RE: NON-ROC Canadian Rabbits

["Aaron Ness" <aaron@makuta.com>]

Yes, Illinois salts their roads too.  I think it's a midwest thing.  It
sucks.

It's interesting to hear about rusted-out rabbits, because my parents owned
a yellow '75ish back in the day, and when they got rid of it, sometime in
the early '80s, the floor had gaping holes, and the front end was worn to
the point that it kept eating up tires.  This was in NW Indiana, BTW, where
salt is prevalent and 'rocs are nonexistent.

Aaron
'84 Scirocco - Woo-hoo!
'70 Bug - hibernating
'87 Nissan truck - Soon to be for sale
'87 Jeep Cherokee 4.0

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Campbell [mailto:johnca100@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 5:10 PM
> To: marie@blaze.ca; aaron@makuta.com; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: NON-ROC Canadian Rabbits
>
>
>
> >A guy I work with used to be a partsman at a VW dealer when they were
> >building the Rabbits at the Westmorland factory. He says the
> reason VW got
> >rid of that factory is because the RAbbits that were coming
> out of there
> >were pure junk.  He told me they were prematurely rusting in
> places that
> >were etrimental to the survival of the car and that VW
> decided to scrap the
> >whole idea.
>
> Interestingly enough, I've owned four of these things(83-84
> Rabbit GTI's),
> only one was rusty.  That one spent it's life on the water in
> New England -
> literally - it's parking space was in front of a cable that
> separated the
> parking lot from the beach.  At high tide, when I picked the
> car up, I had
> to run the windshield wipers from the spray; it was a sunny day.
>
> The second one was also a New England car, but not on the
> seashore(Boston).
> The third came from Colorado, fourth from Illinois.  Only the
> first one was
> rusty - and still not unsafe, actually looked reasonable(the
> rust was on the
> underbody/underhood).  New England salts roads, not sure
> about Illinois,
> Colorado does not. The first one also had the highest
> mileage, by a long
> shot(140k in 92).
>
>
>
> >
> >PS. Every WEstmorland Rabbit up here on the soggy West Coast
> I've seen
> >generally has gaping rust holes everywhere, rocker panels
> seem to be the
> >hardest hit spot.
> >
> >Again, his words, not mine :) If he's wrong, I'll personally
> smack him
> >(something I would love nothing better to do).  :)
>
> I don't know that he's _wrong_, necessarily, but I think it is a bit
> exaggerated.  I've heard all the "US Rabbits suck" stories,
> "fit and finish"
> being poor, electrical problems, etc.  My experience has been
> the exact
> opposite, beyond "fit and finish," as I find it hard to judge
> build quality
> on a car that has travelled 80+K miles:).  I never looked at
> a brand new one
> with that in mind.  Electrically, mine have been great,
> they've all been
> stone reliable, etc.
>
> Dunno.  I have no idea _why_ they closed Westmoreland;
> probably because it
> would have cost much more than it was worth to start
> producing Golfs in
> America.  I've not seen any real evidence that it was a quality issue.
>
>
> JohnC
>
>
>
> >
> >Marie
> >
> >
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