sk8rguy
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I bought it.
Where are the pictures?Last week - Bought my first MK3 Jetta TDI. This thing looks showroom new inside and out, green with tan cloth, no sunroof and manual windows but power locks.
Purchased from 91 year old man that bought it new, he was downsizing to 1 car and kept his B6 Passat gasser since he only drives to breakfast occasionally.
It currently has low power, VCDS shows 0053, 65535, 01050, and 00575 sub code 17-10. I will be digging into this soon. I did already replace vacuum line inside ECU but am waiting on fuel filter, air filter, and oil filter to arrive to start troubleshooting in depth.
That's a find. I bought my black A3 from an elderly gentleman with a similar story. Found the cat was plugged from too much gentle driving, at 34K miles. Something to check.Last week - Bought my first MK3 Jetta TDI. This thing looks showroom new inside and out, green with tan cloth, no sunroof and manual windows but power locks.
Purchased from 91 year old man that bought it new, he was downsizing to 1 car and kept his B6 Passat gasser since he only drives to breakfast occasionally.
It currently has low power, VCDS shows 0053, 65535, 01050, and 00575 sub code 17-10. I will be digging into this soon. I did already replace vacuum line inside ECU but am waiting on fuel filter, air filter, and oil filter to arrive to start troubleshooting in depth.
Coming soon - been on the road since I brought it homeWhere are the pictures?
Thanks Peter - I was thinking about Cat since the errors point to airflow in or out.That's a find. I bought my black A3 from an elderly gentleman with a similar story. Found the cat was plugged from too much gentle driving, at 34K miles. Something to check.
Hello indigobluewagonThat's a find. I bought my black A3 from an elderly gentleman with a similar story. Found the cat was plugged from too much gentle driving, at 34K miles. Something to check.
Thank you kindly, IndiI don't think the converter plugging issue is the same with the newer cars. Regens will take care of soot accumulation. Gentle driving will equal more frequent regens. The risk with the new cars is too many short trips and interrupted regens. I've read about folks here with MKVI TDIs that run very poorly because they've been deprived of regens. Otherwise I think you're OK.
Also, keep in mind that dogdots car was on the road for nearly 10 years before ULSD was in universal use. Older, higher soot fuel was more likely to clog intakes and CATs.
Going this afternoon for the registration. $96.00 plus $1.50 fee for insurance verification.
Darn other issue, they are changing the "plate". No (extra) charge, but still a nuisance.
In the past, we just got a little "sticker" to put on the old plate.
Having no "good" info......Curious. Why are they changing the plate? So the new electronic scanners can read it? Yeah, I'm a little paranoid, lol.
Well I googled and found this article. http://newsok.com/article/5514945Having no "good" info......
My beef is the trouble of changing the plate. (tools, nuts, bolts, screws, bloody fingers)
Normally one "good" plate was good for the life of ownership on that car. At registration time we just got a small "sticker" to paste over the old sticker. Easy Peasy
Now that we have the "NEW" plate, wonder what we do next year.
BTW, there is now a $18.00 new charge to get your old plate number.
My sincere thanks to Bobt for this postWell I googled and found this article. http://newsok.com/article/5514945
Gov. Mary Fallin said it will be easier for police to read the plates, which also could help officers catch people driving unregistered cars, and could even reduce the number of people driving without insurance.
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Prison labor will produce the plates, with some of the material coming from the 3M company.
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The new plates have reflective material intended to make them more visible at night.
Backers of the new plates say many existing plates are worn down, weathered or damaged and are hard to read in low light situations.
They say old plates also are more difficult to identify in photographs, such as those taken on turnpikes, where cameras capture images of vehicles driven by people who don't pay tolls. ....snip...."
I don't know what the rationale is in Oklahoma, but Washington started replacing plates over X years old, claiming that the visibility of the plate degraded over time.
I'm thinking that it's cheap printing of the text, as much as anything, and another chance to get in our pockets over registration...
Last week - Bought my first MK3 Jetta TDI. This thing looks showroom new inside and out, green with tan cloth, no sunroof and manual windows but power locks.
Purchased from 91 year old man that bought it new, he was downsizing to 1 car and kept his B6 Passat gasser since he only drives to breakfast occasionally.
It currently has low power, VCDS shows 0053, 65535, 01050, and 00575 sub code 17-10. I will be digging into this soon. I did already replace vacuum line inside ECU but am waiting on fuel filter, air filter, and oil filter to arrive to start troubleshooting in depth.