Totally forgot to mention one important thing, sorry ...

On Thu, 1998-08-06 09:56:45 CES, I myself wrote:

> ...
>        The last time I did that I did it at my friendly local VW dealer,
> and he adviced  me to also change  these little springs and  offered the
> replacements at no cost. :-)

The friendly VW  dealer  also handed over a   can of a special  VW  lock
grease and adviced me to rather use more than less  ... even at the risk
of having to  wipe the key  clean for a  few days whenever it is removed
from this particular lock :-)

Sincerely
 Rainer

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