Re: Scammed by dealership??

["Patrick Pak" <d_stick2@hotmail.com>]

My car is a 97 and it has about 80k miles on it. Trust me, i'm ready to
raise some hell.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Bratek" <jbratek@attglobal.net>
To: <jettaglx@igtc.com>; <d_stick2@hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: Scammed by dealership??


> 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.
>
>