jason_alh
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Just wanted to share a recent 2 week long road/mountain bike trip experience with my MK4 ALH Jetta (sorry no pictures loaded as of yet). We made several overnight camping stops along the way down to San-Francisco. Starting in Saskatoon SK. the first stop was Fernie B.C, then Rossland B.C, then Oregon and finally made our way down to San-Francisco. On the return trip we cut straight across back to Saskatchewan. Overall did roughly about 3700 miles of driving without any major issues. Only reported issue was going into limp mode during some long mountain grades. The car was heavily weighed down with gear, backseat and trunk packed to the ceiling. As well as (2) mountain bikes on the hitch rack. Only modifications are a Malone stage 1 tune and skid plate. We averaged about 50 to 60 MPG (Canadian Gal.), which I cannot complain about. I plan to clean the intake manifold which will hopefully alleviate any further limp mode issues.