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All Bosch parts - Martin at The DDB set me up with good stuff and spent some time "mentoring" me in the proper ways of VW maintenance. I'll take all this advice I've received and turn it over to Martin's more experienced hands for now! PD > On 27 Apr 2004 at 4:07, type3@comcast.net wrote: > > > It gets about 200 miles to a full tank of gas - roughly 20 mpg. seems > > lower than what everyone says they get out of their cars. Exhaust > > smells rich on my car all the time. > > 20-22 is not all that unusual. > > > Strange thing is that all this rough idle came about after all the > > tune up. > > Yes, that is odd. Did you use all Bosch parts, or are these parts which came > from K-Mart...? > > > One last thing: Brand new dist cap - however when I pulled it to > > check for moisture it looks like crap inside - the contacts all look > > very abused, more like what i'd expect to see from an old one - not a > > clean new one out of the box. Just installed it 2 days ago. > > The visual appearance of the cap contacts is totally unimportant. I'm surprised > it looks bad this soon, however. Is there any chance that the rotor has > actually been touching it. There should be only minor damage from the spark > jumping the gap between the rotor and the outer contacts. They should never > touch. > > > > -- > ******************************* > Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org > Madison, Wisconsin, USA > ******************************* > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org >