Re: I got to drive my very first Rocco today (LONG)

[Gary Huff <scirocco86@home.com>]

Right on, and don't let the little things dishearten you. Keeping these cars working right can be kind of rough -- also very taxing on patience, but it's worth it IMHO. The feeling of accomplishment, along with the fun factor in driving them is worth it to me. Do yourself a favor though, stick with the 8v cars :) The 16v stuff is a whole different ball game, and if I had my druthers way back when, I think I would have stuck with a really well built 8v car instead of buying my tornado red money pit. Just my personal prefference/opinion I suppose. Peace,
	-Gary Huff


On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 11:56:38PM -0700, Robbie MacDonald wrote:
> Today I drove my very first Scirocco it was awesome! I
> am 16 and the Scirocco is my first car. Well, will be
> my first car if I get my grades up. I just completed
> my second year of advanced auto shop and I am certain
> that I want to be an automotive technician. I love
> working on cars. Originally my first car was going to
> be an 84 Honda P.O.S. and my stepbrother had the
> Rocco.  I worked on that Honda all the time wishing it
> were a nicer car.  Then my brother got into a fender
> bender with a deer it took out the P.S. front fender
> and turn signal. It also made a nice bend in the hood.
> That was when I first took a good look at the
> Scirocco. There was some word from my dad that my
> brother didn’t like it all that much now that it was
> kind of F***ed up. So the Scirocco sat there for about
> six months while my brother drove my step mom’s old
> ford bronco, which he likes to go offroading on the
> logging trails in, and from what I have heard liked to
> do in the Scirocco a lot. After a while the ford was
> declared his and after talking with my dad for a while
> I was told I could have the Scirocco. So I started to
> work on it (Sitting in it day dreaming about driving
> it). The battery was dead so I couldn’t start it up
> and I was told it needed a clutch. Final I coerced my
> dad into spending money on the car and buying a
> battery. So I put that in and it fired up after a
> while. Then I quickly revved the engine to 4 grand
> what did I see come on but the battery light and the
> O2 sensor light, WHAT THE HELL?!?  So I took the
> alternator in to shucks and they tested it and said it
> was fine so I went back to the car to try and figure
> out what was wrong, no luck. After about a month of
> bitching and begging for advice from my auto shop
> teacher he told that the dumb asses at shucks were
> probably wrong and he told me to bring the alternator
> in, so I did and it turned out that the alternator was
> sh*t so I got new bearings and brushes for it and now
> it cranks out a good 14 or so volts. Well then I made
> a ploy to get my dad to let me drive it at least once
> before I got the grades. I told my dad that the car
> would probably run a lot better with some newer
> gasoline in it instead of that now year old stuff it
> had in it he said that that would be fine but I would
> have to wait till I was no longer grounded DAMN two
> more unbearable weeks. So finally today was the day I
> pulled out of the drive way and heard a grinding sound
> which I figured was the wheel rubbing against
> something (because of the crash damage) any way I
> floored her and I was excellent, it had way more low
> end then I was used to. (The only other car I have
> really driven is my mom’s Rav4) any way while I was
> driving I heard the alternator belt squeal every now
> and then which kind of pissed me off but oh well so I
> get to the gas station to fill it up and I go to check
> under the hood just by instinct and what do I find but
> the windshield wiper fluid bottle that I thought I had
> put all the way into its holder cut half way open
> laying around the alternator belt spilling fluid every
> where OH SH*T!!! Thank god nothing else was screwed
> up. Well I hope I get my grades up so I can drive this
> thing my report card hasn’t come in yet but I have a
> felling that it will come with some good news. Any way
> that’s for listening, I mean reading.
> 
> Oh yeah does any one have a windshield wiper fluid
> bottle that they would sell?
> 
> 
> =====
> Robbie MacDonald
> robbiemacdonald@hotmail.com
> scirocco8valve@yahoo.com
> Seattle, WA USA
> '85 8v scirocco
> 
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