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Aren't the "fixed" diesels selling out?
But if one liked/likes the/a buyback model, it's a good opportunity to re buy at reduced prices. The deals can be sweeter with close to zero down & % !
Now what the keep & buyback rates will be are anyone's guess.
It'd be most amusing if those who were shedding crocodile tears about VW betraying the green image went and bought back the cars.
While the lower mpg is a nit, lower still mpg right now (diff gen & after fix) without knowing the future figures are not deal breakers.
There is no doubt in my mind the aftermarket will provide.
Not a huge fan of the 1.8T, but it is competent and with the DSG and moves along well. The Alltrack is a good package, deserves the 2.0T. Handles well despite the higher ride height.
Guess we'll have to wait for it to show up in the rest of the fleet.
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Are you trying to taunt him?!
On fuelly.com: 2015, 2016, 2017 posts avg 29.5 mpg for the 1.8 L gasoline. VW Golf.
I've grown accustomed to the MB 2.1 L twin turbo BT 369 # ft. The heavier weight + 4 matic puts mpg @ 36.
It sure is nice sometimes not needing to rev.
Paid 2.59 for regular 87 unleaded gas at Costco the other day.
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Of course, I also just ordered a thousand gallons of #1 heating oil for my tank, and that's at $2.34 per gallon. A lot better than the nearly $4 per gallon I paid five years ago, but still not an easy pill to swallow.
Carson City, NV RUG $2.55, MGUG $2.67, PUG $2.77, ULSD $2.45
Oh but they do promise to accelerate that $ 86 B bullet (bb gun) train to no where?
I love this eries, but this one is on diesel filters.
Oh but the do promised to accelerate that $ 86 B bullet (bb gun) train to no where?
Always found Carson City a good place to buy gas and diesel. The Moonbeam Train to nowhere is on the list of reasons to get out of CA. Someone has to pay for all the nonsense. This is the last year I will be paying in CA.
Getting our Driver's License changed when we go to close in a week. No test just turn in the CA DL and get the Federally accepted REAL ID NV license.
Looking back at the 6+ years I owned the 07 Sequoia, we put 36,153 miles on the ODO. Filled 166 times at a cost of $7588. To date on the 2013 Touareg TDI we have 44,762 miles. Filled it 92 times at a total cost of $5271.
Sequoia = .20988 per mile
Touareg = .11775 per mile
44% less to drive the diesel Touareg. I rest my case.
On th MB GLK 350 21 mpg /250BT 36 mpg, (and 715/417 gal, 15,000 miles per yr/ 15.6 gal)
= 46 fills vs 27 fills. If each fill takes 15 mins, that's 4.75 hrs per year one isn't filling.
On the 2012 VW Touareg, I've also done only 1 oil & filter change on my own in 63,000 miles (first 30,000 miles, three dealer oil & filter changes included in warranty) I really wasn't planning to sell this early, but oh well. Specification diesel oil is very robust! I've used Castrol, Total, Mobil 1 ESP, to good effects. ZERO issues in mixing. I've also documented very low oil consumption in 4 separate diesels over. 413,000 miles! The most "consumptive" was .75 L in one 30,000 miles oil & filter change. The 4 TDI engines were 1.9 L, 2.0 L, 2.1 L, 3.0 L.
So to add to your posting,...Advantage diesel!
Wind turbine concept dating back to the Persian Empire!?
But WAIT!? Imagine every NYC & SF city building with these & solar panels!! Right, most to all will pull an Al Gore?
The producers didn't say a peep about db or comparison to GE wind turbine products.....
65% of US electrical energy product comes from "fossilized" (it not fossilized) fuel ! Combine with out of favor 20% nuclear, 85% plus are provided by tsk tsk, "unwanted" sources.
Frack on!
So the environmental shrills seriously want to replace 85% of unwanted sources; when after 30 + yrs plus, the markets & governmentstax credits & write-offs & force have put less than 1 % solar on the markets? You all should journey out to the Mohave Desert to view that monstrosity of a solar farm. I wonder if they will let you eat the freshly killed birds?
On the other side, nothing says recycling like P 38 fighter aircraft engines in a 55 ft Lake Tahoe, CA wooden boat ? Emissions controls? We don't need no stinking emissions controls!
USA Amarahkin translation!?
http://www.constructionowl.com/100-or-200-amp-electrical-service-that-is-the-question/
Well, IF one is going to get two EV's, nothing says fire safety like upgrades from 100/200 amps to 400 to 500 amps? (100 amps each) Cost you say? Don't worry about it! You're paying for it!
Going to Sedona in February; thinking 8E to some El Centro connector to 78 E to 10 E to the Arizona connectors through Prescott into Sedona will be my route again.
Just have to watch it on the 8 East in CA, the Sheriffs will pull you over for 10 over and no front license plate, and then want to check your trunk for drugs.
On one of our first trips to Sedona, the wife and I went to Prescott for the day, through Jerome, then back on I-17.
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We stayed in Cottonwood and took the train through the Verde Canyon. A very nice trip. Worth the extra money going first class. https://verdecanyonrr.com/
We were considering Cottonwood as a place to buy and get out of CA. AZ has some nice places. Just a bit over priced for what you get. And higher taxes than NV. Sedona is pretty and the drive up through Jerome to Prescott
is Great.
Of course, if one is followed and doesn't realize it, they could probably rack up multiple vehicle code infractions on just about anybody. Last I checked our code in CA topped 40,000 possible citations.
But it's totally undeniable that vehicles have been/ are "revenue generators". One example, SF, CA over time meter parking (downtown, as of 2013) $74. In the case, when you haven't gotten back (in time) to clear the violation/s, they can give you multiple tickets at $74 each. After a prescribed number of multiple tickets, for the same violation i.e. overtime parking, they can tow your car away. Nothing says $300-$700 like a towed car.
As to the myriad of ways & reasons one can be stopped, it can be as "logical" as stopping you to see if ones car ( invisible) sticker #'s on the license plate match the #'s on registration paperwork that one is supposed to have.
One should also develop driving sight patterns to include: seeing to knowing (intuitive or otherwise) when LEO's are there! So for example, 10 mpg over fades into mootness, if they have a lazar/radar gun. Aks gotcha dead to rights @ 56 mph in a 55 mph zone. On the est. side, it can also mean (using Kentucky windage) they can give you a ticket @ 8/9 under. They can then say: we'll see ya in court! Oh & what are these other things....
More on point, I've never been stopped by officers who solely wished me to have a great day. Have any of them been nasty? Absolutely not!
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The VW Mircobus/Camper concept really brings me backward & forward in time! I had wanted 38 years ago to buy a Euro, but Am spec VW Camper to tour all of Europe, over a 3 yr tour on every available holiday (33 days) , weekend (156 days) & vacation time (90 days). Some very close friends did massive upgrades to their old VW camper. They also upgraded the garage to park it under cover! The son commissioned a retro VW camper in addition!. He's already done a western states tour in it!
I seem to still like the MB Sprinter diesel camper concept! While bigger & taller, it will still fit in the South Lake Tahoe garage. I still fancy doing multi trips to any & all 49 states & two or more foreign countries! Some portions of South American continent are hot spots.
Advantage diesels!
They should offer a Sportwagen GTI, and a Sportwagen R or Alltrack R.
They probably should offer a Golf 400 too.
Among other things one could chime in with, this is one anecdotal example of new (2017) car sales that are stalling. Prices of used cars continue falling also.
I wouldn't pay any more than you would for a comparable used car (something under 20K miles)
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It's pretty silent on the used diesels I'm looking for!
That's some hilariously bad drama, maybe not surprising given the self-awareness of that vocation.