I've now spent quite a bit of time with the Jetta. It is the same car from the Randy debacle of years past (no, nothing ever did come of that). I've moved to and from the priries more than once with it carrying my stuff. And if spending is any indicator, I like it more than any of my other hobbies (except maybe drinking, if that is a hobby: discuss). In honour of this, I am renaming the warcode vs. Randy category on the right to Jetta news (besides, Randy has now had more than his share of press).
So I'm going to be a bit forgiving when a little smoke puffs out now and then. Yes, I know this is not all that friendly to the environment, but I'm probably feeling better about it by having a car with fairly low gas consumption, or something. Anyway, that point is moot, as I am now in the process of bringing the Jetta up to the Air Care standards of Bc's Lower Mainland (or, if you like, Greater Vancouver). The first test was quite a failure, but as the car has never seen any kind of emissions control, I have high hopes for the retest.
Also, for those of you in the know, I did finally get that seatbelt repaired this week, so now the driver need no longer buckle into the passenger's belt clasp. Please don't tell anybody how long this was broken.
Posted by warcode at January 11, 2005 09:13 PMwarren, you are the stephen hawking of drinking.
and as for the jetta vs. aircare, here are some things to do:
1 - new plugs
2 - new catalytic converter
3 - new air filter?
4 - methyl hydrate in the gas tank
5 - maybe new o2 sensor?
6 - talk to orion
good luck. go jetta go!
Posted by: michal on January 12, 2005 05:55 PMAnd NOS! You need NOS!
Posted by: tedmunds on January 12, 2005 09:01 PMActually, it looks like the car is more in need of:
7 - new engine that doesn't destroy other parts by leaking oil.
Posted by: warcode on January 12, 2005 10:09 PMor you could put studded tires on so that they automatically have to pass you as they can't put studded tires on the dyno.
I hear they sell NOS kits at Canadian Tire these days...huzzah!
In other news, I drove a newish 2002 Jetta the other day. Drove nice, but the pickup was a little limp. Mind you, it does get like 60 mpg, but I don't think they would like the Ontario winters too much.
Have fun driving the smegma yellow Jetta...
Posted by: bricode on January 13, 2005 05:04 AMTimE: Actually, NO was part of the emissions problem. If only there was some way to harness that to make NOS boosts.
Michal: Did you mentiont this Stephen Hawking thing recently? I sure can't remember.
Posted by: warcode on January 14, 2005 12:41 AMOh yeah, and I forgot to say that your ideas were good, Michal. I did talk to Orion at some point. And the O2 sensor has apparently "been tampered with" at some stage, who knows when.
Posted by: warcode on January 14, 2005 12:44 AM