My mechanic won't touch anything but the Bosch rebuilds too..............

Cheers,
Doug

On 9/4/08, mdrillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:
>
> I always say, get the real  Bosch rebuild. Any rebuilder can have a bad
> one but the Bosch rebuilds, rebuilt by Bosch and in a Bosch box are the
> best bet IMHO.  AL33X is the most universal replacement for watercooled
> VWs. I get mine at Van-Cafe, a Vanagon community supporter.
>
>
> http://www.van-cafe.com/vanagon_parts.jsp?pa=p&p=750788463&pct=1351036891&ct=1965673259
>
> Bus Depot has them on the East Coast.
>
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> Jim Felder wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info everyone, the reman (to answer Mark's question)
>> was bad almost out of the box. I put it on, started it up, and it
>> seemed OK. Two days later (today) my wife went to drive it, and
>> NOTHING. It had drained the battery so low that it wouldn't even run
>> the digital clock! Figure that.
>>
>> I asked about the wiring earlier because I wanted to make sure I had
>> not wired it up wrong. I hadn't. Luckily there was another one in town
>> and I got it installed this afternoon. It's the third reman on the
>> car, all free after the first one. The one on the car that's working
>> now is not the same brand as the bad one I installed previously.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>

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