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Date:         Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:20:52 -0800
Reply-To:     Mark Drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: New VW Rotten Unvieled // TDI?
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Sure, but have you ever priced a new ECU, or AFM, or idle valve, or ICU, or OX sensor, or fuel pump, or..........

Lots of expensive parts we read about failing here every week on a gasoline Vanagon. Not so many on a diesel.

Mark

Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote: > Yes and when your injection pump needs rebuilding I will cost the equivalent > of 250 gallons of fuel to get the whole job done, something a gasoline car > doesn't' even have at all. Nor does a gasoline car have a comparable > expensive fuel system part that is a predictable major expense like a fuel > injection pump rebuild. > > Fuel cost is only one part of the equation. > Diesels cost more to get in the first place, and are often more expensive to > repair. > 'really fantastic fuel mileage' is just the short term immediate benefit, > and not the whole story at all. > I will grant you though, that counting all expenses from new purchase to say > 200,000 miles the diesel will probably come out ahead on cost per mile > compared to the gas car, but not by any astronomical amount like 60 % less > over all or anything like that. Maybe 25 % less over all long term, as a > wild guess. > > Tell me about this 'diesel fuel is less than gas in the summer' > ............. > I've noticed the fluctuation ( diesel in southern Oregon is more than > premium gas right now, as it often is ) ........but not that is was less in > the summer than gas. > When did you first notice that, > And why is that ? > scott > > > -


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