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need help with a diagnosis



  Oh yes, 1980 ...
  OK then, I do not have a suspect :-)

    Jean-Claude
    84 8v (thinks that since J-C has a hammer, every problem is a nail ...)

Daun Yeagley wrote:
> --- Jean-Claude D?sinor <desinor@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
>>   The seatbelt light is a bit puzzling, but I vote for my
>> favourite 
>> culprit: the infamous "Oil Pressure Warning System
>> Control Unit".
>>   It is a little "L" shaped printed circuit that sits
>> inside the 
>> instrument pod, behind the speedometer.
>>     
>
> All well & good but he's driving an Mk 1 which doesn't have
> this same little device.
>
> I'm voting for a couple things:
>
> -Bad grounds.
> -Too thin of oil.  Minimum in these temps is 10w40,
> preferably 20w50.
>
> Sorry if this is covered in a later post, trying to catch
> up on e-mail....
>
>
> Daun Yeagley - Wilmington Ohio
> '81 Scirocco S (Deiter)       '86 Scirocco 8v
> '88 Scirocco Slegato (Gino!)  '88 Scirocco 16v
> '96 Passat GLX Wagon          '56 Cessna 172
> The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts - Ehrlich's Law.
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