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Undertoad · 03-31-2005, 12:56 PM

Eh Bubba, do you guys do body work?

I gave Devon Hill an hour of mechanic time to find my rattle in my 95 GTI VR6 and they didn't find it. To be fair the car has to be driven hard to hear it correctly. Lumberjim heard it when he drove it for a day. I think it's body-related.

There's zero trust between owner and service dep't, but it goes both ways. My car suffered a massive electrical failure about a year into owning it. At that time there was no vwvortex, just a VR6 e-mail list. The people on the list were fanatical about sharing service information. This cause of failure was identifed by them as a specific wiring harness. When I called Devon Hill the next morning to explain why there was a dead VR6 in their parking lot, and what the mailing list had to say about the harness, the guy was non-plussed. They diagnosed it as something entirely different and replaced the battery and sent me on my way. A few days later the weak harness killed the new battery AND took the entire dashboard with it.

03-31-2005, 12:56 PM	#39
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Eh Bubba, do you guys do body work? I gave Devon Hill an hour of mechanic time to find my rattle in my 95 GTI VR6 and they didn't find it. To be fair the car has to be driven hard to hear it correctly. Lumberjim heard it when he drove it for a day. I think it's body-related. There's zero trust between owner and service dep't, but it goes both ways. My car suffered a massive electrical failure about a year into owning it. At that time there was no vwvortex, just a VR6 e-mail list. The people on the list were fanatical about sharing service information. This cause of failure was identifed by them as a specific wiring harness. When I called Devon Hill the next morning to explain why there was a dead VR6 in their parking lot, and what the mailing list had to say about the harness, the guy was non-plussed. They diagnosed it as something entirely different and replaced the battery and sent me on my way. A few days later the weak harness killed the new battery AND took the entire dashboard with it.