Patrick Austin here. Woah, these names are a blast from my INBOX's
past. I've got mailing list archives from 1998 or 1999 forward,
though it sounds like things are pretty straightened away.
Still driving cars in the right family. Wife's daily driver is a B5
30v Passat right now, which has been remarkably trouble free (knock on
wood). Almost boring. We had a kid a couple years ago, so my fun
cars are now 5 series bimmers.
Just sold an E28 535is I had for a couple years, moved on to a nice
E34 535iM. Just spent the evening removing control arms and steering
linkage on the bimmer. God, I love old German steel. All the cars I
lusted after as a teenager are now $3000 apiece and about as expensive
to run as a 16v Mk2.
After working on Golfs/Jettas for a decade, it's nice to have some
space in the engine bay, power at the back, and the crazy awesome
sound of that big straight six. :) I'd still jump at a clean stock
16v, though. I got to the point where I could work on 'em in the
dark, and there's something to be said for familiarity. :)
http://flickr.com/photos/paanta/tags/bmw/
All you guys should know, every online group after the A2 16v list has
been a letdown. I miss getting advice from people who have disdain
for body kits.
-Pat
On Feb 23, 2009, at 5:18 PM, Matthew Yip wrote:
Over the past few years, I've found that most of the "knowledge" for
these antiques that we know and love (because we are closet
masochists) comes from hacks whose knowledge stems from skimming the
Bentley manual coupled with a few feeble attempts at troubleshooting
before "doin' a VR swap, yo". Roughly 20 years after the
introduction of OBD, the results are scary - Check Engine Lights are
commonplace on a myriad of cars (especially VW/Audi products) AND
most DIY wrenches are clueless about diagnostics without their
beloved "VAGCOM".
I come across tidbits periodically and have a few bits of wisdom
(very, very few, in my case) that I'd be more than happy to share
with Charlie, especially if he's going to memorialize that
information for posterity. I chased down a low-voltage fuel pump
for two years (yes, I know I could have done it in less time BUT I'm
stubborn and the car was/is my Daily Driver) - it's not that the
information isn't in the Bentley BUT that the symptoms kept pointing
towards a bad coolant temp sensor or knock sensor.
As for such lovely internet sites as VWVortex, I'm done with that
group - I'm tired of reading replies about how I don't know anything
about VWs and that the cars should be coveted and babied. Worse are
the threats because my opinions don't mesh with those of the 16 yr
old kids who think that a "performance car" means "in the weeds,
spewing black smoke from the exhaust".
Charlie - thanks for the offer. I'll try to send along some tidbits
of knowledge - don't laugh since my tidbits are truly BITS and my
mind is getting feeble in my old age...what group is this again?
Matthew
----- Original Message ----
From: Charlie Russo <[email protected]>
To: a2-16v <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:40:57 AM
Subject: Re: [a2-16v-list] A2 16V Knowledge
Just thought I would put this out there for everyone.
If anyone with a web site that has 16V information on it is
thinking about
shutting it down, PLEASE CONTACT ME.
I have some extra storage space on my site www.gti16v.org and
would be
happy to keep that 16V information from
disappearing and would certainly give credit to the authors and
caretakers
of that information.
The "brain drain" of 16V knowledge is a concern for many of us as
the years
go by.
I also see an increasing amount of mis-information regarding 16Vs
(and
other older water cooled VWs in general)
on some on-line forums. (Matthew, you know what I mean.)
Anyway, if there is anything I can do to help to stem the tide of
A2 16V
Knowledge being lost PLEASE contact me.
Charlie
At 09:50 PM 2/18/2009 -0500, Denis Goldman wrote:
I also tried to capture Alex's advice on my site back in the day
(with
Alex's permission of course):
http://www.gtitoolbox.com/howtos.html
There are other how-to's as well (how to replace a dist seal,
timing belt,
fuel injector o-rings, etc).
Hope this helps (someone!)
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Josh wrote:
"Many of the 16V reference pages I used to frequent are no longer
on the
web."
One of the 1st ones that I remember is Alex's.. which is still
alive, just
a different URL-
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/vwtuning/index.html
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