[Diana in Wisconsin]

Even IF - those things were never, EVER warm! EVER! I drove so many miles with a spray can of de-icer and the driver’s window OPEN squirting the windshield every so often just so I could see when I had my VW Bug out in the winter months.

I miss her. :(

I moved to CA from ‘80—82 and a guy bought her from me for $2K to make into a Dune Buggy. (I made $600 on the deal - Wheee!)

I bought a Ford truck and returned to the SANITY of the Midwest.

[Chode]

guess i'm lucky i sold it before it really got old then... 8^)

[golux]

A ping to Kenny for Old Times' Sake.

Whither KNOCK LIST?

The 2.0T is a delightful engine: I have one now.

As our FRiend Kenny used to say when he (infrequently but magnificently) cursed:

There's a reason that ass- Rudolf Diesel committed suicide...

Yet we mechanics love these engines. Like perfect women: complicated but simple, addictive, demanding, indestructible, outrageous, attention-getting, deadly and beautiful. Only a diesel engine will leave you, at the end of an endless, murderous offshore journey, in tears of thanks and praise.

[reg45]

I remember my VW bug. It was the only car that would start when the temperature was -20°F. Even so, the heater was less than worthless at that temperature.