Comments by "Lok Tom" (@loktom4068) on "Guessing with Other People’s Money!" video.

I remembered back in the late 1970s my local VW dealership replacing everything from fuel guage, guage stabilizer relay, and fuel float bulb sender unit just trying to fix the dam gauge that drops to "0" with full tank of gasoline while driving on highway. That senior chief MASTER TECHNICIAN or shop foreman simply told me what's wrong without a complete diagnosis. Not even check the wirings. Keep changing parts. They rev the engine inside the garage for signs of guage indicator drops to simulate the highway affects to the gas guage problem. Can't solve the problem and the guage kept showing E for empty after a good highway drive. Very disappointed. Only later I took it to another VW dealership with a young mechanic at his mid twenties done a wiring diagnosis and discovered it was just a simple slightly loose wire connection under the back seat where the fuel flow sender comes out to the wire to the dashboard fuel guage. Even he was shocked from the parts replacement paperworks of the original VW dealership. The moral of the story was when the car was driven on the highway the real world condition has vibrations and it caused the connection to shake loose contact even it looks like it's still inside the wire connector. A through out diagnosis is required before claiming a part replacement are nessassy. All he did was disconnected the connection clean and crump the female contact tighter. A flat 1 hour. dealership service fee with tax on the bill was very reasonable. It was solved ever since. That misdiagnosed costed me plentiful of $ from the original dealership. The entire VW car product was another story. I never buy another one of that brand ever since.
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I remembered back in the late 1970s my local VW dealership replacing everything from fuel guage, guage stabilizer relay, and fuel float bulb sender unit just trying to fix the dam gauge that drops to "0" with full tank of gasoline while driving on highway. That senior chief MASTER TECHNICIAN or shop foreman simply told me what's wrong without a complete diagnosis. Not even check the wirings. Keep changing parts. They rev the engine inside the garage for signs of guage indicator drops to simulate the highway affects to the gas guage problem. Can't solve the problem and the guage kept showing E for empty after a good highway drive. Very disappointed. Only later I took it to another VW dealership with a young mechanic at his mid twenties done a wiring diagnosis and discovered it was just a simple slightly loose wire connection under the back seat where the fuel flow sender comes out to the wire to the dashboard fuel guage. Even he was shocked from the parts replacement paperworks of the original VW dealership. The moral of the story was when the car was driven on the highway the real world condition has vibrations and it caused the connection to shake loose contact even it looks like it's still inside the wire connector. A through out diagnosis is required before claiming a part replacement are nessassy. All he did was disconnected the connection clean and crump the female contact tighter. A flat 1 hour. dealership service fee with tax on the bill was very reasonable. It was solved ever since. That misdiagnosed costed me plentiful of $ from the original dealership. The entire VW car product was another story. I never buy another one of that brand ever since.
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