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Probably the money you spent for the amount of fuel consumed in those 30 minutes? That would be about 75¢?Can you explain what the waste is here?
Of course, he could have meant the wear & tear on the engine.
Probably the money you spent for the amount of fuel consumed in those 30 minutes? That would be about 75¢?Can you explain what the waste is here?
You warm your car up for half an hour? Talk about waste and not good for the car. Get a webasto
Idling may not be so bad for your engine, certainly is a waste of fuel and definitely not good for the environment ?
In that case you need to immediately sell ALL of your Diesel and Gasoline fossil fuel using vehicles, and buy either a SmartforTwo Electric drive or a Fiat 500e....and definitely not good for the environment
Drive it gheto id say. Say the $. I like to talk about great ways to save money but rarely do i follow my own advice.Had an inspection problem: both front fenders have rust holes. I had a passenger side white fender, but the driver's side was a surprise. But I did have a silver one, so now my Golf 4-dr is a ghetto car. Right now I'm toying with the idea of just buying 2 new fenders and having them painted before installing. Hmmmm.....
Cheers,
PH
Well, you COULD rattle-can the fenders to a closer color match, then it would only be "ghetto-ish"!It's going to be ghetto for a while. Too many other things on the burner to deal with it more than I have.
That's a lot of work to put in a clutch that still slips...The car had been getting noisier at idle lately, finally realized the DMF was about to fall apart. Also had noticed the clutch pedal felt 'rumbly' when depressed, indicating the TOB was dying. Pulled the trans and changed clutch this past weekend. The DMF was twisted, so accessing the FW bolts was impossible. Plaz-ed out the center of the FW to access the bolts. The TOB fell apart as it was removed from the release fork. We got our money's worth out of this 266k miles OE clutch assembly.
A new Luk 17-050 clutch & FW kit was sourced from RockAuto for ~$175. It fit & works perfect, though it also slips at WOT like the OE Sachs clutch did. Was expecting it to be grippier, per the consensus on this site. Also changed tranny oil for new 75W90 synth and adjusted shift cables. Overall, it drives like new.
Yes, I'm painfully aware of that now.That's a lot of work to put in a clutch that still slips...
It's that Dieselgate thing and the move for some members to electric (and other) cars.Wow - This thread used to be bumped several times a day. Guess things have slowed down around here a bit...