75r90rider, your tone in this thread is much less alarmist than in the thread you started the other day! I wish you hadn't started that one.
I agree with your tone in THIS thread, in that the overall percentage of failures is very very small, and decreasing every day. We are well past 60,000 TDIs sold at this point. The frequency of failure posts seems to have slowed considerably from when the issue first arose, although that may only be my perception.
For my part, I'm interested to learn if there will be some remedy NOT involving replacement of the entire fuel system, thereby cutting the 10K cost. Perhaps cleaning is a possibility somehow? The consensus seems to be that the very small microscopic shavings cannot ever really be cleaned out of the system, and as long as they are present, the high-pressure componentry remains at risk of future failure. Nevertheless, I am hopeful something like this can be found to work, so some of us can undertake repairs in our driveways, or at a trusted guru.
Maybe someone can find a good cleaning method? Rod Bearing, can you fill us in on the techniques you currently employ when cleaning out failed diesels in your shop? You alluded to them in another thread long ago, and I've been holding out hope you'd describe the process and maybe offer an opinion on whether it might work for this scenario. Doubtful it would, I'm sure, given the extremely high pressures we're talking about, but it would be fascinating reading nonetheless.
Pretty please?