yay car is fixed

[bigdamnnerd]

Not to belittle eevilyounggirl's car trouble...but my car turned out to have nothing wrong with it. This of course makes me suspicious, but what can you do? So they charged me for the tow and hooking the thing up to their computer, and told me to use regular gas (regular unleaded? what an oxymoron!) when it gets cold out.

I guess we'll see if their diagnosis is right.

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[navik.livejournal.com]

Try diesel. Sure, the hose doesn't appear to fit, but you can get it to work.

[eevilyounggirl.livejournal.com]

Well, that's good that it's not anything. Where'd you take it, out of curiousity? Apparently Genin's is the place to be.

In other news, wanna pay for half of mine?

[catnapping.livejournal.com]

Genin's mobile? On University? I had a bad experience with them once and have never gone back. The work they did was fine, but it was also fairly expensive, the service was awful, and they didn't have it completed on time.

I got a lot of work done on my last car at the Midas on University down by Perkins and always had good service. They also don't seem to overcharge like some places do. You might consider them for future reference :)

[eevilyounggirl.livejournal.com]

I have a Snaab, so it's difficult to find places that know what to do with them. Genin's did, and was very respectful of my "OMG I'm moving to Milwaukee in two days!" schedule.

The place my car is now is fine, but spensive as hell.

[hagbard23.livejournal.com]

Took it to the VW dealer. I've had issues with non-VW dealers not being able to read the codes properly.

[seien.livejournal.com]

Kyle switches to regular unleaded in the wintertime and he says his GTI runs a LOT better. Zimbrick suggested it for better performance, but they never said anything about actual problems if he didn't switch. Hopefully it'll do the trick in your case, but that does seem like a bit of a cop out.

[celticgypsy.livejournal.com]

Your MIL was flashing, which for VWs means "get off the road now and call service". Did they tell you what the OBD code behind the flashing MIL told them? If not, I think I would call and ask, because it might still be in the notes that the tech entered.

[hagbard23.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what i figured what the light meant. They said it had registered some misfire codes, but that was it.

[celticgypsy.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the coilpacks? The coilpacks for a lot of the 1.8T engines were recalled a while back for the 2001-2003 VWs.

"If an ignition coil fails, the check engine light/malfunction indicator lamp will blink. The car's performance may ... become rough and/or the engine will lose some power..."
http://www.autofan.com/newsdetail.asp?id=224&mn=2&yr=2003

I guess if she's behaving normally now, it isn't a big deal, but if it comes up again that might be a possibility. Good luck!

[hagbard23.livejournal.com]

Interesting...though I doubt that's the problem. Mine is a 2000.

Though the symptoms were pretty similar. I guess I get to cross my fingers and see what happens next.