Re: 20k service

["Michael & Carmen Keith" <mikeandcarmen@pdq.net>]

A friend of mine was experiencing a similar problem with his A1 GTI, & Mahan
(the biggest VW dealer here in Houston) could not diagnose it.  He started
poking around himself & found one of the camber bolts at the bottom of the
strut to be bad.  He bought a new one, & it instantly solved the problem.
I'm not sure how much A1's & A3's have in common as far as suspension design
is concerned, but it may be worth a little poking around.

Also, the dealer may not have torqued everything sufficiently when they
straightened your wheel.

Either way, while the U-turn you describe is an extreme maneuver, it should
not cause you steering wheel to move off-center.  Take your car back; the
dealer didn't do their job.

Michael Keith
Pasadena, TX
'98 Jetta GLX
'85 Golf SCCA ITB/DSP
-----Original Message-----
From: Talitmon@aol.com <Talitmon@aol.com>
To: jettaglx@igtc.com <jettaglx@igtc.com>
Date: Friday, October 02, 1998 8:21 PM
Subject: 20k service


>I just had my 20k service on my 97 GLX, they did the usual.  They finally
>ordered a new part for my window to solve the grease marks on my passenger
>window.  I posted a while back that my stearing wheel was off-center and
>a couple people responded that theirs had become off-center also....well
>my rambling is leading to the reason why my steering wheel had become
>off center. .........The dealer straightened it out, and was in the process
>of meeting my girlfriend at a coffeehouse, as we left she forgot her purse
>as I whipped my car into a u-turn juiced the throttle in 1st, and chirped
the
>tires into 2nd ( the whole time I was not in a straight line ) after I hit
>2nd, I had
>realized that the wheel was no longer in-center.....So I guess that's how
>mine became off-center, maybe some of you have experienced the same,
>and sorry for the rambling...........
>
>Talat
>97 GLX
>Blk/Blk