me, an ambulance happened by
almost immediately after the accident and after
confirming that all humans were ok and then
Vehicle is claimed. Thanks!
DG
PS: [OT] Anyone know what year Dodge started including
pocket doors on their extra cab trucks? Thanks again!
--- David Goldsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It steers and you can see over the hood, but the
vehicle lost power upon collision and wouldn't
restart
Anyone have any experience with these vehicles? Any
opinions ala acquire if you can or avoid like the
plague and why? Thanks!
DG
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Hi, folks. This is in reference to a Seattle area
craiglist. The lister claims the car gets approx. 35
mpg (see below). I'm incredulous - should I be?
DG
Original Message Subject:
Re: '87 Mercedes 300D TURBO Diesel - $3995
Date: Tue, 27
I'm going to look @ the car now (though certainly not
going to buy it on the spot) but if you want to text
me your opinion, it's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks!
DG
--- David Goldsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, folks. This is in reference to a Seattle area
craiglist. The lister claims the car
/27/05, David Goldsmith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
PS: Assuming its timed right for petrol diesel,
about
how far forward should the timing be set for B99;
or
did these things have electronic timing control by
'87? Thanks again.
Casey
Olympia, WA
Biodiesel:
'87 300TD intercooler
Howdy! Every once in a while I notice someone here asking someone to run a
CARFAX for 'em. I've never read any of those requests to know whether payment
is offered. In any event, if someone can do it gratis, might that someone run
me a CARFAX on VIN 1B7KF2363YJ125888 - it's an '00 Dodge
Thanks, Kaleb!
DG
--- Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vehicle Snapshot
Vehicle 2000 Dodge Truck Ram 2500 Laramie SLT/Quad
Cab/ST
VIN 1B7KF2363YJ125888
Body Style Unspecified
Country of Manufacture United States
Vehicle History Checklist
Vehicle Description
Hi, folks! Wife and I are on the verge of buying an
'00 Dodge 2500 diesel to run on biodiesel. My main
concern, given my history, is with fuel injector
return lines. On examining the engine, I noted that
the injectors appear to be inside the engine block, or
at least not have return lines.
Thanks!
DG
--- Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 12:54:50PM -0700, David
Goldsmith wrote:
Hi, folks! Wife and I are on the verge of buying
an
'00 Dodge 2500 diesel to run on biodiesel. My
main
concern, given my history, is with fuel injector
return lines
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/092105_rita_storm.shtml
Alarmist? Sensationalist? Time will tell...
DG
--- David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christopher McCann wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051003/pl_nm/energy_winter_costs_dc
If heating oil is going up 30+%,
Perhaps his implication is to rush out and stock up
now (it comes in those convenient 5-gallon conainers).
How much are VO conversions?
DG
--- David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Christopher McCann wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051003/pl_nm/energy_winter_costs_dc
If heating
.
The savings, for us, will be a very convenient
supply
of oil (got a guy lined up for this) and a fast,
clean
and VERY efficient filtration method (using an
industrial centrifugal filter in my garage - sub
micron purity).
Chris
--- David Goldsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps
I think we pay for them to mix it for us (plus it's
been suggested to me that the tax break is less for
B20 than it is for B99); I observed the same phenom
where I get mine: the price order, lowest to highest,
was B0 (by only $0.02), B99, B20, by about $0.10 or
so. Whether B0 or B100 is more
The unfortunate fact is that the way dino fuel is
going, there won't be much price pressure on him to
lower that. :(
DG
--- Russ Maki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was on the phone the other day with a fuel/oil
distributor who's
getting into biodiesel. For the record, Wolf Oil of
Slinger,
Now all he has to do is organically grow his own flax,
process it himself, and he'll be all set!
DG
--- Bob Rentfro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Holy Cats, Chris...with what do you plan to power
your centrifuge?
So you intend to run WVO you sent for a spin in
your centrifuge as fuel?
Cool.
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Sorry about the empty message before; this is what I
was trying to send:
Ok, Im ready to name names: the guy who sold me the
bum Vanagon is Reginald Reggie Stone of Shoreline -
buyer beware this seller. (To be fair, I should
emphasize that I did understand it to be an as is
sale, and that, due
--- David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 9:41:27 -0400, meadedillon wrote
I don't think that the estate engine was
'de-tuned' compared to the
sedan. True, the SLS pump would be a parasitic
loss that the sedan
wouldn't have unless it had the SLS option. I
think
Casey-
Did you see how much that converted-to-diesel
280Z went for on Ebay some months back, something
close to (or over) $13K I believe. Granted, w/ 7+
more days to go, this car probably won't stay below
$2K, but you buy that car, put the engine in a sexier
body, and I bet you could at
Hi, folks! I need some Viton fuel lines (return
lines, I think, the ones that come up from the little
nozzles which come up out of the injectors, I think is
what they are) and bad! (My '82 240D is leaking B50
all over my carport; I thought it'd only leak if the
fuel line was pressurized, i.e.,
Well, perhaps you'd like to come clean the gallon plus
of B50 off the floor of my carport. All I know is
that after only 33K miles this happened to our TDI
about 6 weeks or so ago and at that time we were
advised to replace the hoses, the failed and not
failed, w/ Viton or silicone-based. We let
--- Mitch Haley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't comment on your VW, other than to wonder
where
you get your B50, and if it might be B40/M10 from
not
removing the methanol.
I get 1/2 a tank of B100 (99 lately, actually) from a
CFN cardlock station in Oly and then fill 'er up with
petrol
Zeitgeist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No doubt, all the German car speciallists in the Puget Sound area use
the German braided stuff, because...well, it works. I just got back
from hauling the wife n' kids in the TD up to Bellingham at supersonic
speeds and the braided stuff handled the heat and
create a
pressure build-up causing those tiny lines to leak.
They're push-on
lines cuz usually that's a relatively low pressure
circuit.
Anyhoo...I live on the westside, just adjacent to
the TESC campus.-- (866.3898)
On 7/26/05, David Goldsmith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Feel free
-on
lines cuz usually that's a relatively low pressure
circuit.
Anyhoo...I live on the westside, just adjacent to
the TESC campus.-- (866.3898)
On 7/26/05, David Goldsmith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Feel free to swing the car by my shop if you like,
and I'll give it a
look-see
And don't forget to deduct your ebay selling expenses,
both from when you sold it to him and for the relist.
DG
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 8/8/2005 11:52:47 PM Eastern
Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Relist the car. If the original buyer ever
contacts
Hi, all! Revisiting a recurring topic here: is it any
easier to import a diesel from our neighbor to the
North (with whom we ostensibly share no trade barriers
- HA!)? What's involved - same as rest of world
(which was discussed here several mo. ago)? Thanks!
DG
to taxes.
On 8/29/05, David Goldsmith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow, pressed someone's button. I don't know about
Tacoma city routes, but the Sound Transit routes I
ride from Tac to Seattle and back are quite often
SRO.
Sorry you don't like paying taxes...
DG
--- [EMAIL
Actually, according to Web-listed dealer inventory
there are no new '05 TDI Passat Wagons within 400 km
of Seattle on the US side of the border. However, w/
very little effort, I found three Vancouver, BC area
VW dealers each w/ multiple '05 TDI Passat Wagons.
So, according to you, I should have
Ah, the good old days...
DG
--- Gabriel S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to see a just diesel list too!
On 8/29/05, Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
see banned
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally, the traffic doesn't really bother
me, but I can see how
/05, David Goldsmith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, the good old days...
DG
--- Gabriel S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to see a just diesel list too!
On 8/29/05, Kaleb C. Striplin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
see banned
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Maybe that's true also.
DG
--- LT Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That is like saying you have more ex-wives than
anyone else.
On 8/29/05, Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Yea, well I have more MB's than anybody on this
list.
OK Don wrote:
Yeah - -- My MB is
Wait a second, there are double cab Vanagon Pick-ups?
Are they still manufactured? Can you get 'em w/ a TDI
in 'em?
DG
--- David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve MacSween wrote:
So actually on the whole you have a better
selection of cars there, with
some oddball exceptions (want
Oh, and was it new when you brought it in?
DG
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
about 5 years ago.
It was a golf. Best car I have ever owned. Minimum
maintenanace, and after taking the cat out and
putting a KN filter (wanted to stall with the stock
filter) I was getting 35-40 MPG. Not bad for
AMTRAK hardly qualifies as urban mass transit (though
it sounds like that's what it's being used for up
there).
DG
--- Curt Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
New England is home to a stellar AMTRAK success
story in the Nor'Easter line between Portland and
Boston. My Dad took it for a
We run B100 in our '03 TDI and B50 in our '82 240D.
Our results are basically the same as yours, but I
think we've had low to no drop (0 to 10%) in mileage
on B100 in the late model TDI; anecdotally, the older
the engine (or design thereof), the bigger the drop in
mpg going to biodiesel - any
Good info, thanks!!!
DG
--- J.B. Hebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My guess is the electronic engine management on your
TDI is
compensating for the lower BTU's in the B100,
whereas the older cars
with mechanical systems cannot do that dynamically.
I have heard
that you can gain back
Anyone know why VW pulled the latest TDI's, esp. the
Passat? Were there problems with it/them?
DG
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OK, thanks.
DG
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nope. 90 model. Canadian model actualy. Had running
day lights.
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Oh, and was it new when you brought it in?
DG
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
about 5 years ago.
It was a
VW dealers, but maybe I misunderstood - do you know
otherwise?
DG
--- Zeitgeist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where did you hear this?
On 8/30/05, David Goldsmith
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Anyone know why VW pulled the latest TDI's, esp.
the
Passat? Were there problems with it/them
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