Re: Please help quick...

["Dallan Rees" <whiteglx@hotmail.com>]

If you are scared about voiding your warrenty..put the stock chip back in 
before taking it in...


>From: Eddie <axr11@po.cwru.edu>
>Reply-To: jettaglx@igtc.com
>To: jettaglx@igtc.com
>Subject: Please help quick...
>Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 20:15:16 -0400
>
>Well-I took my car into the dealer two thursdays ago since i was having
>trouble shifting into first, it was making crunching noises when i stuck it
>in reverse, and the clutch was making weird noises. so they told me to
>bring it back in on monday since they said the transmission needed to be
>rebuilt. it seems extremely odd that something like this would happen after
>35,500 miles. but i did bring it back, and i finally got it back tonite
>after a week of it sitting in the shop (they were ordering parts, tools,
>blah blah, and it was taking a while because they had never seen a problem
>like this before...).
>
>they told me that what happened was that a tooth broke off the reverse gear
>and was bouncing around in the tranny and messed up the other gears. they
>said they had fixed this problem, and when driving the car out of the
>parking lot, i could feel that 1st and 2nd gears were very stiff and not
>the typical feel we're used to. so i brought it right back around, and one
>of the techs drove and said that something was definitely wrong. in the
>meanwhile, as soon as i started my car, the check engine light also came
>on. then the tech hooks it up to his computer to check what the check
>engine light was about, and he managed to get it turned off, but said there
>was a 99% chance that it'd come back on again on the drive home, and that
>it was a "hard fault" now permanently stored in the computer (whatever that
>means)- hopefully something simple like an air intake problem, or maybe a
>loose sensor because of the transmission work. in the meanwhile, i'm
>thinking in my head that it's hopefully not the garrett chip i put in. and
>i'm scared that if he figures out that there's a chip in there, he might
>void my engine's warranty (even though there's only 500 miles left...).
>accordingly, i tell him i'll drop it off again in the morning so that if i
>decide to, i can take the chip out. my question is this: what are the
>chances that they'll know there's an after-market chip in there, and is
>there a possibility that that might be the problem? i don't want to mess
>with the chip at this point because i didn't put it in myself, and i know
>it'll take me hours including time to go buy the right tools to take it
>back out. in addition, when the manger heard there was another problem with
>my car, he came out and said he would look into the problem himself
>tomorrow morning. will they have to look in the ECU to figure out what's
>wrong? and will their computer instantly tell them that it's an
>after-market chip? the light had come on once about 1000 miles ago for
>about 2 seconds, but nothing since...
>
>thanks in advance...any answers/comments will be greatly appreciated...
>-Eddie '99 Jetta VR6 (A3)
>

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