Angie's '05 Golf has, I think, become my '05 Golf and she's taken over my '15 Jetta.
Back about March the alternator quit, there are a stack of choices, I ended up going with a used one. It was slightly cheaper than a "new" made in China off brand or "rebuilt" Bosch. New Bosch is available but $450... The ABS light has been on and off, I knew I'd whacked one of the rear sensors doing brakes. Fortunately replacements are cheap cheap. Unfortunately after 19 years they have to come out in little pieces. VW uses an irritating array of torx and allen head fasteners. This one is allen head. I'd replaced the passenger side rear, the one I smacked, in April. I did the other one yesterday. Its a lot easier the second time. I even thought to use the dremel with a drum sander to clean the hole, its not ideal because its covered by the hub but not too bad. It was also due for a timing belt back in April, 80,000 miles in almost 10 years. That got us past safety inspection today so I also changed the oil. I put in Rotella T6 5w40. I had been using Liquimoly 4100 but that stuff is running nearly $50 for 5 quarts. I got T6 on sale at Tractor Supply for $25/gal. It isn't registered for VW 505.01 that they specify but lots of people in the TDI community have been using it long term. Shell claims they just haven't bothered to submit it for VW's testing. We'll see, I'd hate to ruin the engine but, on the other hand, its almost 20 years old with 230,000 miles... Tomorrow I'm going to take it to the great northern estate. The car smokes more on startup than I'd like, a 450 mile highway run ought to clean the cobwebs out of it. -Curt _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
