Date:         Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:28:04 +1100
Reply-To:     Stephen Overmyer <S.OVERMYER@UWS.EDU.AU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stephen Overmyer <S.OVERMYER@UWS.EDU.AU>
Subject:      Re: Best 4 spd Syncro starter replace solution?
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From:    Jonathan Farrugia <jfarrugi@UMICH.EDU>

Take a look at this:

http://www.gowesty.com/starter_story.htm
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what a bunch of snake oil in my opinion.  in 15 years of driving and
working on vws i have never had a starter fail.  on top of that i have
never owned a car with less than 100,000 on the clock.  proper vehicle
service and trouble shooting is what this problem that gowesty is
rattling on about is fixed by.  but gowesty can't work on the whole
countries vanagons since they are in cali so why not sell a magical fix
via the interenet.  the real problem like so many problems on older
vehicles is a failing ground system.

lucas says the following:

<snip>


As far as I'm concerned anybody named Lucas has absolutely NO
credibility when it comes to auto electrics ;-)

Cheers,
Steve O
NSW Australia
'92 Transporter WBX Kombi
'00 Transporter Double Cab
'03 Transporter Double Cab (work truck)
'78 Landrover Series 3 Soft top Ute (ex-Aust.Army...who in a rare
display of military intelligence replaced many of the 
components cursed by the Prince of Darkness with Bosch)