Happy Yankees – so they should be!

Greetings and salutations from Jim Gullicks in Munster, Indiana, USA. The sun is still shining here, even though Donald Trump is our new president. The sky has not come down, even though Trump has a dead cat velcroed to his head, Ha Ha! I am still reading Diesel Car with my tablet and it works […]
Limping home

I have taken my ’59 plate Scirocco, which I have had from new, back to the main Volkswagen dealers, as the engine warning light came on after it went into limp mode. The car is a Scirocco GT TDI 140 with 69,000 miles on the clock. They have informed me that it needs a new […]
New wheels for Bill

Dear Doc, I regret that this may be my last communication in relation to my Vengaís appetite for winter diesel. (We shall all miss your updates! Doc.) I will shortly be swapping it for a Mazda 2 diesel, first registered March 2016, and with 7,000 odd miles on the clock. Despite your reservations about the […]
North of the Border

It’s really good to see Diesel Car keeping up with developments in alternative fuel in Eco Car, and I have a feeling that in a year or two there’s going to be a sudden uptake of electric vehicles ñ something that the government could easily accelerate, if they only used some money sensibly to encourage […]
Easy Rider?

I have a Ford Mondeo 1.6 TDCi, 2011 year, previous to which I had a Mondeo 2001 2.0 TDdi, which had a lovely comfortable ride over the bumps. This lighter engined one gives a hard ride over the bumps though, and I was wondering if you could suggest some softer springs? The spring thickness is […]