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Old 04-23-2016, 09:02 PM   #172 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
Looks like VW has to by back and repair or just repair these VWs.
I wonder how worthless, gutless and thirsty these fixed VWs going to be?
If they are cheap enough I might pick one up and unfix it to have it run like an actual diesel in stead of some sort of diesel exhaust scrubber plant.
I just got an offer from a dealer in the mail yesterday to trade our A3 in on a gas turbo Quattro A3 sedan from an Audi dealer. Do you suppose VAG will crush all these perfectly good cars to get them off the road? That would be an environmental disaster in itself. Sell them to a third world nation with no EPA? Our car is almost paid off and we had planned to keep it for many years to come. Previous TDI engines are reputed to run up to 300,000 miles.

This is my wife's car and she hasn't wanted me doing anything to it. I think maybe now she will let me hot rod it. DPF delete?? More boost?? EGR delete??

These cars are very fun to drive, even better with a little more power.
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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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