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3757 messages, Last post on Dec 07, 2009 at 4:45 PM
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Nov 01, 2009 10:03 am)
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Replying to: m6user (Nov 01, 2009 11:48 am) Also, there's a glow plug system to support, in addition to all the usual amenities of modern cars. I'd expect the alternator to be different as well. . |
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Nov 01, 2009 12:24 pm)
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What is the capacity of manual transaxle for 2006 Jetta TDI? Also, what designation, i.e. SAE 80W-90, 75W-90, API GL-4? Thanks!
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Replying to: m6user (Nov 01, 2009 2:01 pm) Check this link, if you are interested to learn more. Lead-acid batteries will soon disappear! http://www.themanufacturer.com/us/profile/204/Johnson_Controls |
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Replying to: m6user (Nov 01, 2009 2:01 pm) NOTE: Most batteries are priced such that the COST is the same for a given "grade" battery. This means, people with "gasser" VWs can ask to have the TDI battery installed and the COST will not be any different than installing the origial-sized battery. I have done this on virtually every "gasser" VW I have owned since my 1979 VW Scirocco.
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Replying to: m6user (Nov 01, 2009 9:28 am) I found it amazing that a battery smaller than my motorcycle-battery could start that engine.... but that is the magic of a $230 battery. Personally, I will stick with $80 LA batteries in my road-going vehicles. They last over 5 years even thru Vermont winters starting the engine at -15F.
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Replying to: chuckycheese (Nov 01, 2009 2:05 pm) RedLine MT90 comes in a close 2nd.\ As for capacity... I do not have the factory service manual in front of me but I seem to recall the capacity is 2L |
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Replying to: bpeebles (Nov 01, 2009 5:04 pm) But not glow plugs---they are a heavy draw, which is why they carry a what....80 amp fuse? 50 amps? Something like that. My Benz diesel needed 80 amp fusing. |
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I have a 2009 Jetta TDI with 6,700 miles. I have now had dashboard warning lights come on twice, the first for emissions and the second, now, for an airbag fault. I live in Colorado, where we just had a freak autumn snowstorm of about 20 inches. The airbag fault light came on around then. I thought the sensor might just have got wet. It was a lot of snow. When I took the vehicle to the dealer for the first emissions light incident, the tech said he couldn't reproduce the fault. He told me that the computer will find what it thinks is a fault, turn on a warning light, and then keeps on testing. If it can't reproduce the circumstance that caused the fault light to go on the first time, it turns itself out. Is this true? If so, I wonder if the airbag fault light is the same sort of thing. Any ideas on how to avoid killing a day with the car at the dealer for every time a fault light comes on and probably doesn't mean anything significant?
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