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really awful- Typical Repair Cost:
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- Average Mileage:
- 87,000 miles
- Total Complaints:
- 2 complaints
Most Common Solutions:
- upgrade cables to smaller guage (bigger wire) (2 reports)
electrical problem
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A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
My daughter was driving home from work when she noticed the abs light flashing on the dash board. After that she started to smell something burning and pulled over and shut down the engine. Next she called me and I hurried to her location to check out the problem. After I lifted the hood I to could smell the burning and noticed the cover to the fuse box on top of the battery was melted on the left side. I opened the fuse box and observed the black ground wire was burnt and the fuse was completely melted away.
We got the car home and I called my local Volkswagen dealer and they had the parts in stock. The cost was $150.00 for the fuse box and $90.00 for the ground wire to the alternator and $ 7.00 for a new fuse for the ground wire. Amazingly they had these parts in stock and that made me wonder why they would stock parts for such a older vehicle. There was no labor involved since I am mechanically inclined.
- jwthree, Philadelphia, PA, US