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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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Replying to: tjburkejr (Nov 01, 2009 7:45 pm) http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov 1. ODI ID Number : 10286347 2.ODI ID Number : 10275729 |
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Replying to: bpeebles (Nov 01, 2009 4:59 pm) "less lead = less weight = lower freight charges to ship the vehicles over the ocean" I hope that was a joke, right? Ro/Ro vessels that haul cars across the Pond are not paid by weight but per unit/car. Many manufacturers (like VW) have their own sub-contracted vessels and shipping costs are appx $ 150.00 per car, regardless of the weight. |
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| I would like to do this through Tirerack.com but they say I have to buy tire pressure monitor sensors. Is there a way to run without them ? I have a 2010 TDI Sportswagon. | |
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Replying to: farmertull (Nov 02, 2009 6:11 am) Theoretically you could make a typo and indicate to tirerack that your car was an 06 without TPMS and then they'd ship you TPMS-free tires/wheels for your "06 TDI" that would coincidentally fit your 09 too.
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Replying to: tjburkejr (Nov 01, 2009 7:45 pm) Quite frankly, if I own another German car, I'd buy a good scanning tool and take care of these warning light resets myself. They seem all too frequent.
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