Aircooled VW South Africa

Its been a while since we saw you johan. See you there

Is there a map to get to the venue?

I will post a map soon.

Directions: Cape Town - Paarl N1, onto N7 (North) towards Malmesbury. At Plattekloof Road turnoff, turn Right.

At the circle,turn Right (3rd Exit) into De Grendel Ave.

First Left into Steenoven road, Right into Swellengrebel Avenue (at the Police station) You have arrived at your destination.

http://maps.google.co.za/maps?oe=utf-8& ... CC0Q8gEwAA



or use the link

Latitude 33.85573S
Longitude 18.54307E

Thank you for all of you that joined in. It was a good car show, considering it was the first time at this venue. And of course the weather that kept many guys from bring their cars out.

Pine, sorry to hear of your misfortune!

Until next year! ( and I will post pics soon.)

It was lekka to be there, sorry I did not meet you, and next time, if God Will, I will have my buggy there.

Thumper wrote:Pine, sorry to hear of your misfortune!

Thanks, Thumper - sorry I missed the show! I had everything planned, got off early from work on Friday, but all of a sudden the buggy started missing Friday afternoon. I changed the condensor, points, petrol filter and adjusted the valve gaps and it seemed to be fine. Took 2 hours sleep, and left late Friday evening to drive through but as I reached George airport on the highway there was extremely dense fog (cars were doing 30km/h on the highway with their hazards on), and the buggy started missing again.

I'm not someone who normally believes in signs and premonitions, but I turned around and went back home. Seems like I wasn't meant to take the 420km journey in the dark.

Through a process of elimination the next morning (pulling each of the plug wires off one by one with the engine running) I came to the realisation that the no 3 plug was dead. A bit strange as I changed all the plugs with new ones less than 1000km ago, but I got a new NGK for the no 3 cylinder, and she is running fine again.

Next time, DEFINITELY, ok??

Pine wrote:..... I came to the realisation that the no 3 plug was dead. A bit strange as I changed all the plugs with new ones less than 1000km ago, but I got a new NGK for the no 3 cylinder, and she is running fine again. ...

Note sure if others have noticed this point, but when a Aircooled VW plug fails, its mostly the # 3 Plug....

This has always tickled me pink, there must be a technical reason for this, but have as yet not found it.

Will have to see if it happens on a one stage cooler plug that I am now using, may just be heat.......

It is because #3 runs hotter than the others due the air flow you get from the cooling tin lay-out to accommodate the oil cooler.

Pine wrote:
I'm not someone who normally believes in signs and premonitions, but I turned around and went back home. Seems like I wasn't meant to take the 420km journey in the dark.



Next time, DEFINITELY, ok??

I ones ignore those signs and nearly wipe out my family in the middle of nowhere. Now if something like that happened I stay at home. Glade you ok.