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Re: Dealer will sell 09 TDI Wagon 6M at MSRP [gagrice]

by malmouza on Fri Aug 08 12:04:54 PDT 2008

Dealers are opening a business not church to help people. Any business is based on supply and demand. If too many people want the same product, of course the seller is going to take the opportunity to capitalize on that situation. Dealers also have bad season and good season, and when a new redesigned model comes to the market they try to make up for the months where they weren’t hiting the sales numbers. But try to shop around, in my area they are 5 dealers and two of them are charging MSRP. But the waiting list is long since VW just announced that there previous allocation per dealer for the Jetta TDI have been reduced due to the weak dollar vs Euro. This issue is going to exist for period of time until the new factory Chattanooga, Tenn. start production in 2010.

Re: Consumer Reports on the Journey - AUG 2008 [albook]

by prendy on Sat Jul 19 13:33:21 PDT 2008

WHERE DID YOU HEAR IT WAS BEING DISCONTINUED,THE JOURNEY IS ONE OF THE BEST SELLING CROSSOVERS IN CANADA,ALSO DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE RECALL ,THE WIRING HARNESS IS HITING THE TRANSAXLE AND COULD CATCH FIRE, PRENDY100

Re: 2003 suzuki xl-7 4x4 [tattoopat]

by kc5yti on Wed Mar 12 20:54:56 PDT 2008

By 2003, many of the issues were repaired. However, one of the more common issues is timing chain tensioner failure. This is most common around 30-60K miles. The main symptom is the sound of the chain rubbing on the block during startup. According to Suzuki, it could make the noise for a very short amount of time, but it should never last for longer than 30s. To, me, it sounded like a bicycle chain hiting a chain guard while peddling. To help avoid this, use good oil and filters. I use Mobil 1 synthetic, and the Purolator Pure 1 oil filter. She now has just over 61K miles, and I have not heard the issues since I had it fixed at about 43K miles. She treats me well, and I return the favor. Regards, Ivan, kc5yti

Re: Another huge thing to consider - beyond cars [gagrice]

by steve_ on Fri Feb 29 21:21:44 PST 2008

Flop a kayak on the deck for reaching the side canyons. Let's see, I think it was '01 that I spent 3 weeks floating the Grand - took out a week above Hite, although most of the group kept going to the lake. 226 river miles for us. 330 miles over 3 weeks in a canoe on the Nahanni was our longest paddle - ten days is plenty methinks. Other than a couple of brief trips into Quetico, I never was much for lake paddling, and I really don't want a putt-putt interfering with the sounds of the birds and the riffles.

Re: Another huge thing to consider - beyond cars [gagrice]

by steve_ on Fri Feb 29 20:19:55 PST 2008

The lake is a big success with recreational boaters You mean recreational power boaters. When the marina isn't high and dry anyway. Ever been to Bullfrog? The north ramp is closed while they extend the concrete ramp 300' to get to the water. Grand Canyon rafters can't even take out at Hite anymore. Meanwhile the lake is slowly filling with sediment (with heavy metal in it) and there are huge evaporation losses. link And BP - "Last November, BP executives walked into Anchorage Federal Court to plead guilty to violating the Clean Water Act." And now the State of Alaska is getting ready to sue BP for several hundred million dollars the state lost in oil revenues when BP's corrosion problems shut down a big part of Prudhoe Bay two years ago. link Your guys in Calif must really be awful if BP is making them look good. :P

Re: Navi Night/Day Auto system [liferules]

by taxesquire on Tue Feb 05 12:02:59 PST 2008

He says it stays on "day mode," so it's not a headlight issue, unless he's not putting his light on at night. Instead, try hiting the "max brightness" button - it's below the speedometer, to the left or right. It will override the night mode. It's very useful if you have your headlights on during the day, due to rain or fog or whatever, but you have to remember to hit the button again to get it back to night mode. [just rechecked and saw the other answers to this question - guess Ineed to check in more often!]