My wife just bought a new late '06 Jetta TDI. I'm sure the old type diesel
will be around as long as she owns the car (8-10 years planned) Think about
it, how many hundreds of thousands of diesel vehicles are on the road today,
(not to mention all the buildings & homes being heated w/number 2 fuel oil).
Can the economy really afford to make them all unusable in the next few
years?
Ron Komoroski
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Etter" <detter@MAIL.AURACOM.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: Diesel (AAZ) engine conversion questions

> My worry centres on just what precautions owners of older TD's will
> have to take when running on this new ULSD.  Should we be adding a
> supplement... sort of a dieselviagra additive or something to harden
> the valves.
>
>                                David (dsl82westy)
>
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>>What I understand is to the contrary....the older fuel systems would
>>NOT run well on the new ULSD, and VW opted to wait until 2008 to
>>bring out an completely new fuel system that would work better with
>>ULSD.  Diesel bubbas, what do you say?  BTW, we now have the ULSD
>>here in Florida.
>>Anthony
>>'89 Syncro GL (Hidalgo)
>>
>>d spence <dkspence@TELUS.NET> wrote: When I spoke with the local
>>dealer this summer he mentioned no diesels
>>for 07 because US fuel was too dirty for their new clean burn diesel
>>engines. The cruddy diesel in the US would foul the injectors and they
>>would suffer from a warranty and image perspective.
>>
>>   Petro Canada is currently building a clean diesel refinery here in
>>Edmonton to supply the western Canadian market so we will have clean
>>diesel. However, IF VW would sell me a new tech TDI and IF I drove in
>>the USA the likelihood of fuel related problems is very high. That was
>>his story and there are no new tech TDIs in north america and won't be
>>until US oil cleans up it's act.
>>