Date:         Fri, 23 Dec 2016 09:28:12 -0800
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Friday: VW shops and the VW diesel problem
Comments: To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@gmail.com>
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 It seems the US has been lobbied to legislate pretty hard against deisels
over the years.  As a diesel owner of two older Ford powerstroke trucks,
I've noticed.  The newer diesels have to include a lot of complex and
potentially catastrophic systems to comply with US emmisions standards.
This has made them not very good and expensive, too...I guess the oil
industry had something to do with this, but for whatever reason, diesels
are not a good sell any longer...Here in the US, anyhow...And trying to
cheat Big Oil out of their money in the US....That was foolish on VW's
part...


On Dec 23, 2016 8:35 AM, "Jim Felder" <jim.felder@gmail.com> wrote:

> I went by my local VW shop to pick up a thing or two yesterday and I asked
> the owner how was business. He said that the VW diesel scandal has hurt
> them a lot--25 to 30 percent of their former business being the care and
> maintenance of scandal-era TDI stuff.
>
> He said he had a customer with a car in the shop until a few days ago. The
> high-pressure fuel pump blew up, which ruins the entire pump with
> fragments. After the $$$ item was replaced the car only ran on two
> cylinders--a known problem with these engines since the diesel shops cannot
> seem to reliably clean out the micro-filter screens in them. Injectors
> being $650 a pop, the owner decided to call the VW dealer and see what
> could skate by in the buy-back program.
>
> "We'll take it" she said, "and you'll get the full payment if the car will
> run on its own for 30 seconds, even on one cylinder." She went on to
> explain that they had bought back cars with no doors and no interior.
>
> Don't know if all this is accurate or not, but it suggests that there soon
> won't be any of the scandal-era diesels around, and with VW getting out of
> the diesel business altogether as was announced last week, the diesel-cide
> will probably go back many years further that.
>
> Jim
>