I agree...Get another person to look at the car.

Why on earth would someone replace the links and not the ends?? It's not like the assemblies are expensive.

You can do the front sway bar bushings yourself - if you feel that the car has too much roll. (the bushings are fairly cheap and easy to put in).

The touchiest things that I can think of (besides the harness), are the caps and rotors (they do not like to get old at all), and there is this wire that goes to a fan resistor, that they skimped on it gauge wise, so it can burn out at the connector.

Do a search for reading the codes...with some luck you have the pushbutton LED light feature and you can read some diagnostic codes yoursel (especially after building an inexpensive code reader).

I find that the diagnosis of the engine not reaching operating temperature is ..well...it's weird. Either the thermostat is stuck open/missing, or it's not.

Have fun with the car!

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09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D