Recent content by johnboy00

Just to put closure to this. When I went to look at the battery. The stud that holds the red wire going to the top of the battery broke off. I must have overtightened it at some point. All has been good for several weeks now and the gremlins are gone.

I think I've found my problem. Although the bolt that connect the red wire from the battery to all the power connections at the top of the battery was tight, the connection itself was not. I need to replace the nut and bolt and clean up the contacts. I tightened it up a bit last night and ands...

No correlation with temperature, humidity, or anything I can think of. I feel I'm pretty good at noticing subtleties like that. I've been busy and haven't had time to look at it yet but twice in the last couple of days I noticed that I had to turn the key twice to engage the starter. I think I...

One of the reasons I posted is because the knowledge here is immense. In the rare possibility that someone might come back and say check this cable located here, it may be loose. or look at the ground here. This is just the start of the process, especially now that the problem is back. The...

That's a good suggestion, I'll look into doing that. The brake/abs light problem came back, so I'm going to probably try to resolve that first. If and when I go at the radio, I want to add a back-up camera, and I have a replacement back hatch to install due to some rust. But I don't want to do...

It did seem that the battery cables were tight. Additionally, Just after I posted, the brake/abs light blinking came back. It seems as if disconnecting the battery and then reconnecting, improved the situation for a time. I hope to determine what's going on this weekend. I've been just...

First the background. My Jetta wagon was T-boned (drivers door) about a year ago in a relatively low speed collision by a Prius. There was enough damage that it would have ben totaled if anyone looked at, but the accident was my fault, and the car was drivable. A friend who's a body guy said he...

I've got a set of Depo's if you're interested. Used them for about 2 years and the cars been sitting in the garage, until recently, for almost 3 years. Soon to be disposed off. $75 plus shipping for the set...

I got a couple of postcards recently from my dealer about a service campaign on my VW. I'm wondering if anyone else has gotten them as well. The only open campaign on my VIN is for the glowplug update from 2011 which I know had an expiration date. I put in steel plugs with a RC tune, so my...

I'm Located in Eastern Massachusetts. Unfortunately, It's definitely not the solenoids. Might be willing to drive to pick up, or have shipped. I haven't decided that I'm ready to retire this car, yet.

Officially confirmed that it is the transmission, Something inside is slipping. I pulled the axle flange and it looks good.:cry: 310k miles on this beast, It needs tires and a timing belt, so I think It is toast, Unfortunately, Its got a lot of relatively new parts. My daughters are driving it...

I didn't check my bolts today, but I did check them not that long ago. They look to be all there and tight, but I'll confirm. Thanks.

I was thinking the same thing; that it cant really fail. I've been keeping an eye on it, but I never realized it was that end of the axle. I assumed it was on the outer joint side. It would run normally for a a long time and every now and then it would get loud for a few minutes and go away...

I thought I was losing an axle for the second time in a year. My 04 Jetta completely stopped moving as my daughter was driving to school this morning. AS I was waiting for a tow, I took a look at it and saw that the axle wasn't rotating at all even though I could hear the transmission spinning...

Title says it all. looking for a drivers side VW axle for a 2004 Jetta Auto. Hopefully there is someone out there who has done a 5 spd conversion who still has their VW axles.