Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 15:49:07 +0200
Reply-To: Max Fenner <max.fenner@BERLIN.DE>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Max Fenner <max.fenner@BERLIN.DE>
Subject: Re: Burned FI wiring
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>1980 Vanagon is cooking the fuel injector wires on 3 cylinders. Towed it
>to the VW Dealer on Monday AM. Monday PM he said it was repaired. It ran
>for 5 miles and was kaput. Towed it back and they fixed it two more times
>and test drove it and had to pull it back both times. Now they have
>decided their mechanics are incompetent on FI systems on Vanagons and
>have farmed it out to an independent VW garage.
>
>Has anyone got any idea what is going on with it and causing it to cook
>the FI wires in such a way that the incompetent VW mechanics at the VW
>dealer cannot figure it out?
>
Hello Victor ,
a couple of years ago my van stopped working - I did notice a hard klong
noise from the back but thought it was related to some wheel mechanics or
so and had it checked.The shop said everything fine than the car stopped
alltogether.
I learned so far that this sound is the first sympyom of a bad injector.
The story that unfolded from there was horrible :
car got towed and the mechanics started to work on the system.
replaced the wires, fuel pumps a whole lot of things - didn't work.
And then they farmed out the job to a VW Dealer in CT - wow what a bunch of
morons they were, quoted me some $1500 via my shop the computer would be
bad.
It appeared to me that everybody was trying to sytematically replace every
component hoping it would do the trick !
They had no clue... "we are No.1 VW service facility..."
In short this farming out is a bad idea, you should be the one customer who
deals with one competent facility and there is the issue of contractual
legal situations and warranty.
As so often with the Vanagon it is merely a matter of something tiny and
stupid that you need to find
(in my case a $60 injector and the right tests did it...) if you let others
tinker you end up spending a lot and not necessarily in the right direction.
This list and the attitude that suits me has made my car reliable and
inexpensive to maintain, however be aware, let us know where you live I am
sure someone can recommend competence in your area and/or the right path to
fix the problem.
Onkel Max
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