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- From: heff@apollo.HP.COM (Jeff Oesterle)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.vw
- Subject: Re: GTIs good only at high revs
- Message-ID: <C1HBAn.90G@apollo.hp.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:51:59 GMT
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- > If its a 16V they (1.8) are short on the bottom end though not as weak as
- > your statment. The 8V have more bottom end. But that was fixed with the
- > 2.0 16V
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- It is an '87 GTI 16v. The problem wasn't to the point where I thought it pathological, just worse than I would have expected for 'gearing' reasons.
-
- Your explanation here sounds good. I'll be tossing in FI cleaner, for sure.
- I get the car tonight, so I'll be able to test it out and see how much of a
- problem I have.
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- Thanks for all the feedback, folks.
-
- jeff.
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