How Much Power Does the Volkswagen TDI Lose in “Cheater” Mode?

Re:How Much Power Does the Volkswagen TDI Lose in “Cheater” ... by marincounty on Saturday October 03, 2015 @09:04AM (#10323728)

Good post! Years ago I had a slight head gasket leak, and needed to drive the vechicle just one more day before I took the head off and did the nasty job.

I had a little bit of extra smoke comming out of the tail pipe, and I got pulled over by a Police Officer. I told the officer, the extra smoke was mainly water vapor, but was still expecting a ticket.

Well, the officer said he used to be a mechanic, and knew I was likely telling the truth. He let me off with a warning.

I think those days are over though. I have seen people freak out over the wiff of cigarette smoke. Yesterday, I heard this lady yelling at a janitor over bleach smell. She squelched , "You're giving me cancer!". I don't think he understood English, and was probally better off?

I'm all for cleaning up the air, but people need to educate themselves on what exactly is going to give them, or the environment problems.

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Re:How Much Power Does the Volkswagen TDI Lose in “Cheater” ... by sandworm101 on Saturday October 03, 2015 @12:09PM (#10324338)

A leaky head gasket will usually produce a white smoke that smells a bit like pot smoke. That's the ethylene glycol in the antifreez/coolant being burnt.

The new anti-bleach craze is laughable. I had one woman at the local dog beach tell me "You know bleach is the same chlorine they use in swimming pools and we know that stuff causes cancer." I spend at least an hour a day swimming laps. Have done so since I was eight. And I at one point lived in a country where we regularly added small amounts of bleach to drinking water to disinfect it. If chlorine causes cancer I am doomed.

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