Taillights
The taillights on my 99 Golf GL don’t seem to last more than 2 hours of driving. I’ve spoken to a number of other vw drivers and they seem to have the same problem, but I can’t find anything on the www regarding this topic. As most of you can probably sympathize, bringing this problem up to the dealership resulted in frustration, money spent, and more burnt out taillights. I’ve taken this up with vw corp office…but no reply yet. Anybody out there have this problem? Any solutions recommendations out there? I’m tired of spending my time and money at the dealership.
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YupOldBull Said,
October 25, 2004 @ 1:15 am
Taillights – Terrible design. Terrible defect. Terrible cause and effect.
Here are 2 threads that might be useful.
Coolant migration.
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=829132&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=7&fpart=1
Coolant migration TSB.
http://pics.tdiclub.com/data/3005/3093Coolant_Migration.pdf
Beck Said,
October 25, 2004 @ 1:43 am
Taillights – You guys shouldn’t be surprised about this Volksyugo coolant migration thing. Remeber, they can’t even design proper wire routing from the car body to the doors that will prevent wire fatigue and electrical connection loss to door component which is so common on today’s Volksyugos. I swear, Volksyugo is still decades behind other manufacturers when it comes to modern, basic design practices with cars. Dummkopfs!
ZX1100F1 Said,
October 25, 2004 @ 12:57 pm
Taillights – The last time I saw this it was caused by coolant migration.
Check the oblong shaped connecter on the round coolant tank under the hood on the passenger side and see if anti-freeze is leaking into the connecter, believe it or not it will pressurize the whole wire-harness and cause mega trouble if that is it.
Sometimes it will fill the taillight up with coolant in extreme cases, or your problem could be anything as electrical problems are sop for these sleds.