That’s probably the stated maintinence requirements in the manual. In practice if you didn’t do that you’d lose a couple of HP every few thousand miles (although the Bug didn’t have a lot of HP to spare…) as your timing drifted slightly or your points started to wear out. You could neglect it for much longer than that and still get around the block however.
Yeah, Rover did one here as well (First! Hah!).It sucked in exactly the same ways. Lovely thing though. Utterly, utterly British. Like an enormous, jet-powered sideboard.
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Nope. Volkswagen factory specified service intervals. I was there, during the 70’s I owned 2 veedubs and I worked on them myself. Of course nobody actually did all that maintenance, but I was quoting factory specs.
This throttle lag seems like the same problem with the first fighter jet planes
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Yep, although fighter jets spend a lot less of their life idling at red lights than a passenger car.
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