Woodchuck,
A private, highly experienced, mechanic noticed it while changing my
brakepads. The one boot was severely cracked but had not yet split. The
mechanic had his own business for 10 years then went to work for Saturn as a
field engineer. He currently works for GM on warranty issues for a region .
He maintains his own business on a limited scale in addition to his GM job.
He has a fair amount of VW experience. I rely on him to maintain both of our
cars. He is reasonable and I can fully trust his opinion.
He said that they should be covered under the warranty. The main point is
that the warranty was 2 weeks from expiring. VW should have been proactive,
especially considering the problems and service hassles that we have had
with this car. It took four dealer visits, and three incidents of
overheating for VW dealers to fix a bad water pump. Then VW would not give
me a component letter to extend the engine warranty. This is our fourth VW
and very likely the last. Fun car, well designed, Fair reliability BUT bad
service and little support from the US headquarters. My wife's 85 Jetta had
the heater block replaced out of warranty. Now we go through this.
We live in Arlington, VA. The winters here are not that bad.
"Woodchuck" <stv_euroski.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "about to fail", VW pays for parts which fail not normally for the ones
> about to fail. CV boots are one of them things that they are good or bad,
> bad being they are split and tossing grease al over everything. And... I
> can't remember if I ever replaced one with only 46k miles on, but then
again
> it maybe different in your area depending the weather conditions, etc.
> Wondering, how did you figure the "about to fail" conclusion?
>
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> "Steve" <h90943.RemoveThis@hotmail.commie> wrote in message
> news:11ikbpc4kfup77f@corp.supernews.com...
> > My argument was against VWofA, not a specific dealer concerning the
> > component letter. After some serious, polite arguing, I got the dealer
to
> > fix both boots. That was so stupid because it was about to fail, yet
they
> > would not help out and replace it before it failed. The service manager
> > was
> > like David Spade in his "No" commercials for Capital One credit cards.
> > Would I buy a fifth VW ? Not so sure now.
> > "Woodchuck" <stv_euroski.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:1a76a$4326b3ae$41c7133a$8560@SALSGIVER.COM...
> >> Only one suggestion, find another dealer!
> >>
> >> "Steve" <h90943.RemoveThis@hotmail.commie> wrote in message
> >> news:11icc66gtvcjpbf@corp.supernews.com...
> >> > VWoA would not give me a Component Letter after my 1.8T overheated 4
> > times
> >> > as a result of a bad water pump and 3 failed repair attempts. Damm
> >> > cheap
> >> > bastards.
> >> >
> >> > Now at 46K miles the CV boots are falling apart. The dealer sez that
> > they
> >> > are not covered but VWoA sez that they are under the 4/50 powertrain
> >> > warranty.
> >> >
> >> > Are there ny VW employees here that can help ?
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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