"it's like being in love
with someone who cheats on you constantly"

BY FAR!
    I can fix any vehcile, but I can't fix
people.   This is why relationship suck!

                                               ERic

Donald Baxter wrote:

>I talk to lots of people who have TDIs here in Iowa City and so far so
>good everyone seems happy.  That being said, I'm concerned with VWs
>level of quality--not a new concern for someone who has had VWs now
>for almost 30 years.  I have a '96 Passat in addition to the '85
>Vanagon.  I wish the Passat would just finally die for all its
>expensive nitpicking mechanical and physical problems.  Save for the
>Vanagon, I'll never buy another VW again and my partner has explicity
>instruction to shoot me should i ever seriously consider one again.  I
>don't think the TDI should be equipped with a rubber timing
>belt--almost every VW I've ever had had the timing belt break long
>before replacement time--disastrous on a diesel.  The only VW I had
>that could do damage as a result of this breakage was a '92 Passat
>(38,000 miles!) that broke a belt and was mercifully spared damage
>somehow to its interference 16V engine.
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>I think if i were looking at a commuter car now, though, I'd be buying
>a Toyota Corolla--probably the best made small car on the market
>today.  It's comparitively simple technologically, it's very reliable,
>and on the highway you will probably see mileage close to 40 mpg (as
>opposed to what--52 for the diesel?).  When you check the price
>differential between any VW TDI and the Toyota you'd have to drive the
>VW a much longer distance to ever see the financial advantage.  Then
>think of the maintenance costs advantage of the Toyota over the VW and
>the VW WILL break--irritating stuff like power window regulators,
>electrical sensors--expensive, hard to diagnose and hard to reach.
>Sorry for the heresy but while i love VWs, it's like being in love
>with someone who cheats on you constantly.
>
>Donald Baxter
>'85 Vanagon GL, '96 Passat GLX
>Iowa City
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>Donald Baxter
>316 Ridgeview Avenue
>University Heights, Iowa 52246
>http://www.mindspring.com/~onanov
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