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| I should have placed a disclaimer in front of my earlier post.....I couldn't diagnose a flat tire....don't ask me for help on anything technical....what I was saying about US gas additives was quoted to me by a VW Technical guy....in his words..(with a very Hans Gruber-like accent) your fuel (they don't call it gas) is corrupted...... | |
| Remind Herr Gruber who won the war, LOL | |
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Coils gone bad, Bad Reputation at the dealers, Squeaks, rattles, 'nuf said! No Thanks! |
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| yeah, well Hans has just passed the Euro to somebody else. Maybe this cold everyone's catching is also fuel related. | |
| good old Hans, puttering all day with a little screwdriver and an eye loupe at $175/hour trying to replace a taillight bulb for some trusting customer, needs to learn something about how high voltage works. if you can sink the current pulses, the system should not melt down if it was properly designed and built. and whether you are running fuel, gasoline, steam, or cowflops through the atomizer in the injector and into the cylinder, as long as the plug sinks that 40,000 volt spark, it won't echo back and forth in the coil windings and build up higher voltages from self-inductance to break down the insulation. | |
| If anyone reads this is considering buying any VW product, especially a Passat -- don't! I'm stuck with a new car that's been in twice in a month for defective coils. The Jetta loaner car the dealer gave me wouldn't even start the next day. I'm in the processing of filing a formal complaint with VW & the NYS Attorney General's office. Bottom line -- I have a new car that no one wants to drive. | |
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bottom line is that some supplier screwed up, VW didn't catch it for too long, and it took even longer to (supposedly) redo the coil line so they can make two in a row that ought to last. the customers are really getting dumped on, and the dealers are caught in the crossfire. if it was me, I'd find another source for coils somehow and slap (four to eight) of 'em in... or carry a couple spare so I could keep driving until repair parts come in and they could swap the stinkers. I have got to believe that the aftermarket supply houses... parts plus, CSK, napa... have got a supplier that knows about the VW debacle and got another company to make knockoffs that work. since VWoA and dealers can't get enough coils to keep the customers on the road, don't know why there isn't a permission letter to put in something else and extend warranty over it as well, just to get on top of the situation before it eats them alive. even if they do have good coils coming off the line now, it's going to take years to get all the dreck out of the sold vehicles... and in that time, everybody will be learning to spit and moan when anybody asks about VW. I would think there's a lot of pressure out there, and they just ought to certify some other sources and turn 'em loose on the problem. got a guy in the office who took two Passats to the dealer over the weekend for coil failure... one was his daughter's and they treated her like something foul on the rug, one was his wife's and they've had eight cars from this dealer with a good rep in the area... and because of the daughter's car, the wife has been reviling the dealer over the phone all day, whenever she gets another idea and some breath back. this can't be good. |
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Well THAT won't work very well. A dealer knows how to "revile back" very skillfully. The dealer is in a "bookend" here and you have to work with them, while very persistently keeping track of progress. |
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| a large part of the relationship I have with my ford dealer is based on discussion and knowing to some extent what is happening with the vehicle, so I don't just go in there and say "it's making THAT noise just like the dishwasher did before the light bulb went out in the garage." they haven't tried to screw me yet, and I haven't tried to send them to a gulag yet. that works for me. | |
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