Re: Summary of 1998 VR6 problems?

["John Hopkins" <vergeo@email.msn.com>]

Zeek I 've had my 98 GLX since feb and I have not had any problems that all
of the other list members have had.  Maybe you guys dog your cars and create
these problems.
-----Original Message-----
From: zeek the geek <zeek@texas.net>
To: jettaglx@igtc.COM <jettaglx@igtc.COM>
Date: Thursday, August 20, 1998 5:56 PM
Subject: RE: Summary of 1998 VR6 problems?


>Oh great. Now you're going to get a whole rash of emails from people
telling you all the
>problems they've had... And looking at all those emails you're going to
come to the
>conclusion that our cars are pieces of crap because nobody's going to write
and tell you
>they've had absolutely NO problems with their car.
>Well your data's going to be skewed. Nobody ever says anything unless it's
a complaint.
>How many people go to a psychiatrist to tell him/her how happy they are?
Who ever
>emails this list to let us know they're _not_ having any problems? You
never go into
>the dealership to tell them how great your GLX is running, do you?
>From a psychiatrist's point of view the world is full of unhappy crazy
people.
>
>
>BTW- My GLX is running like a dream. Reliability issues? Yeah right. I must
be the lucky one.
>
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>17" BBS RX Dunlop sp8000
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-jettaglx@igtc.COM [mailto:owner-jettaglx@igtc.COM]On Behalf
>> Of ANDREW_ATWELL@HP-PaloAlto-om20.om.hp.com
>> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 4:36 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
>>
>>
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