Recent content by New Mickey

By the way: Utah's legislature just passed a 15 cent fuel tax increase. If the governor signs it guess how much it'll cost me? NONE! My truck has a 90 gallon auxiliary tank. When I go out on a run I can fill up after I leave Utah, then top up again before I come back in. Then fill my cars...

After an unfortunate period with no diesels in the family we're 100% oil-burning again. My 2015 Passat, 2019 Ram Cummins 5500 tow vehicle, and I got my daughter a 2015 Audi A3 Jetta.....ooops......now she's pissed off. Audi A3 TDI. Totally not a Jetta. She loves it. -mickey p.s. Luba, for...

I can attest to the effect of the 80 mph limit in Utah: NONE. I drive that corridor all the time. The justification for the raised limit was to match what people were doing anyway. It has made absolutely no difference to driving speeds. In fact, when I go 80 I'm passing 90% of the vehicles...

I agree they forgot to put oil in it. Loose drain plug would have left a long trail of oil. I don't believe in coincidences. As for their "diagnosis": That's a joke. "It's either the pump or the injectors or the belt or the driver's side seat adjuster or the rear window seal or the fuel...

Every day is TDI Festival for me. -mickey

Oh, come on. Please buy them? Pretty please? -mickey

Utah. -mickey

Huge wheels with race car-width tires on family sedans are my pet peeve, so I downsized to some smaller aftermarket wheels. I have my 18" 2015 Passat TDI SEL wheels and some nearly new OEM type Continental tires for sale. (Tires came from the VW dealer. They're as OEM as you can get.)...

So I already have my Road Trip Machine. 2015 Passat TDI. I needed a Stop and Go machine. I've been driving Uber and Lyft and my TDI only manages 36 mpg doing that. ("Only...") Solution: 2019 Honda Insight Touring. 55+ MPG in town on regular unleaded. (Actual cost of fuel on the highway...

15 years later.....still kicking myself. What was I thinking? -mickey

Dumbest thing I ever did. But if anyone has a hankering for an old S-class diesel there are a couple of beauties on Hemmings right now. One is an 83 with only 50K miles on the clock. They want $24,000. A far better deal: An 81 with 80K and asking only $13,500. Better yet: Euro bumpers and...

Mine worked when I first got the car back in June. Now it doesn't. The only difference i can think of is that I accidentally ran the battery dry and had to recharge it, and therefore I think it's a safe bet that there are error codes in the ECU. I read somewhere that stored codes (or at least...

2015 Passat. I get this error from time to time. There seemed to be no consistency to it until I finally made a simple observation: It only happens when I'm wearing regular jeans rather than "carpenter jeans" with the extra pocket. Why? Because I always carry my gun in my right pocket, and...

Well....I sincerely beg your pardon for posting something that might be new information to a few people. YOU knew....therefore it's not interesting. -mickey

LOTS of them. As far as the eye can see. Some kids tried to break into the old Pontiac Silverdome as it was being prepped for demolition, and had to sneak through a parking lot FULL of brand new TDIs. It's one of the places VW stores them in Diesel Jail. Skip to 3:25 for the money shot...