ranting and raving lunatic speach within, read at own risk

[nealtovsen@yahoo.com (Neal Tovsen)]

Waiddaminnit!

In three years you barely spent 3K on the car. Not bad
for *any* car, IMHO. Last year, you decided to go
"whole-hog" on performance/appearance upgrades and
spent $8k, and now you're complaining?

You also didn't mention your Prowler Orange paint job
or the Kamei kit. It looks swell, and I remember
following your progress. That must have been a pretty
heavy part of the 2001 bill. Like I said, it looks
great, and I'm personally glad you did it, but you
can't honestly say it was really necessary, can you?

If anyone around here has ever looked into what it
costs to "customize" any other car for performance or
appearance, they know that Sciroccos and Rabbits are
_dirt_cheap_. The only things cheaper are Mustangs and
Camaros, 'cause there's such a huge market of
mullet-sporting rednecks for them. Looked into what a
Honda or Subaru suspension package costs? How about a
setup for an A4 chassis VW? NOT CHEAP! BMW, Audi, or
Porsche of any vintage? Fogettabouddit! Before you get
yourself in a bundle and throw your car away, think
about the alternatives. Even when you're having a run
of bad luck (as I am currently too), these cars are
still a lot of fun for very little money.

(BTW, this is supposed to make you feel better!) 

:)

Neal


--- ATS - Patrick Bureau <pbureau@attbi.com> wrote:
> Tberk,
> 
> Actually..  I have it broken down in years (I
> actually have a log of repairs
> since 1988 on this car... but 13.7K only coveres
> 1998-now. (when I grabbed
> the car for myself, and for some unknown gave up a
> perfectly good brand new
> Cherokee Jeep (btw a vehicule I have always wanted
> to drive since the 80's!)
> 
> Year 1998 - 610.00
> basic stuf on car tires and shit.. did not know what
> to do with this thing..
> 
> Year 1999 - 2272.00
> Muffler job, changing power window regulators, new
> heater control valve, new
> radiator (you must realize this car was in very poor
> shape, I had still no
> heart to really do anything to this car (was
> considering another jeep and
> crushing this hunk of debris) when my wife jumped
> the boat to steal my jeep
> away (and the jeep is now sadlty enough in poor
> shape.. shes drives .. she
> does not check anything...)
> 
> Year 2000 - 428.66
> I was unemployed, car got to drive 2x a day 5.5
> miles a day.  basics where
> done..
> 
> Year 2001 - 8397.85
> This is were the vw bite me, (well the bank refuses
> a new car loan and I was
> really stuck with it.)90% Parts.
> work done by me (except alignment, shocks and coils
> and muffler job (1rst
> time.. the last job I did I did myself:)
> 
> Year 2002 - 2040.98 - all parts except alignments,
> work by me.
> 
> So 610.00 + 2272.00 + 428.66 + 8397.85 + 2040.98==>
> 13,749.49$ in teh past 5
> years. and most of it in the past year.
> the different in price from the 19K, my record go
> back from 1988.. :)
> 
> Well the problem is not with simple repairs like a
> clucth (30-40 $) it is
> with me I hate redoing things twice thrice to get it
> all together
> as in I now need to change the clutch , well the way
> I see things, my tranny
> has 154K on it, and I have one at brian's that has
> 85K on it
> So I will grab that puppy, change all seals,
> cleanup, slap in Peloquin 80%
> LSD kit, new bolts, New lightweight flywheel, HD
> 16v/8v Clucth kit
> and maybe if I find one in time a 5th .80 comversion
> gear. ( total parts
> bill is curently for that bit at 549$) Yeah I know
> kinda of extreme just for
> a slipping clutch worth 34$. I just hate doing and
> redoing (specially when
> it comes to the large parts of the car (I personally
> do not want to pull my
> tranny every other weekend...
> 
> so my clutch is going to end up costing me 500-600$
> when done.
> 
> Oh Yeah add, another 40$ for engine mounts, and the
> 156$ (bal joint,tie
> rods, and wheel bearing kits) I just ordered.
> Considering I currently bring 0.000000$ to our
> household income. seeing a
> job on the tranny is killing my morale. (yeah I know
> just do the clutch!
> heh)
> 
> Unlike a great many when I do the mechanic, I do it,
> but I personally MUCh
> prefer DRIVING the car than spending my weekends
> fixing the car.
> 
> actually considering selling his recently acquired
> euro bumpers to afford
> the tranny job.. anyone want a used set of straight
> euro bumpers (one is
> sanded down and ready to be primed/paint any colors
> the other is tornado
> red.... 500$. email me
> 
> a broken down morale is a killer...
> 
> 
> 
> =>-----Original Message-----
> =>From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
> =>[mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of
> T Berk
> =>Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 2:43 AM
> =>To: ATS - Patrick Bureau
> =>Cc: _Scirocco Mailing List
> =>Subject: Re: ranting and raving lunatic speach
> within, read at own risk
> =>
> =>
> =>
> =>Just your subject line has me want to read it, you
> know how we are...
> =>;])
> =>
> =>Well, damn- that's a lot of money. I hate to ask
> but how much is parts
> =>and how much is labor? I have consisstantly
> reduced my outlay by doing
> =>most repairs myself.
> =>
> =>This won't get your funds back but I'm thinking I
> can imagine another
> =>$300-500 parts will do ya, and that can be done in
> stages.
> =>
> =>Front end stuff is easy esp if you get it together
> part by part as you
> =>can & do it all at once (source 'new' calipers and
> have the bearings
> =>pressed in, prep up new ball joint-control arm w/
> bushings) and have
> =>them awaiting when yo can get a front alignment.
> =>
> =>1st thing I'd do is replace the rear motor mount
> ASAP and maybe the
> =>front- this will keep the rocking down to a
> minimum, realigning the
> =>motor might just help the clutch last a little
> longer too.
> =>
> =>Good Luck, Take Heart, & Quit Yer Bitchen!
> =>
> =>TBerk
> =>
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=====
~Neal

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