I tried to get an appointment to see a Jeep Liberty diesel. The dealer laughed
and laughed, there was no way he could get one.
Turns out Jeep was putting out like 4000 of them a year...
Honda has a brilliant diesel marketing campaign in the UK based largely on an
American radio personality...
Wierd.
-Curt
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:37:00 -0800
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Hans Neureiter wrote:
> Funny how that thread veered off from Diesels in NA to Mazda.
> The article exclaims that cars with diesels don't sell in the USA.
> They are not available, that's why.
>
VW TDIs tend not to stay on the lot long, but I suspect VW is carefully
limiting supply to make sure that stays true.
Americans just aren't as keen on diesels as Europeans, present company
excepted. Part of this is because diesel is taxed less than gasoline
in
Europe, whereas is the opposite here, which makes the financial
incentives to buy diesels a lot lower. It will also take a while for
the new, cleaner diesels to win people over. A lot of people still
think of diesel cars as smelly, sooty, noisy, underpowered vehicles
that
won't start in cold weather. Diesels are well accepted in the truck
market but seeing Ford Powerstrokes clattering and belching soot
doesn't
help people accept the same technology in cars. ;)
Besides the "gee whiz" factor, I think a big reason hybrids have caught
the public's attention is they're seen as delivering diesel fuel
economy, but with "clean" gasoline instead of stinky, sooty diesel.
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I had mine pulled about 10 years ago also, right after school let out.
The following day I was out pounding the pavement looking for a job.
-Curt
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i had all four taken out more than 10 years ago - was back at school in
2
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I'm given to understand that the GM 6.2l engines can be a bear to get started
in the real cold. Of course the block heater makes things better but as one who
spent several winters without anywhere to plug the block heater in thats small
comfort.
Of course now I can plug in but it hasn't gotten cold enough that I've even had
to think about it... Plus my 190D is a better cold starter than my 240D ever
was.
-Curt
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I do not accept the urban legend that Diesels are a problem in cold
weather.
If you're talking about really far North, like Yellowknife or Dawson,
etc,
then that would possibly be true, except there almost everyone has a
plug-in
heater, that makes it as easy as if you were in Atlanta. Present day
engines with fast glow plugs start in most parts of the USA, even
without
being plugged in to external power.
Diesel engines in the 1940s and 50s were hard to start in any temperate
climate, let alone colder ones, as they typically did not have glow
plugs.
Just look at old Cat crawlers with their gasoline pony engines and
compression release levers - it took several minutes to get these
going.
Even GM 2-strokes needed ether or many minutes of cranking to fire up.
Perhaps that's the source of this "urban legend".
Werner
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That was sort of what I was baseing the 25mpg number on. That and the guy with
the F150 4BT that claimed 28mpg.
I still have a pipe dream (future plan sounds better though eh?) of putting a
4BT into an International Scout. Tough cool truck with a reasonably powerful
diesel engine.
The Scout with the Nissan 101hp diesel supposedly could pull 30mpg... No extra
power there though.
-Curt
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> Assuming it can do something like 25mpg I'd consider an F150 with a
> diesel engine...
My 3/4 ton Dodge diesel will turn in 25-26 mpg, at 60 MPH on the
freeway.
20-21 for more normal freeway speeds.
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This is a really fun job. Seriously.
Get a rubber mallet and start at one end of the bumper and pound the rubber
strip. The channel in the rubber simply locks onto the flanges of the steel
bumper core! Slide the end of the rubber to tuck into the bumper end, and
then pound the rest of the strip systematically until you get to the other
end. ,
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> What is the correct way to insert the rubber bumper pad into the bumper on
> a 1983 240 D.
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> Thanks,
> Mike in Michigan
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