lt1fire
SILVER Star
tell him its a "I know you've been hot rodding that rig an now your warranty is void" alarm
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Strange, but I kind of like it.Just when you think you have seen everything. I had a text from a customer today "Why are my gauge rings copper" I ask what he is talking about, he tells me the bezels, the gauge bezels are copper colored. So I called him, "Bored today are you, nothing better to do than hassle me on a Wed afternoon"
So he sends me a text with this photo. DAMN, those bezels were black, I have a picture of them when they were just installed. Notice how the tach bezel looks antique brass on the bottom. I called SpeedHut and they are aware of the problem, a UV issue with the black coating. The Tach is not getting as much sun.
SpeedHut is sending me new bezels, but they have not figured out a solution yet. I'll be painting them black and sending them to my customer, after I set them out in the sun for a while. I have four sets of SpeedHut gauges sitting here in the same color.
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so i purchased a little USB charger port to replace the cigarette light socket in the rear of the center console on the Ferd.
shows battery voltage and works pretty good.
ok, driving down the road i get a TPSM error. everything seems fine, i pull off at the next exit and check the tire pressure all good. hop back on the road and everything is fine the rest of the trip. (didn't plug my phone back into the charger). long story short i figure out the after about 25 minutes of driving with my phone charging (or any other device) will cause the TPMS failure. after some internet searching the USB charger is so noisy when in use that it jams the signal from the rear tires and after 20 minutes of no signal the error happens. if i unplug a device from the usb port the error goes away within a couple minutes.
go figure....
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Finally back together. Rides better than ever. These bearings were probably shot when I bought this used many years ago. I will start replacing every 3 years or so and no more deep water.
You can likely fix that with a cheap inductor choke for audio components. Worth a shot if you want to keep it.
Wish I still had ours. I should have bit the bullet and got the cam tool.
We most definitely spent more on repairs on our 2000 TDI Jetta in just the first 6 months after the warranty ran out than I paid for my most recent Cruiser (LX470). Never again, VW. Fool me once...I dont love that ive replaced more parts due to failure on it than all my other cars ever, combined.
It seems like the thing they do best is make pedestrians out of their owners.
My first car was a '71 VW bug... I pushed that thing more miles than I ever drove it. It would leave me stranded all the time and I had to plan to walk home if I was going to drive it. I know they are simple machines but at 16 I didn't have the tools or knowledge to repair it so it just sat. I vowed to NEVER own another VW and so far I've held true to that. No experience with the water-cooled or diesels because of that