At 08:19 AM 2/17/2005, you wrote:
>I seemed to miss an email somewhere. I am getting that symptom myself and was
>wondering what the "harness fix" was? Thanks as usual.

It's the dealer solution to an oscillation condition in the ECU monitoring
the air flow meter. It's basically a short cable with a male connector on
one end and a female on the other that goes between the AFM and the harness
that plugs into it. It essentially contains a capacitor that "smoothes out"
the AFM signal to the ECU. The VW-made harness is the expensive solution.
The cheap solution is to open your AFM and just solder a capacitor across
the appropriate terminals.
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John Bange
'90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"