Hi John, Makes sense to me ... Like the next fella, I don't enjoy paying bills but I can also see VW's viewpoint... If the fuel, BD, SVO or whatever you put in your tank damages the product why should they take the blame. My next step is to find out how the local dealers ( all of 2) feel about BD.. should be interesting.
Thanks for the info guys.. Norm On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:30:49 -0500, John Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Norm Fillion wrote: > > I have a newbie/wannabe question .... The above word of caution peaks > > my interest as I am seriously shopping for a TDI... I drive a min of > > 150KMs per day.. A TDI with Bio seems like "the solution" however I > > think it would be foolish to run a newer vehicle with BD if it voids > > the warranty.. > > Hi Norm. > > Much has been written about this subject; lots of sizzle but frankly, > not a lot of steak. > > Here's the short version: > > a) VWoA does not warranty fuel, biodiesel or otherwise. > > b) If you get a bad tank of fuel, biodiesel or otherwise, the > distributor is responsible for repair costs, not VWoA. > > c) A dealership can choose to deny warranty service on a part if failure > of that part was the result of bad fuel, biodiesel or otherwise. > > d) Some dealerships are BD friendly; some aren't. > > In other words, if your injector pump fails, and your dealership is not > BD friendly, and you can't get the fuel vendor to pony up, you may have > to pay for the injector pump yourself. > > Otherwise, you're good. You could have 837 biodiesel bumper stickers on > your car and the most anti-BD dealership in the country would still have > to fix your broken transmission. > > jh > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
