>----- Original Message -----
>C. Marin Faure wrote:
>
> But the TD5 has a most
>> annoying habit of jerking and hunting at slower speeds when you let off on
>> the throttle. When driving the winding, hilly roads in the Dales, often
>> in third gear, the engine would stumble and hunt when the throttle was
>> "neutralized," in other words when you weren't making the engine work but
>> you weren't decelerating either.
>
>Marin
>I don't know that is exclusive to the TD5. My V8i Discovery does the same
>thing.
>The jerking is annoying. I usually use a lower gear and higher rpm's.
My father's 240D Mercedes does the same thing, as did the diesel VW
rabbit truck I used to own. Downshifting helps.
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