Dear Graham,

How much did the new sensor cost?

John Hung

p.s. to Ron Salmon at Bus Depot.  Do you have a sensor for an '84 GL?

>Date:    Thu, 20 May 1999 23:50:16 -0700
>From:    Graham Challis <gchallis@CENTUM.COM>
>Subject: Intermittant loss of power at high altitudes in '90 GL
>
>I was filling out a repair shop recommendation for Karl's VW shop list and
>thought the list might be interested in the problem that R.C. Imports in El
>Cerrito CA (near the BART station) was able to immediately fix that the VW
>dealers never had a clue about:
>
>I bought my van new, always serviced it at the VW dealer for the first 6
>years.  Whenever I drove over Donner Pass (altitude around 7500') the engine
>would start cutting out and stumbling.  This would continue for a few miles
>or so.  The next day, still at high altitude everything would be fine and
>then coming home to the Bay Area everything would be OK as well.  The
>dealers replaced plugs, wires, coils etc.etc.  They always "fixed" the
>problem until I went up again.
>
>In '96 I asked RC about it they immediately identified the problem as either
>a bad hall effect sensor unit in the distributor or F.I. black box.  I put
>off fixing it for a bit (wasn't going skiing!) but then one day it stumbled
>and died in El Cerrito.  I towed it to RC, they put in a new sensor and it's
>never stumbled again.
>
>Believe it........or not!
>
>Graham
>90 GL Country home camper