Re: Scammed by dealership??

[James Bratek <jbratek@attglobal.net>]

Your car's Check Engine Light, and any car's for that matter, is a US
Federally-mandated feature to monitor a car's emissions system (also known
as ODB-II or On-Board Diagnostics). Typical failures to trip the light on
are: the gas filler cap not tightened all the way until it 'clicks', or a
failed catalytic converter or some other blockage/failure of the emissions
process. This system light DOES NOT indicate any failures of the engine
itself, so an engine flush or misfire codes are either erroneous or
byproducts of the root cause.

What year is your car and how many miles does it have? An engine flush
shouldn't be considered until you're past the 100,000 mile mark for typical
driving, or less if you've driven through lots of dirt roads.

> they got the same misfire codes

Ah, good 'ol VW diagnostic codes. You'll learn that those codes are only as
good as the mechanic who interprets them. Do these guys (VW mechanics) ever
think about the possibility that the diagnostic computer can return false
codes as a result of the root problem? No, because they make money by
servicing as many cars as possible during the day, not leaning over one car
for the whole day trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with it. And
it could have been as simple as that gas cap not tightened completely. Too
much reliance on computer diagnostics, not enough on human problem solving.