Date:         Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:05:12 -0400
Reply-To:     The Bus Depot <ron@netcarrier.com>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         The Bus Depot <ron@netcarrier.com>
Subject:      Re: hall sender & cold start & tempII
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> Yup... Bus Depot is wrong. I bought the wrong one for my syncro
> (it's hardly worth returning it). I'm surprised TBD hasn't updated their
web site. I
> assumed mention on the list as well as my direct email would have prompted
> that.


Guilty. This was a case where I was listened to my distributor and should
have done more research on my own.  I actually got two reports from
customers that the sensor was wrong, so I brought them to the attention of
my VDO/Bosch distributor.  The distributor checked their books, got back to
me, and emphatically swore up and down that they were correct and that I
must be crazy.  They told me they'd been selling them for Syncros for years
without any complaints (and, sure enough, a five year old copy of their
parts book that I had listed the 041A as fitting a Syncro). I should have
followed up further rather than just taking their word, given that two
customers had commented on it, but I guess I took the lazy way out and let
them convince me. Then, recently, a third person reported the same error, so
last week I put in a call to my source at Volkswagen to see what he said,
but hadn't heard back yet.  In any case, if anyone got the wrong one in the
recent past, let me know and I'll credit the purchase price toward your next
order.  No need to send it back, just pass it on it to a deserving 2wd
Vanagon owner.  Meanwhile, now that I know what the correct one is, I'll
indeed change it on the website.

- Ron Salmon
  The Bus Depot, Inc.
  http://www.busdepot.com
  (215) 234-VWVW