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From: goudreau@dg_rtp.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Diesel-powered Cars - My dollars worth
Message-ID: <114@dg_rtp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 18:31:46 EST
Article-I.D.: dg_rtp.114
Posted: Mon Jan 27 18:31:46 1986
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References: <1553@ihlpg.UUCP> <2052@akgua.UUCP> <2773@ihuxf.UUCP> <11398@watnot.UUCP> <494@eneevax.UUCP> <11407@watnot.UUCP>
Reply-To: goudreau@dg_rtp.UUCP (Bob Goudreau)
Organization: Data General, RTP North Carolina
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Keywords: Care. Patience. Batman. Diesel. German.

In article <11407@watnot.UUCP> dbrichards@watnot.UUCP (the vegit man) writes:
>In article <494@eneevax.UUCP> hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) writes:
>>In article <11398@watnot.UUCP> dbrichards@watnot.UUCP (the vegit man) writes:
>>>
>>>Gosh, Mike, I think you MUST be talking about those American diesels:-). My
>>>dad's 300D puffs smoke only when you REALLY step on it (usu. highway passing),
>>>and even then, the volume of the smoke is small (a cloud about the size of ...
>>>a portable 12" [30cm] TV set).  Smell? Well, it DOES smell (doesn't everything?)
>>>but it smells a LOT nicer than the exhaust from our 81-model European (non- 
>>>Diesel) sedan, whose emission-controlled exhaust consistently makes me gag.
>>>
>>> - Dennis
>>
>>Gee, Dennis, who at home gets to wash the circular scum marks off the
>>left-rear of the Benz?  :-)
>>
>>-dave
>
>Well, Dave, it's like this:
>	1) The fuel port is on the RIGHT rear of the car. :-)
>	2) One DOESN'T spill Diesel on a Benz. Period.
>	3) When the unthinkable DOES happen, one wipes it off. Promptly.
>I can't remember there ever being any serious (or more than minor) problems
>with regard to fuel spillage.
>
> - Dennis

Sorry Dennis, but I don't think Dave was talking about fuel spillage;
he probably meant exhaust residue.  My family had one of the infamous
GM late-70s diesels, and the crap that build up below and behind the
exhaust pipe was tremendous.  It doesn't wash off that easily either.

Bob Goudreau