RE: Summary of 1998 VR6 problems?

[Brian Wanamaker <bwanamaker@sofsol.com>]

My 98 GLX runs great! My only complaints are the stupid cup holders and
the hard-to-hit horn buttons. Not too bad, I'd say.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	ANDREW_ATWELL@HP-PaloAlto-om20.om.hp.com
> [SMTP:ANDREW_ATWELL@HP-PaloAlto-om20.om.hp.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, August 20, 1998 5:36 PM
> To:	gti-vr6@dev.tivoli.com; jettaglx@igtc.COM
> Subject:	Summary of 1998 VR6 problems?
> 
>      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