Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 10:18:32 +0300
Reply-To: Janne Ruohomäki <janne.ruohomaki@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Janne Ruohomäki <janne.ruohomaki@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: vanagon difficulty
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No this was not the kinda language. Sorry about that.
Not at all all asian cars go that far. Very very few ones do this.
Just like american ones, most of the is crap. I dont see what kind of
documentation you are looking for but the car was my fathers. He has
always fixed all the cars himself and driven a lot in his
work. That car is now scrapped. No repair receipts or maintenance log
or anything were seen at any point. My father just knew what he was
doing. Oh.. and my father has been dead for 4 years.
To little bit defend my self I would argue that I did not call
anybodys experience utter something. It is a fact that in general good
car engine should go over 1 000 000 miles quite easily. If it does not
it has some kind of design error, from engineering point of view. Not
necessarily economically faulty: it is probably a good thing to the
manufacturer if the engine does not go on forever.
And the talk was about "audis & bmws of that time." Those cars were
roughly the same age at that time. Neiher was antique at that time.
But do the calculation yourself: 2.8 litres of engine displacement in
a datsun body that has more paint than metal. The engine was nissan
LD28 that has a reputation better than mercedes OM602 that is
generally taken as the best mass produced car engine in the world when
longevity is considered. (if someone knows of better one, I would
interrested to hear about it)
I can guarantee that it aint rubber that I am smoking as I will soon
have 1.6 diesel in my T3 ;)
Oh, this LD28 "wonder machine" could possibly be mounted to T3 with
luddite if theres enough space.
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Karl<tdiguru@westyventures.com> wrote:
> Hear hear! Mr moderator! Is THIS the sort of language we need here?
>
> BTW, calling other's experience 'utter bee ess' is a little much, don't
> you think? That somehow all the GREAT Asian cars can achieve 1M miles?
> Sureeee....let's SEE your documentation. 1M miles no
> repairs...antiquated Datsun diesel "blowing away BMW's and Audis"....ok,
> I'll have some of what yer smokin'
>
> Karl
>
> Janne Ruohomäki wrote:
>
>> Now these here are starting to sound like respectable amount of
>> miles. My father had -82 Datsun Laurel 2.8 Diesel which went well over
>> 1 000 000 miles. No clutch, engine, drivetrain repairs or anything.
>> And for goddness sake this is a japanese car! The engine and
>> drivetrain were in excellent condition when my father sold the car to
>> some guy who had horses and needed cheap car to tow those horses in
>> "horsetrailer" (wtf that thing is called where horses travel in a box
>> behind a car). The only thing in that car that needed repairs was the
>> body of the car: japanese cars of that era have more paint than metal
>> everywhere in the car. There were 2 young guys driving this car as a
>> first car after we got our driving licences: me and my brother. And I
>> can tell you that we both hit the pedal to the metal _very_ often for
>> over 4 years in a row. Eg. absolute full throttle to 75mph at least
>> every second time when leaving traffic lights. That car was quite
>> lightweighted, except for engine. It was also rear wheel driven so it
>> was very much fun to drive with excessive sliding. Perfect car for
>> young wannabe-racer. It actually outperformed most BMWs and audis in
>> acceleration from 0 - 75 mpg that my friends (or their fathers ;) had
>> at that time.
>>
>> Ive followed this list and discussion about mileage and it actually
>> makes me laugh when people are somehow thinking that some 200 000
>> miles without opening an engine is a lot for a car. Thats utter
>> bullshit. These guys have absolutely no idea how a good engine should
>> perform. 200k is just a warmup lap for real Engine.
>>
>