16v: how do i keep oil from flooding the distributor?

[SequoiaGLX at twcny.rr.com (SequoiaGLX@twcny.rr.com)]

If you guys think VW's are designed to fail at a certain point, let me tell you about my wife's Neon.  I didn't have to touch a thing on it besides change the oil and pads/rotors, with the exception of the normal Neon head gasket replacement, done by the dealer for $100 and other various things that were entirely our fault, until 100,000 miles.  Once that odometer clicked over all hell broke loose.  I swear everything started to break.

In contrast, both my Scirocco and my Jetta had irksome little problems almost right from the start (what would we love our VW's for if they didn't have "idiosyncracies"?).  But with both of them roughly in the 150,000 mile range they're 10x the car the Neon is now.  Fix the problems along the way and they will literally still feel like new way down the road (unfortunately this was not done on my 'roc for the first 10 years, I was not the owner).  A couple of people have driven my A3 Jetta lately and cannot believe it has 140k miles on it.

John K. Gates
--
'97 Jetta GLX - daily driver
'85 Scirocco Flash Silver, waiting for my new house/shop for a complete
teardown/buildup sometime soon...

----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Bubb <jdbubb@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 4, 2004 12:50 pm
Subject: Re: Re: 16v: how do i keep oil from flooding the distributor?

> 
> 
> >> >
> > > > >   (why do we always think we are better engineers than 
> those who designed
> > > > > this car??)
> > > > > :)
> > > > > Larry
> > > > > sandiego16v
> > > >
> > > > Sorry, another point on this...  These manufacturers design 
> these cars to fail,
> > >
> > >
> > > HUH??? Puuleease
> > >
> > > >we try to make them so that they -won't-...  :-)
> > > >
> > > > Cheers.
> > > >   David
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> > Sorry Dan,
> >   But you do not want to go head to head with me on this one...  
> Working here, I see it, each and
> > every bloody day...  Persist at your peril...  :-)
> 
> 
> The fact that they do fail doesn't mean they are designed to do 
> so! If you design for failure it's
> guaranteed that is what you'll get. If you design for reliability 
> you don't always achieve it.
> You have heard of  J.D. Power??
> No car company wants a crappy reputation and designing for failure 
> is a sure fire way to get one!
> Dan
> 
> >
> > Cheers,
> >   David
> >
> > PS--  I will add, that VWs are better at working over the long 
> haul.  Ours, that is.  The A4 and
> A3 body style, not near the longevity...  BTW, no offense was 
> intended, so puuulease do not take
> what was not there...
> >
> >
> > ---Chrome don't get you home.---
> >
> 
> 
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