Date:         Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:04:45 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: engine dying while driving
Comments: To: Richard Jones <jones@COLORADO.EDU>
In-Reply-To:  <4D8FD601.6080907@colorado.edu>
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At 08:27 PM 3/27/2011, Richard Jones wrote:
>I disagree that this seems like classic vanagon syndrome.
>Classic vanagon syndrome happens after steady pedal on the
>highway for some extended period of time.  Think level
>interstate highway at 65 mph for 15 minutes.

*YES*  That's Vanagon Syndrome, and that's why VW issued the tech
bulletin and invented the IMO overcomplicated pigtail (and, for a
while, gave it away).  And it happened to me in an '84 on a long
straight road in Scotland in 1991,  AFAIK long before VW issued the
bulletin to cover 2.1l, let alone 1.9l.

However, the $$ pigtail cure - or the $2 capacitor cure - will also
cover a multitude of ills in the way of noisy track on the AFM, so it
can really stretch out the life of an AFM.  Other than the cost or
aggravation, it's all win.

Yours,
David