On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Patrick Austin wrote: > Isn't it on all 16v's? I had one on my 1.8l, but I haven't noticed it on > my 2.0l (but I haven't looked, and its pretty unobtrusive). >
I'm not sure... I thought that they only came on 87 and 88 16v's, but it's entirely possible. Anybody with a 90-92 that can confirm this? A couple excerpts from http://www-pal.usc.edu/~jan/vw/Engine/HopKits (This is all from Randy Walters, the man behind the hopkit): ===== Driving on certain types of road with ondulations roughly the size of the car (ie, poured concrete highways), at certain speeds the right front of the car will start hopping up and down. Many of the SoKal (LA) freeways are unfortunately of this type (worst is the 110 N starting at the 105), which is one of the road I unfortunately frequent. and If you're not familiar with it, the hopkit was VW's way of correcting a bad motormount system design. I got one of the first prototypes after threatening to get a Lemon-Law Refund on the car back in '84, after taking the car in 4 times to find the problem. Nobody could figure out what caused the hop!! I finally had to diagnose the problem myself by removing my hood, then I took the VW official for a ride on the freeway to watch the engine jumping up and down!! He was embarrased. Thus the hopkit. ===== -- John Caldwell [email protected] 89 GTI 16v
