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From: ssm@leg.ri.cmu.edu.ARPA (Sesh Murthy)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: VW Diesel engine question
Message-ID: <239@leg.ri.cmu.edu.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 21:34:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: leg.239
Posted: Mon Sep 16 21:34:42 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 02:07:58 EDT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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I have a VW Dasher with a diesel engine.  

The car has a temperature gauge with an LED in the middle.  Sometimes for no
apparent reason the LED starts flickering at 1 Hz.  The temperature gauge is
in the middle indicating that the car is not overheating.  What is the reason
for the light flickering.  What condition is it supposed to diagnose and what
could it mean.  

My local dealer is a crook and pocketed a lot of money to tell me that the
compression was faulty and the engine was overheating.  I think my car is
fine as it still gives me 50+ mpg.  Also I can drive it at 60 mph on the PA
turnpike whihc has some pretty steep hills.

I cannot find a copy of the owners manual from any of the local dealers so if
anybody can send me a photocopy I would appreciate it ( and also pay for
postage copying etc.)

Thanks in advance
							 Sesh
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