Who Makes the CRD Turbo?

RFCRD · **Posted:** Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:11 pm

Goglio704 wrote:

Never did the EHM to mine. No EGR on the 79 so the engine oil didn't have soot to act as a binder in the intake. My Nissans are what really taught me about EGR soot and oil clogging the intake.

It wasn't a matter of soot. I had the air filter housing off one day to change their joke of a fuel filter. Grabbed the ring of the intake casting and got a handfull of goo. I had never seen a CCV on a diesel before (was 25 at the time) but knew this was not a good idea. Cleaned up the goo and did the EHM, noticed an immediate difference in smoothness and clatter/noise at an idle. That monster of a car ('81 Bonniville) was a contsistant 29mpg cruiser. We used it for a chase car for my bus company for several years so it saw a lot of 600 mile days (which it would do on a single tank).

Goglio704 · **Posted:** Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:40 pm

Back on the topic of the thread... How do we know the turbo is a Garrett? Is their name on it somewhere? Not arguing, just curious about the source of the info.

Ranger1 · **Joined:** Mon Oct 17, 2005 7:40 pm **Posts:** 1137

It's stamped right on the compressor housing.

KenJennings · **Posted:** Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:55 pm

oldnavy wrote:

KenJennings wrote:

... DCX only cares that dealers move volume. Dealers only care that their sales weenies move volume. The sales weenies assume nobody else knows squat about cars and us consumers should feel grateful for whatever they choose for us. ....

The sad thing is that this is pretty much true ablout sales and and a lot of times includes the service staff. When I bought our CRD the salesman did not even attempt to explain anything about the diesel and stuck with the basic info about the Jeep, probably because we were trading in a diesel VW.

But then I have seen the same thing here on this forum where it concerns the CRD and why they quite selling the CRD. People seem to think that it would be impossible to make the VM meet '07 EPA requirements and that is why they dropped the CRD engine. I still say it was engine supply to start with, because most dealers were asking for them instead of gassers by time '06 models came out.

I still think we will see the CRD back for '07 UNLESS:

1. they consider it too costly to add the special exhuast system (particulate filters) or

2. current underbody design does not have the room for the system.

I think that one or both of those reasons would kill the CRD in Liberty, because the Liberty is a basic low buget SUV.
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Well, I also hope the guh-ment jerks responsible for the emissions standards aren't going to turn around and make the diesel emissions standard even more impossible to meet.