My mechanic won't touch anything but the Bosch rebuilds too.............. Cheers, Doug
On 9/4/08, mdrillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote: > > I always say, get the real Bosch rebuild. Any rebuilder can have a bad > one but the Bosch rebuilds, rebuilt by Bosch and in a Bosch box are the > best bet IMHO. AL33X is the most universal replacement for watercooled > VWs. I get mine at Van-Cafe, a Vanagon community supporter. > > > http://www.van-cafe.com/vanagon_parts.jsp?pa=p&p=750788463&pct=1351036891&ct=1965673259 > > Bus Depot has them on the East Coast. > > > Mark > > > > Jim Felder wrote: > >> Thanks for the info everyone, the reman (to answer Mark's question) >> was bad almost out of the box. I put it on, started it up, and it >> seemed OK. Two days later (today) my wife went to drive it, and >> NOTHING. It had drained the battery so low that it wouldn't even run >> the digital clock! Figure that. >> >> I asked about the wiring earlier because I wanted to make sure I had >> not wired it up wrong. I hadn't. Luckily there was another one in town >> and I got it installed this afternoon. It's the third reman on the >> car, all free after the first one. The one on the car that's working >> now is not the same brand as the bad one I installed previously. >> >> Jim >> >>
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