On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Fredrich Hesterberg wrote: > Mr. David, > You say one thing in your message that is important. > You talked about a Ford. > This is the reason why the troubles you said happened. > Not good to compare to even a Vanagon. --> I don't think it makes that much difference. Around here Chevys are known for bad rings (they burn a lot of oil). Every vehicle has its own set of problems. > Vw went bad with the thought of using an old design engine and just > using water in the heads and cylinders. > They should have built a new whole engine. --> I think a more important problem is they created an "orphan" engine, only used in this one vehicle. If they'd used an engine that was already in use in one of their other cars, they would have had the benefit of more engineering time, and parts would be much easier to get. (This is one edge the diesel has over the WBX -- lots of VW cars used that same diesel.)
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