So your theory is this guy is replacing the caps but in reality if he just hit 
the solder points it might have been good .

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> On May 18, 2017, at 11:05 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> I must disagree about the halfway job.  I've done more than a dozen of
> these, and every one worked when I was done with it.  Several took more
> than one resoldering.  VDO did a bad job in those years.  And if you don't
> remove the conformal coating, you get a bunch of burned varnish all over
> the place, contaminating things.  Paint stripper.  It's fast, and easy.
> The biggest problems are the larger leads, but plenty of smaller ones had
> problems too.  Oddly, the capacitors were rarely the problem.
> 
> Links:
> 
> http://formicapeak.com/~jimc/cwcruise.html
> http://formicapeak.com/~jimc/JSLcruise.html
> http://formicapeak.com/~jimc/SDLcruise.html
> 
> -- Jim
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