[net.auto] Rabbit Fuel INjection Problems

heliotis@rochester.UUCP (05/24/83)

Unbelievable!  I told the original person that I squeeze the fuse onn
the fuel pump relay to get it to start.  (My pump needed replacement
somewhere around 75,000 miles.  I was in higher eleveations in Kansas
at the time, and it gave up.)

I heard about the recall, but never got a notice.  Perhaps my year
(1977) was not included.

                                        Jim Heliotis

mk@hplabsb.UUCP (05/25/83)

I have a 1979 Rabbit which ran horribly for the second six months I
owned it. It would buck and jerk, etc. I took it back several times to
the dealer who could find nothing wrong with it. Then, just after the
warranty ran out, at the end of the first year, the fuel pump quit
working altogether. Since then it's been doing a lot better, but I put
fuel additive in it every now and then.

I must have missed some of the articles on this topic. What was the "recall"
mentioned by Jim Heliotis. Did it have to do with fuel pumps or what?

					Margy Kahn
					HP Labs, Palo Alto