Late last week the front wheel bearing on my Jetta finally packed it in, with a pleasant howling sound. Knowing this was on the horizon, I'd already scoped a few shops, including the dealer, who could press the bearing in for me. I pulled the hub assembly & dropped it off at Beetle AutoHaus in Victoria this morning. Picked it up, $26 labour (1/2 hr) + $29 for the bearing. Ok. Better than 1.8hrs labour for them to do it, I thought. I get home tonight, haven't lunch today, but decide to do it before dinner, since it only took 15-20 minutes to pull it, I figure it'll be a cinch... (1.8hrs they said...) Well, it would've been, but obviously this particular VW *specialty* shop does not have all them fancy tools shown in the Bentley, 'cause they screwed up the driveshaft splines when they pressed the bearing in!! Argh. So I spent 25 minutes carefully filing the splines to fit the drive shaft, then only 10 minutes putting it all back together. I hate to be overly negative, but I have *yet* to pay any so-called pro to work on my VWs, and NOT have them screw it up somehow. Do I have bad karma or what?
Shawn & Janis Wright '88 Westy (338k) '85 Jetta TD (367k) VWnut@smus.bc.ca (swright@smus.bc.ca) http://www.islandnet.com/~swright/vw.html
|
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.