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Subject:Re: Automatic Starter options was: Front Heater Fan Motor Lube?
From:David Beierl
Date:Tue, 28 Jan 2020 19:57:01 -0500

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 7:50 PM Karl Mullendore <tdiguru@westyventures.com>
wrote:

> The TDI starter has almost twice the cranking power plus faster speed.
>

And draws about 60 amps no load, vs about 80 for the OE starter.  After
~300k miles of dealing with the OE starter on three different vans I'm an
evangelist for your adapter and this starter. It cranks just like a real
car.  I haven't proved it but I'm convinced that in moderate weather it
will crank when system voltage is too low for the ECU to function.

Yrs,
d