Towed from same spot on road twice in one week(long)

[Dubdaze68@aol.com]

I think this makes everything ......I have officially replaced everything on 
the car.....After dumping more money at this car than I could have ever 
possibly thought, something else goes wrong.  My car has been running like 
garbage for a couple of weeks, so I chalked it up to the plug wires getting a 
little old.  They're due for replacement in the spring.  So, I'm driving the 
other night, get on a 4 lane highway and give it some juice.  The next thing 
I know, the thing is sputtering at 4,000 RPM.  In second gear, it just gets 
to 4,000 and sputters a little more harshly and at 5000 the car just dies.  
There is NOWHERE to pull off, so I let it drift almost a 1/2 mile to a place 
where I can pull over.  The whole time I'm drifting, I'm cranking the car to 
no avail.  It just seems like I'm getting no fuel whatsoever.  So, I have it 
towed to my mechanic, he calls me and tells me the car is done, he replaced 
the fuel pump relay and the car is working just fine.  He leaves the key in 
it, and at 10 pm I go to get the car.  Mind you, his shop is in the middle of 
nowhere.  I get in, and the car starts better and runs better than it has in 
a while.  Great, I think.  So, on the way home I stop to get gas, and I 
notice when I'm pulling out of the station that it's sputtering again.  So, I 
get up to the light where it died before, and I test it out.  4000 RPM and it 
stutters rather harshly, bucks twice and dies.  Mind you, the tach is reading 
zero, but the engine is still running, but I have no control over engine 
speed or anything.  I have to let it drift 1/2 mile again, and when I called 
AAA, they didn't even have to change the description of where I was.  My 
mechanic tells me to bring the fuel pump off of my Rabbit GTI out, because I 
put a brand new one on before it died a year and a 1/2 ago.  So I lay out 
underneath a Rabbit in the rain and take the pump off, only to discover after 
we put it on the 'rocco that after priming, it still isn't working.  Works 
when you jump it at the fuse panel, but that's about it.  He then checks and 
notices that I'm not getting any spark whatsoever.  Pulls the cap off the 
dist. to notice that it's drowning in oil.  OOOPS.  That explains the poor 
running.  So, we think the hall sender is fried, because I didn't know in a 
16v that if you have no spark, the fuel pump won't run so you won't flood the 
cylinders.  Looks like I'll be ordering a new dist. in the morning.  I'm 
getting really sick of drivin g my mothers '97 Neon.....ill handling, no 
steering, non sealing window, automatic piece of shit........


'Patrick
'87 Scirocco 16v
'87 Cabriolet
'84 Rabbit GTI

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