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Date:         Tue, 19 Sep 1995 12:53:35 -0400
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From:         Dale James <dale+@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject:      Re: Diesels

Christopher Diehl <cdiehl@freenet.columbus.oh.us> writes:

>The V.W. Diesel engine is one of the strongest engines ever made, >as long as you follow some simple rules, oil changes, oil changes, >oil changes, and a few timing belt changes in between.

<some deleted for brevity>

>I own a 81 >Jetta Diesel with close to 400,000 miles on it and it still gets 45 >m.p.g.'s Can't afford to get rid of it.

Damn! I thought we had the record with 263,000 on our '81 Jetta diesel. <Sigh...> Time for a few (dozen) cross-country trips....

--Dale


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