Re: MEETING OUTTA STATE LIST MEMBER

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

For this mod all you have to do is remove the air condition panel(the panel
with the three knobs only) and remove the black tape covering the air
condition word.
John Hopkins
98 Porcelain GLX
Q-CHIP
Advanced Air Intake
UF stress bar
-----Original Message-----
From: cyng <cyng@lamere.net>
To: jettaglx@igtc.COM <jettaglx@igtc.COM>
Date: Wednesday, July 15, 1998 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: MEETING OUTTA STATE LIST MEMBER


>>I've never heard of the "air condition tape mod."  Please fill me in on
this
>>or any other low & no cost mods.  The only one I've done is the air box
>>sound baffle mod, but I've been too damn busy with my race car to mess
with
>>the Jetta any more than that.
>This one was thrown about on the list a few months ago.
>   On your climate control console are the words "Air Condition" or some
>rot.
>These words do not "glow" when your lights are on, when the rest of the
>interior lights go on. Somebody got curious as to why, and pried the plate
>that covers the climate controls off and discovered a length of black tape
>which had been affixed to the back of the plate, keeping light from coming
>through these letters. Remove the tape. Whee!
>   Other simple low & no cost mods? I can only think of two, one of which
>being the removal of that damned, easily-clogged mesh screen inside of the
>bottom half of the airbox (where the elbow tube connects), and the other
>being the simple air ducting/custom intake modification which I outlined
>in
>a very verbose and rambling letter not too long ago. I might be able to
>find and send a "reprint" to you if you'd deleted it. It's not the
>greatest
>of jobs ever done, but it was one of the first things I've done like that
>(yeah, I'm not the greatest mechanic int he world). If you can find any
>way
>to improve on my "design," go ahead and let me know, because I pretty much
>suck.
>   -T
>
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