Recent content by where2

LUK-17-050 has been fine on the last two TDI's that we used them on (04 Jetta Wagon, and 06 Jetta Sedan). Both were stock tunes, and daily driven.

In 8 years, I've had one microinverter die, out of 20... (My system, installed in 2013, was a DIY procurement, permit and install, all to NEC 2011. I'm my own service technician for the system, so I know what has been done to keep it functional.) The sun just keeps coming up and beating down on...

Whatcha need Kirmet? I'll help in any way I can. :) I just built a Plug-N-Play setup for my wife's 2013 JSW this evening using parts, plugs, sockets, and tools I have been acquiring for a year now... I haven't tested it out yet, because it's raining, and I still have to flip a coin on whether...

Try Parts Place Inc, Pelican Parts, AutohauzAZ, or contact the guy in Texas on eBay with a listing offering parts off an '86 Cabriolet shown in a junkyard. With as many Mk1 chassis models as VW made, I find it difficult to believe that there are no rear upper spring perches anywhere anymore...

ON-Grid was cheap during the last "great recession". My wife's from "The County". :) I appreciate the fact that your current governor reversed the previous governor's scrapping of Net Metering. We've got a 4.6kW array destined for our property in Emera territory. When my wife inquired what Emera...

Since I believe I understand what the previous poster was attempting to explain, let me toss in my $0.02. Consider the 20 PV panel 4.4kW array on my second floor roof (DIY installed in 2013). It shades nearly all my second floor, south facing roof facet, like having a tree there would. That...

Nice setup Jim! I really notice the extra HP my wife's '13 JSW has over her former 2006 TDI sedan or my 2004 Jetta Wagon. I need to swap cars with my wife some weekend and get her old hitch under her JSW before I really need to use it for something. (Summer is coming) I keep wishing there was...

Hadn't seen that Ultra-Tow aluminum setup before. I might have to get one of those to drag behind my e-Golf. Note: Northern also has 4x8 and 5x8 aluminum trailers. My other utility trailer (a galvanized Continental 5x8, with disc brakes, load rated for 2800lbs), really seems a bit excessive for...

I guess I technically belong to this "old timer" club, despite the fact that I don't feel like it should be that way... It has been more than 20 years I've been kicking around this website, despite not buying a TDI until 2006. (I like to do my homework) Still have my 2004 Jetta Wagon TDI...

We all have to start our TDI adventure somewhere... Our first was a (Fifth generation) 2006 Jetta TDI, purchased back in 2006. Our pseudo-second (also in 2006) was a nearly identical new 2006 Jetta TDI I was "loaned" for 120k miles as my personal company car (my sister now owns this one). Our...

Yep, that's why I have had 20 of those 65"x40" panels on my roof since 2013. The sun comes up, they work, same thing tomorrow. I have another 20 in my garage on a pallet (behind the VW Corrado) to go in my backyard (my 2-story house is out of roof space for additional solar panels). Based on the...

FWIW: I can tell you that in April 2006 when we were looking for a Jetta TDI sedan for my wife, there were multiple brand new TDI's on the VW lot dumping water on the ground when you opened the door. It's not an issue that develops over time. The door has multiple seals to lessen road noise...

I was down to only refueling my 2004 Jetta Wagon TDI once a month (vented), but for my daily driver having a solar array on the house and an e-Golf in the driveway is the cat's pajamas. ;) For long road trips, we still have the wife's JSW_TDi + a 5x8 utility trailer with disc brakes.

Walked out of my local Lowes one afternoon a few years ago to find a blue Smyth conversion parked in the contractor loading area. If others execute the conversion as well as the one I saw, it's a very nice setup. :) I need one of these to tow behind my RV...

I love my wagon because things just fit!! I've tried loading large items I obtained inexpensively at the big box store into my e-Golf (like the Craftsman workbench for $50 or the new Samsung Dryer for $400)... Both would have easily fit in the MkIV wagon!! As it was, I drove the workbench home...