West Coast Metric? (Dealer POOP!)

[onesixv@juno.com (Eric L Ellis)]

This is what I gathered from my parts pal at the dealership. (Yes, I have
a couple of friends that work at the dealer parts counter)

VWOA, as most of you know, has seemingly been nutty about the use of ANY
of its copyrighted material in unauthorized places.  The reason it's been
going on so vigorously is because VWOA hired an outside company to track
down illegal use their of logos and etc.  The company they hired gets
paid by the number of suits won for infractions, or something like that.

The word is, WCM was somehow using the VW name or logo(s) for profit and
not giving VW it's dues.  VW sued the shitola outta them and Rocky
Mountain thus closing Rocky Mountain down and trimming WCM's catalog by a
substantial amount.

I know that the majority of WCM's water cooled stock was simply
repackaged VW original stuff.  In the mid 1990's I priced several things
between them and the dealer (who has the ability to adjust the price
down...if they like you) and as I remember, 80% of the time, the dealer
was cheaper.  Not much of a loss in my book.  But, I don't have an MK1
that needs a windshield seal.  Sorry guys-n-gals.

I can't confirm some of the above because it's second hand info, so don't
e-mail me back to give me any crap if you find out otherwise.  I have a
short fuse and a .45 hollow point makes a big hole.

Eric
"Good, bad...I'm the guy with the gun!"
http://www.geocities.com/blitzkrieg16v
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http://www.geocities.com/onesixv

On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 21:27:21 -0500 Allyn <amalventano1@comcast.net>
writes:
> i think they made everything in house. they gave up watercooled and 
> went all aircooled (the
> bastards, that move made no sense whatsoever, as the demand for 
> older watercooled stuff is going
> up). I called them 3-4 years ago intending on blowing a grand in 
> seals (was going to replace every
> piece of rubber in a project rocco), only to get 'we dont carry then 
> anymore'. I politely told them
> they just lost a grand before slamming the phone down.
> Al
> 
> Allyn Malventano, ETC(SS), USN
> 87 Rieger GTO Scirocco 16v (daily driver, 170k, rocco #6)
> 86 Kamei Twin 16V Turbo Scirocco GTX ('it has begun', rocco #7)
> 87 Jetta 8v Wolfsburg 2dr (daily driver, 260k, 0 rattles, original 
> clutch, driveshafts, wheels :)
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John C. Worden" <scirocco@powerlink.net>
> To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 5:41 PM
> Subject: West Coast Metric?
> 
> 
> > Anyone know what happened to them carrying H2O pats?  They had a 
> lot of
> > nice things:MKI window and door seals,
> > door panels and inepensive headliners and carpets.  Maybe somebody 
> on this
> > list knows somebody there and could find
> > out who they got their seals from and if they made them if they 
> would
> > consider making more.
> >
> >
> >
> > John C. Worden
> > Bucksport, Maine
> >
> > '98 Dakota 4x4-Just rolled 100K
> > '86 Scirocco 8V-
> > '81 Scirocco 2.0 16V -
> > '78 Scirocco Brazil Brown Metallic,  4 speed.
> >
> 
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