Date:         Tue, 28 Apr 1998 14:29:03 -0700
Reply-To:     Ray Hunnam <hunnam@PNC.COM.AU>
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From:         Ray Hunnam <hunnam@PNC.COM.AU>
Organization: RAYJEN Security
Subject:      Re: fuel injectors
Comments: To: Darrell Boehler <dboehler@TAOS.MIDWEST.NET>
Comments: cc: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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Darrell

VW of Australia sent me a recall notice in 1996 with the following and I quote
their words " In accordance  with the Recall Code of Practice, Volkswagen
advises that your Transporter identified above, Model Year 1990 - 1991, may have
fuel injectors where the sealing of the electrical coil may allow the ingress of
moisture, which may cause the injectors to malfunction with the result of the
engine misfiring or in some cases circumstances stalling."  etc etc.

Result they worked on my fuel system and REPLACED the injectors and connectors
entirely lock stock and barrel.  To me it sounded like a bit more was involved
that what they had written to me.

A friend who works for a VW Dealership out here suggested that the recall was
due to a faulty batch of injectors that had a habit of blowing the fuel lines.
Possible fire risk so VW recalled the entire batch.  This was never admitted
though as one can see from the letter.

Still I no complain.  I get new injectors just when I was going to pull them
down and have them cleaned anyway.

Ray.

Darrell Boehler wrote:

> -------------------
> Hi fellow vwers,
>
>     I recently saw several posts about fi ( fuel injectors )  recall ,    I
> had a little extra time today so I pulled mine from my 86 , cleaned and
> checked the flow rate and found them to be a  matched set,  after 233k.
> miles.  I have found sets with a lot of variance on busses , but these had
> exactly the same flow rate.   Makes me wonder what is  the problem with them
> and why vw has a recall . Anyone know  the details on the  fi recall?
>
> Darrell Boehler
> Makanda Illinois