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

[Jean-Claude Desinor <desinor@sympatico.ca>]

  Hey! Welcome to the club!

  What year is it? What color?

  But please no flooring until you have completely checked the car and
changed all the fluids. Gasoline is not the only liquid that gets old
fast, think about the oil, coolant, etc.  That can make the difference
between taking the car out for a spin and driving it back vs *walking*
back.

  Treat it with TLC, and you will be grinning every mile in it for years
:-)

	Jean-Claude
	84 8v (bought brand new way back, 254 thousand kilometers ago)

Robbie MacDonald a écrit :
> 
> 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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