Neutral: Not too terribly bad, since the week we returned our JSW TDI, I came home with a used 328d wagon (miss the manual, though, how I miss the manual!). Still completely on the fence between a used 2015 TDI Golf and a 2018 GTI, I think the warranty, if it remains 3 years, or goes up to 6 on the GTI may be a…

Nah, I’m not that much of a jalop. Im ready for my car to be red. Or green. Or Golf R blue.

If the BMW 120d hatch was available today here with a manual, I would actually go to a BMW dealer and buy one new. So take that. A jalop buying a new BMW.

No one said or suggested that TDIs unregulated aren’t gross polluters. They are. That’s why the regs are absolutely essential. VW cheated and lied, and that’s how they killed the diesel in the US. It’s not the regulations. The regs are the only thing between us and Beijing air quality.

2005 a4s in the U.K. didnt have diesel particulate filters, so they probably do smoke, and that has no relevance to the current tdis

Only way that could possibly be the case was if the owner had removed the emissions system. Our family has owned 3 of these. There was never any black smoke from any of our cars. NOx is invisible.

True, but the aecd was divulged to EPA, and is therefore part of the compliance process. Hence no stop-sale on BMW diesels. Unlike VW. I know the emissions systems are complex in order to comply with the new regs, but that happens every time EPA lowers the emissions limits, and the carmakers eventually meet the new…

I had an affected TDI as well. Now I drive a BMW 328d. The vw cheated, and as many times as they’ve tried, they can’t find any cheating on the BMW. As long as that’s the case, it proves the emissions targets are indeed reachable, VW just tried to cheat out of greed. I’m not saying BMW isn’t greedy, I’m just saying…

Honda Civic hybrid was available with a manual...

Everyone knew there was going to be a refresh when they released the touchpad macs without the new chips. I told everyone I knew to wait until the refresh, I knew from reading this site, macrumors, etc. So if you needed the absolute best and greatest, why didn’t you wait?

Oops sorry Ce he sin, I shouldn’t have replied to your post

Nonsense. That’s not how the game is played, and it’s clear that while it’s hard for vw to retrofit all the diesels they’ve already produced, they’ve been able to lower emissions significantly just with a tune. There are sacrifices to be made to hit emissions targets, but I have a hard time believing a single of the…

Love the Peugeot 504 bad guy cars. I learned to drive stick on one.

OK why the fuck would you disable EGR at highway speeds? The engine isn’t under a great deal of strain, the turbo is running, keeping EGTs hot, perfect time to do EGR, no? I can see lowering EGR temporarily when you accelerate by why when you’re cruising?

Where are you? Around here, it’s exactly 5k off retail, 0% financing, no questions asked, no haggling. Some of the base models are getting some further discounts. I imagine you’re on the West Coast, since they love to pad their pricing. Google it, you can find the TSB that says VW will pay for new tires and brakes as…

Yep, all the fixes are for the cars originally sold with the Urea system. The Gen 1s are still farged.

That stretch sucks for traffic, it’s taken me 3 hours to get from Seattle to Oly before, but the stretch South of Salem and North of Eugene. Ugh. Flat, straight, nothing but dirt farms. But none of that compares to Pennsyltucky.

Yes yes yes exactly right, thank you Burneko! Comey was a dolt and a stooge, and Democrats are playing right into the orange monster’s hands by canonizing him now. The FBI is inherently anti-democratic, and will become even more so once the newest stooge is appointed. Thanks for saying what many of us are thinking!

I’m just going to go ahead and suggest that if you are thinking about a CPO vehicle, go ahead and get it checked by an independent mechanic. Our last car was a 2011 Jetta Wagon bought from a certain Ardmore, PA dealer, who sold it to us as CPO.

No no no, you silly people. He said between 2 and 5000. He needs to buy my 2001 TDI golf, it’s only got 224k miles, and has plenty left in it. It will run forever if maintained correctly.