[AT] OT: Firey End to My Car

[Edward Tabor]

Sounds like a starter solenoid might have stuck, and the starter got way 
hot or the bad starter was pulling more juice than the wiring could 
handle.    I have a 1999.5  Jetta TDI, with 105.000 miles.   Mine is 
also nice  and green with a tan and black interior.  Only real problems 
out of  mine has been  dead batteries for unknown reasons, it can happen 
one time if the car sits a day, the next time, it can sit 2 weeks 
without trouble.  Only other trouble was a bad main power relay which 
would cause the car to die, unexpectedly, about 2 times/week. 

Sorry to hear about yours, but the new ones with the PD TDI engines are 
very sweet.  (Mom and Dad bought an 04 Jetta Wagon, TDI with the PD engine.

Ed

Rob Gray wrote:

> I'm curious if anyone has ever had happen to them what I had happen 
> today. I could not get my car started this morning (99.5 VW Jetta 
> diesel with 230K miles). It would not turn over barely at all.I could 
> smell some hot electric smell and since I knew that my starter was 
> going bad I took my truck in to work instead. I pulled up the driveway 
> tonight and instead of the nice green car I left this morning I saw a 
> pile of ashes and metal, No tires or windows or interior left. It had 
> been a very reliable car that got me 50 MPG and never left me stranded 
> on the road once for almost a quarter million miles, but what an end!
>
> Rob
> NE PA
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