RE: Summary of 1998 VR6 problems?

[mikeandcarmen <mikeandcarmen@pdq.net>]

Hey Andy,

I have a '98 GLX, & it has been very reliable.  The only problems I have had 
with the car are:  1) A loose feeling just off center in the steering wheel.  
I think a tie rod end is a little loose.  2) The driver's seat is a little 
loose.  This is mostly because my wife & I both drive the car frequently, & I 
am about one foot taller than she is.  Therefore, we are rather hard on the 
seat adjusting mechanisms.  By the way, I bought my car in February, & it has 
9,000 miles on it so far.

You may want to mention to your friend that one of the main reasons for the 
existence of an e-mail list such as this is to discuss problems we are having 
with our cars in hopes that someone else on the list has had a similar 
experience & can lend some insight.  Therefore, it should be expected that 
many of the archives would contain messages of this nature.

Later!

Michael Keith
Pasadena, TX
'98 Jetta GLX
'85 Golf SCCA ITB/DSP
>===== Original Message From jettaglx@igtc.com =====
>     Hi, interesting thing happened to me today that made me look at our
>     cars from a different perspective.  There is this guy at work that
>     just bought a brand new 1998 Jetta GLX.  I droped him a line to let
>     him know that I had a GLX too and to make him aware of all the
>     resources on the net.   Well I heard back from him after he looked at
>     a few of the archives and his question to me was "do these cars have a
>     reliabily problem?"  Most of the archieves he read were "I love car,
>     BUT have had this, that and the other thing go wrong."
>        My point is to outsiders our cars look like a piece of crap.  I
>     know this isn't exactally accurate but what should I tell him.  My
>     1995 has had its share of problems, but they don't really apply to the
>     1998's anymore.
>        Could owners of 1998's write me with the problems these cars are
>     having so I can let him know what to look for.  A few come to mind, of
>     course the O2A transmition problems, the EDL traction control causing
>     TFS.  What else?  Does the ABS light still come on, and is there cold
>     stalling?, or was that a 1997 thing only.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Andy Atwell