Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:06:40 -0800
Reply-To:     Gary Bawden <goldfieldgary@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Gary Bawden <goldfieldgary@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Conversion? JETTA ENGINE?? Now Some TDi Comments (Shortened
              Version)
Comments: cc: Frank Grunthaner <frankgrun@AOL.COM>
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On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 Frank Grunthaner wrote,

> Also, on my list of prejudices, I cannot understand the m-TDi approach.I=
>  have no fear of electronic control systems and modified wiringharnesses.=
>  I really don't see why anyone who can read a map cannot takeon the proble=
> m. Of course you can screw it up, but that applies to ahundred other steps=
>  along the way to completion. Removing theelectronic controls of the TDi=
>  design is like leaving a free gift ofApple stock just because you don't=
>  understand the basics of stockmarket trading.

There could be reasons other than "electronophobia" for going with the
manual TD setup. Your analogy of the Apple stock I don't follow. It
would be more apt to say, leaving a brand-new Apple on everyone's
doorstep may benefit most, but the one on the porch of the successful
novelist who writes exclusively with pen and paper would do no good at
all.

IMHO, "drive-by-wire" is more about averaging everyone's fuel mileage
than it is about improving the mileage of those who learned to drive
by feel and gauge input. I say this as being the one whose fuel
mileage was thrown out as being "too high" in a fuel mileage survey
done a year or two ago.  :^)

Gary