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Subject:Re: VW USA and Warranty Claims
From:Steve Hoge
Date:Thu, 05 Oct 95 22:54:42 -0700

John wrote: 

> Many thanks to those who responded to my "Temperature Related Performance
> Problems" posting last week, and shared the information in Technical
> Bulletin 24-92-01 which describes a decade long problem [fuel starvation
> symptoms after extended constant speed driving] and the cure [either wiring
> harness part number 025 906 302---$100 or a self installed capacitor] 

There's also the rumored 3rd fix for this problem (aka The Don Lancaster
Solution), which is resoldering some steel-leaded (!) resistor or another in
the ECU.  Hey Gerry - is that Electronics Now article describing the fix (Feb
'95?) ever going to make it into the archive?  I *have* heard from Vanagon
owners who had the ghost harness installed and it didn't make a lick of
difference; at least it didn't fix the "cut-out" symptom which seems to be
associated with the lurching and bucking.  Anybody else had the harness
installed to no avail?

Steve Hoge
'77 Loaf
'89 GL Syncro (yeah - I found one!)