Threepeat

Apparently I like VW. I've now entered into my third relationship with Volkswagen and their 2006 Jetta TDI, which looks remarkably like the photo here:

I already miss my rear window wiper, but otherwise it's got tons of new bells and whistles to distract me. Navigational computer, XM Radio, Seat Position Memory, four doors, back seat cup holders, super large trunk, and I don't know what else.

With all of that it may be surprising that the first thing on my list is to get a better understanding of how a diesel engine works. It is bugging me, a bit, that I can't conceptualize what is going on under my hood. In high-school I took a semester of auto shop, and I came away understanding the standard gas engine, and the wankel engine too, but we didn't cover diesel, and it's nagging my brain in a big way.

After that I will most likely find every setting that can be tweaked, and enter some of my favorite addresses in the Navigational system, or just sit and inhale the new car smell...