Date:         Tue, 19 Oct 1999 13:59:05 -0400
Reply-To:     Pierre A Lachance <palachance@CCAPCABLE.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Pierre A Lachance <palachance@CCAPCABLE.COM>
Subject:      "auto" biography and filters
Content-type: MULTIPART/ALTERNATIVE;

I really hope that I am not the one and only that started all this polemic about oil filters ??? Two weeks ago, I wrote that I had my engine rebuilt last year with a new long block etc etc at a Vw dealer for 4K$ cdn and they had told me never to put another oil filter than the Vw Audi  070 115 561 or if not available, a Bosch. More, if I wanted my  head gaskets to hold, only the VW coolant  should be used !!! but you know dealers... they want to sell their products... but I have to tell you all, that my girlfriend of 19 years has been working for a VW dealer for the same length of time, and the 15 last years as a sale representative ( average: 135 cars a year ), so she is the  " boss" ...( to all those men that have wives or girlfriends that do not like VWs, I have to make sacrifices elsewhere? ).   This filter "thing" restarted when I came back home with a new Fram " Double Guard" filter, that was on sale (9.99$) . When she saw it, she said: " you are not going to put this on Zephyr, are you ? no, I bought it to put on the living room mantel !!!  So...I did return it to the store and drove to the dealer...for a 070... So we are  a happy couple again, just for a filter !  By the way, a vanagon friend on this site told me that Bosch filters were made by Fram... sorry, they are made by Champ ( is Champ owned by Fram ?) in the States for all of North America...Also,   I once said to somebody on this site that I have had 15 VWs...Sorry, that was 11 when I recounted (+ 4 english cars ) and I am still trying to understand them and  also understand myself to keep buying them  ( the old ones )??? but I drive and tried most of the newer models since we have to rent one from the Vw dealer as a test car, and we do love the New Beetle, and hope that everyone of you will have the chance to test drive one. I forgot: this is not the site for " auto" biographies, 1000 excuses.
pierre a.lachance
lac beauport, que
zephyr 85 and others

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