[Vwdiesel] What was this recall and when ?? 4 new PD injector modules, what??
dieseltdi at verizon.net
dieseltdi at verizon.net
Sun Oct 31 16:59:56 PDT 2010
Here is the link to the information on the recall and follow up. Long read but there is some good information there. Hayden
On Oct 29, 2010, at 10:34 AM, James Hansen wrote:
> Hayden
> That was never offered to me, now I'm annoyed.
> Dialing the phone to vw as I type.
> Was offered a gas rental from Enterprise last year in fall.
> Started like a pos all winter, but wasn't willing to have the wife drive a
> neon in winter with poor tires.
> I was told there was a new flash released on Wednesday to fix this, and had
> an appointment to have this done today, but the car can't get off the farm
> since the blizzard.
> -j
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On
> Behalf Of dieseltdi at verizon.net
> Sent: October-29-10 8:57 AM
> To: dieselwesty at yahoo.com
> Cc: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] What was this recall and when ?? 4 new PD injector
> modules, what??
>
> The original recall was over a year ago. Due to ceramic glow plugs that
> would break and fall into the engine, VW issued a recall for all 2004 and
> some 2005-6 models with the BEW and BRM PD engines. The original recall
> replaced the ceramic glow plugs (which were 7 volt) with a steel 5 volt glow
> plug and they reflashed the ECU to account for the glow plug change.
> Unfortunately nearly everyone began having start up problems in cold
> weather. There were stories of Canadian cars that spent the entire winter
> sitting at dealerships while their owners were given gas cars to drive while
> VW tried to figure out what the heck was going on. About mid summer,
> dealers began quietly, if pushed by the owner, to "undo" the recall. They
> installed steel sheathed 7 volt ceramic glow plugs, 4 Eurospec PD injectors
> and reflashed the ECU again to take the glow plugs and the injector
> characteristics into consideration. Ultilmately the word got around with PD
> owners and more and more were demanding this
>
>
> Oct 29, 2010 01:25:54 PM, dieselwesty at yahoo.com wrote:
>
> Hayden wrote:
> "Some of these things seemed to clear up or at least diminished after a
> redone
> recall (new steel sheathed, ceramic glow plugs, 4 new PD injectors and an
> ECU
> flash)"
>
> Does anyone have info on this recall? I was never informed about this one
> or
> the notice went out in the junk mail recycling.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Bryan Belman, Pt. Pleasant, NJ
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> 92 Jetta 1.6 Eco-Turbo Diesel, 5sp -- running :<)
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