So What鈥檚 The Diesel Like, Then?
You鈥檒l never, ever learn the language, which sounds like Scandinavian played backwards and bubbled through bath water, and your taste buds will find it equally hard to come to terms with the food. Into this absorbing environment, Volkswagen introduced a fleet of Phaetons, complete with more chauffeurs than Iceland has policemen (honest), in which I spent marginally more time than the car I鈥檇 turned up to drive. Oh do get on with it! Sorry. And then it struck me鈥?They did all this on purpose. So little of import has changed between Golfs MkV and VI that the latest iteration was in desperate need of a USP. Allied to a huge hike in interior quality, the MkVI has indeed been soundproofed senseless to seriously good effect. Ironically, the only gripe remaining is that they鈥檝e thrown out the blue back-lighting to the instrumentation in favour of white. Surely that was something of a Golf USP in its own right.
So what鈥檚 the diesel like, then? They say this is a new 138bhp version of VW鈥檚 2.0 litre common-rail turbodiesel, yet it instantly feels as familiar as your favourite pants. From just 1750rpm a slug of 236lb ft of torque elicits predictable urge, particularly when mated here to the group鈥檚 admirable six-speed, twin-clutch DSG gearbox, which slurs both up and down changes with greased eel alacrity. Thing is, however, faced with stiff competition from VW鈥檚 delicious 1.4 litre twincharger unit, I鈥檓 increasingly less inclined to favour the diesel option. Not really. This is a respectable looking hatchback, but certainly no prettier than its predecessor. There鈥檚 a whole raft of people out there who are never going to settle for anything other than a Golf, and they won鈥檛 be disappointed with the MKVI. In striving for interior refinement and hush levels matching higher segment cars, VW have been admirably successful. And the fact that just a whiff of verve seems lacking on the dynamic front isn鈥檛 going to perturb the Golf customer heartland in the slightest. Good, but the 158bhp 1.4 TSI version is better.
Donate your used goods to the resources on this list that will reuse them in and around the San Francisco Bay area and outside the bay area, including other states. They will take almost anything that needs recycling. It's great for those leftover yard sale or garage sale items. There are some specific places that take ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Some of the non-ferrous metals would be cable wires, insulated cable, ACSR, Aluminum BX, telephone wire, and tech and robot cable to name a few. You can always try your local recycling scrap metal yard first, but if that doesn't work, there are some specialty places that I found online that I've included. Silver cadmium can be recycled at smelters and refiners, which takes: silver cadmium powder, silver solder, silver oxide, silver brazing wire, and silver forklift contacts. You can see a full list of the recyclable products of Silver Cadmium at "Specialty Metals".
This same company also takes Platinum, Palladium, and Rhodium. Scrap silver is taken at refining companies like: RF connectors, silver reflectors, optics, mirrors, silver chloride, silver sulphide, ash, silver flake, shot, bullion, and dust. One such company recycling scrap silver is The Refining Company Inc. That same company also takes Gold Plate items like: connector pins, sheet of spacers, processor cores, fiber optic pick-up cable, and squares from component manufacturing. Their gold plated materials page is here. Silver plate is a little harder to get rid of, and some antiques are worth more as a tea set than scrap metal prices. Your local scrap metal yard (not the same as the landfill) will usually take the less specific metals and the more common household items like aluminum wheels, chrome hubcaps, copper, brass, and car parts such as radiators and catalytic converters. Scrap metal yards pay by each number (flat rate) or pay by weight, and some of the specialty places (listed above) pay too. There are several places that will accept eWaste with regards to ink cartridges and pay you for it, while others may prefer your surplus, new print cartridges.
