RE: Car won't start...sometimes

["Aaron Ness" <aaron@makuta.com>]

<x-charset iso-8859-1>This isn't the first time I've heard of the keychain thing, although I don't
recall the details.  It's been a looong time.  However, IIRC it had to do
with some of the late '80s Jettas or something.  I think it was some
magazine article I read when I was in high school, before I had a car.  I
think they were saying that if you do enough driving with a heavy keychain,
the car in question would have excessive wear in the ignition switch and you
would get a break that would cause an intermittent no-start condition for a
while, and it would get worse over time if you didn't fix it.  Sorry I don't
remember the details, but I know I've heard about it, and I believe it had
to do with a VW.

Aaron
'84 Scirocco - Woo-hoo!
'70 Bug - hibernating
'87 Nissan truck - Soon to be for sale


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Pete Jacobsen
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 10:28 PM
> To: HuMpnYoMoM@aol.com; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: Car won't start...sometimes
>
>
> I had the exact same problems. Since the original incident a
> month ago, I
> have replaced the electric fuel pump, starter, coil, and
> distributor. All
> were done after recommendations from 3 different shops; 2 were Dub
> Specialists. All failed to resolve the problem. Now they say
> it's simply the
> ignition switch, due to "massive keychain overloading." Christ.
>
> Pete
>
> PS. I have a juicy new battery and it cranks over fine. The
> problem seems to
> happen at night or in the early am (ie cold). Please forward
> any relevant
> suggestions.
>
> ------
> From: HuMpnYoMoM@aol.com
> My car wouldn't start a few days ago, so I had it towed to
> the shop. They
> replaced the distributor because it was leaking and screwwed
> up the hall
> sensor. I picked the car up Wednsday afternoon. It worked
> fine the that
> night
> and all of Thursday, but when I went to start it up Friday morning it
> wouldn't. It would crank fine, but it just wouldn't turn over
> and run. So I
> had it towed back to the shop Friday evening. On Saturday
> they pushed my car
> into the shop hooked a battery charger up to it, because I drained the
> battery trying to start it, and it started right up. What
> could this be?
> Could it be the cold start valve, because it was real cold on Friday
> morning?
> But it was also cold on Thursday morning and it started.
> Someone help!!!!!
>
>
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