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Originally Posted by California Travieso
Steve,
Isn't that the TDI Diesel engine that VW put in special software that kicked in to pass inspection and automatically disconnected it after the inspection? Do they still pass inspection?
David Serrano
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TDI stands for "Turbo Direct Injection". These came out about 1991. They were mechanical injection with a simple turbocharger, no tricky software. These are 500,000 mile engines if you change the oil and don't try to run them on putrid french fry oil like the hippies try to do. In 2009 the ingenious software was added to get past the ridiculously strict EPA standards set by tree huggers. By then (2009) these engines had horribly complicated electronic controls so wouldn't work for an engine swap unless you're an electronics engineer.
As an aside, I bought a new TDI Jetta in 2011 A great car. Then the nonsense started in Sept. 2015. VW could not sell any more 2015's (a lot were still on dealer lots). Well, last April VW jumped through EPA's hoops, fixed the 2015's and released them for sale at a $5,000 discount. They were also mandated by a court settlement that they buy back any 2009-2015 TDI if the owner didn't want it. They paid top Blue Book as of early Sept 2015 plus $5100. So I got a 'new' 2015 with 119 miles in place of my 2011 with 94,500 miles for only the cost of sales tax.