RE: another cold question...

[Alexxi Cini <alexxi@magma.ca>]

Swap the seats one night !! : )

At 08:10 AM 1/19/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I have the same thing but it's my seat damn it. The wife stays warm while my
>butt takes a beating.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alexxi Cini [mailto:alexxi@magma.ca]
>Sent: January 19, 2000 6:22 AM
>To: jettaglx@igtc.com
>Subject: RE: another cold question...
>
>
>I put Redline in my Mazda's tranny after the old one exploded. I never had
>a problem with shifting in the cold right down to -30 temp. My A3 is a
>little stiff in the morning to shift and I can hear some kind of gurgling
>noise from under the hood. It goes away when I depress the clutch. [Which
>is weird , I figured it was coolant circulating]
>
>Heated seats are great, too bad the passenger side doesn't work.  Is there
>a fuse for this I can check ?
>
>
>
>At 03:57 PM 1/18/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >When my car was all stock, shifting, regardless of temperature, was pretty
> >good. I have the AWE short shifter now, and Redline MT90 tranny fluid. This
> >combination seems to be much more sensitive to temperature changes. In the
> >summer shifting is smooth and tight from the get-go. Now with the cold
> >weather (I'm in CT) I'm arm wrestling with the shifter to get it into 2nd.
> >After a few minutes, though, when the car is all warmed up, shifting is
>back
> >to normal.
> >
> >HTH
> >Kevin Ng
> >97 GLX Windsor Blue
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Eddie [SMTP:axr11@po.cwru.edu]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 3:33 PM
> > > To:   jettaglx@igtc.com
> > > Subject:      another cold question...
> > >
> > > i just got my car 2 months ago, and it's finally getting really cold
>here
> > > in boston. i was just wondering whether it is normal for the manual
> > > transmission to feel much stiffer when shifting than normal while the
>car
> > > is cold (clutch is same).
> > >
> > > also, does anyone else have problems shifting into first occasionally?
> > > (regardless of temperature)
> > >
> > > Thanks.