i see you are from pittsburgh so ill ask you how this works since this is my first tdi. do they just go "oh thats a diesel, im not even going to check it"? what would happen if i took it in without the update, or with a stage 2?
My 335d makes 265hp/425ft lb @ 1750. Saturday we went on a 280 mile road trip going 75-100 and used 8 gallons of fuel for 36.25 mpg. Whats not to like? There is not any vehicle available for any price that can equal the power, economy, AND emissions legal performance of the 335d. At almost 90,000 miles there has been no cbu issues, probably because we dont use it for short city trips, do oil changes at 6K, and regular use of optilube to keep injectors clean.
I'm sure more will be revealed. We know the accusation that something was hidden is true, but I haven't seen any details that aren't pretty vague.
***? How is diesel complex? It is about as simply as can be compared to gasoline. Sure, there are plenty of complexities that are strapped on to them for emissions and other items, but those exist for gasoline cars... and complexity is at the heart of any hybrid vehicle.
Have you not looked under the hood of one? Done any major service work on one? The new 2009+ CR TDIs are many times more complex than the engines they replaced. And it is all packed into the same real estate, making them more difficult and more labor intensive to service. It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't NEED major work, but they all too often do.
Immoral behavior is not acceptable just because one derives a personal benefit from it.
I plug my car into my solar powered outlet? When the time comes, the battery will be recycled.[QUOTE
Yep... The manufacturing of batteries for these cars produces more toxic
waste, per battery, than anything in the road can produce in a year. This
is toxic chemical waste, per battery. Then it being plugged into an outlet,
in a house that is powered by coal fired a plant, that produces fly-ash, and
other toxins into the atmosphere.
The `09 + are still clean, as far as soot and ash go... Try and say
that about the semi, when you're stuck behind it going up a hill...
The standards aren't impossible to meet. The BMW X5 in the testing with the VWs passed the NOx standard in all situations. VW didn't want to spend the extra money to add the additional equipment to get the 2.0 to pass.
Then you should be driving a Prius! Better mpgs, especially city, plus fewer repairs. Maybe electric after they extend the range at an affordable price.
It's easier to clean up pollution from a stationary factory or power station than from something that is mobile. New CO2 regs will help with those emission but Hg and other pollutants will still be there.
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A thorough shop should do a visual inspection that your emission system has not been tampered. Any mom-and-pop shop is just going to inspect it like a gasser - remove a front and rear wheel, check your lights, horn, wipers, brakes, steering play, etc. and then put a sticker on it.
Knowing the bottom is still some time out....what is the point you'd buy..
Gasoline engines on their face are more complex than diesel, then you add most of the same things, or items that assist in similar ways, that you have to tack on to a diesel and you get a similar outcome. Look at the TSI gasoline engines... you are getting similar.
Whenever they go lower after whatever figure is released or highly speculated number is popular.Knowing the bottom is still some time out....what is the point you'd buy..
The mechanic that does the testing told me that the system could potentially stop the emmision test process if something with the VIN is denied by the states system.
Argh. You're really got blame this issue on the EPA. The water and air are cleaner post EPA than before it. Deaths from chronic air pollution are down. You can't have a strong economy with out clean water and healthy people. Heaven forbid the EPA tries make the country a clean, better place to live so your children don't have chronic asthma and spend their days weezing.
Please, a Prius is junk. They drive like they are choking constantly and they really do not get that good of fuel economy for highway driving compared to a regular gasoline engine (it may be about a 3 mpg increase when you objectively compare it to something on par with it). Sure, in stop/go traffic, it gets great fuel economy, so it comes down to your driving habits and requirements. Plus, fewer repairs? Prius's and other Toyota hybrids have costly repairs that occur (and I am not talking about batteries). The entire complexity of the braking system balancing between regenerative braking and mechanical/hydraulic braking... you don't want to be a car where that fails... it goes from normal operation to the slightest tap of your brake pedal being like pulling your parking brake to 100%. In the situations where folks have realized it has happened, at least they were only travelling at about 15 mph and not 40+ mph. And that is a several thousand dollar repair.
Correlation does not equal causation.
Yeah, I am on the fence related to this myself. I was already considering doing my 40k service myself. I may go ahead and do it and wait it out. I just had my 30k done a couple of weeks ago.
Data from wheel speed sensors (and ABS), most likely. If all four wheels aren't behaving similarly, the vehicle knows that it is on a dyno and most likely being tested.
Why couldn't individuals handle it? Class action lawsuits are not to the benefit of individuals, they are to the benefit of the courts so they don't have piles of lawsuits to deal with and to the parties being sued because they only have to be a defendant in one suit. Plus, the lawyers all take a huge cut.