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Subject:Re: Early Friday Post--don't open until September 6
From:Karl Wolz
Date:Thu, 5 Sep 2013 17:47:16 -0700

BlueTech or some such thing. 

Karl Wolz
Sent from my electronic umbilicus

On Sep 5, 2013, at 4:57 PM, Scott Daniel <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote:

> It' sbeen standard now in many US model diesel cars..
> just guessing, perhaps at least 6 years , for Mercedes Benz dieselshere.
> 
> called 'urea injection' I believe.
> you can pee in the diesel fluid tank in an emergency.
> 
> recently a diesel ambulance would not go due to shortage of that fluid,
> another abulance had to be called ....it resulted in a patient death
> ...prettysure I read that recently.
> 
> How much time do vanagon list members spend reading per week I wonder ?
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/5/2013 4:16 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
>> Shows how modern I am. I have heard of the chemical urea, but had no idea
>> it had any use in a diesel engine.
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Scott Daniel <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>wrote:
>> 
>>>  You are not familiar with Urea , a liquid  that most modern US model
>>> diesel cars and light trucks need these days ?
>>> Did you google it ?
>>> Might learn readily by doing that.
>>> 
>>> Chevagon ?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>  On 9/5/2013 3:49 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
>>> 
>>> I will be traveling from early until late tomorrow, but I just have to have
>>> input on this matter ASAP!
>>> 
>>> I'm looking at a mailer that Chevrolet sent me advertising a Chevy Cruze
>>> Clean Turbo Diesel, and the brochure compares it favorably (of course) with
>>> a VW TDI.
>>> 
>>> But here's the part that gets me:
>>> 
>>> In the section that explains Chevy's 2-Year Schedule Maintenance Program,
>>> there's this entry under the "free" category:
>>> 
>>> "Diesel Exhaust Fluid Refills"
>>> 
>>> Huh? Is this to be filed with Johnson Rods and Overhead Muffler Bearing
>>> pranks? What is a "Diesel Exhaust Fluid Refill," and what exactly is Diesel
>>> Exhaust Fluid?
>>> 
>>> Anxious to find out what my Diesel Westy is missing,
>>> 
>>> Jim
>>> 
>>> PS What a Vanagon conversion this Chevy engine would make if it is any
>>> good! I have heard nothing but good from people I know who have driven them.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>