[thechat] Let's see if we can turn this into thecar...

[Luther, Ron]

Hi Dave,


I'm not a 'car fixit' guy ... so I may be waaaaay off the mark here ... but
I'd check the spark plugs and wires.

Why? ... I had an '85 GTI ... (nice car - pretty quick).  I had it in for
MAJOR service once - [transmission exploded - but I drove it to work and
then in to the shop!] ... after that the dang thing couldn't hit 55 going
downhill!   The reason?  The shop put in the wrong brand of spark plugs.
The car checked out fine on their diagnostic computer - but it wouldn't
"go".  After a few frustrating months of going back and forth with that shop
... I took it to one of those 'hole in the wall' VW places ... one of the
ones with 20 dead beetles parked all the way around it ... those guys had
the thing diagnosed and back running at full steam in a matter of minutes.
I was amazed how 'picky' it was about plugs.

HTH,

RonL.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave McLean [mailto:thechat at dwcreative.com]
I've got another one for you.  My '94 VW Golf is a really good car that
performs well, except when it's raining. Basically when I'm coasting,
everything's fine. When I press on the accelerator it chugs. The road is
really wet and the water is coming up from regular spray into the engine.