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mechanic has stolen my 'rocco(really long rant)



Dude that seriously sucks!

-RGK-

At 02:22 AM 4/27/2003 -0400, Dubdaze68@aol.com wrote:
>I seriously can't win......first, after 3 years and $7,000 just in routine
>maintenance, the end is still nowhere in sight....I bought this car to
>replace my Cabriolet, which I intended to modify and restore, using the
>Scirocco as my daily driver.  With this car, I recieved a stack of reciepts
>dating back to the early 90's, showing the excellent care that this car
>recieved.  The PO needed to sell the 'rocco to put a new VR6 into his
>Corrado, and maintain the beautiful Volvo P1800 Coupe that he inherited from
>his wifes father.  I had always wanted a Scirocco 16v, as it was a dream car
>from my youth.  It felt like karma....until I realized that fate has a sense
>of humor.  My Cabriolet still sits in the garage, because the Karmann coupe
>curse has taken firm hold.  Just when you think that you can replace nothing
>else on the car, something seems REALLY wrong...you chalk it up to freezing
>weather, because that's when it started.  NO>>>>>can't be that simple.
>mechanic tells you there's something wrong with the throttle sensor plate,
>even though you KNOW that's not what's wrong with it.  2 months go by with
>your car running like a dog, and then some lame ass mofo breaks into your car
>to get a worthless jacket, a radio that only cost you 150.00 when you bought
>it back in 1998,(and yes, the face wasn't on it, the guy went searching for
>it), a wet dry vac, (which I recovered in the alley the next day) a tube of
>toothpaste and a toothbrush(which was used....wtf would he use that for), and
>who knows what else...take it to a guy an hour and a half away from here to
>get it fixed, because I needed a whole new center console, ( it was sitting
>on the drivers side seat), and a front quarter window, and he had a parts
>'rocco. while I was there, and this is a mechanic my friend uses and never
>has problems with, I ask him to check the timing, and sure enough, it's
>WAAAAYYY off, crank pulley key is stripped, and the camshaft pulley is
>cracked...pay cash, up front, because he says he can have it done in 2 days,
>and waited...kept me informed, fixed a whole lot of little things, and
>then....nothing....haven't heard from him in a week, haven't had my car in 2
>weeks, he won't return my phone calls, and I read in the paper last week that
>he was picked up in a huge drug sting operation in that
>county...yay......that, and the other day, a friend called to ask me if I had
>a white sticker on my drivers rear quarter window, I said yeah(it's Bibendum,
>the Michelin Man), and he said that my car just passed him going the other
>way down the road, and my friend couldn't turn around to catch it..On the up
>side, his father told my friend that the mechanic said that it runs like a
>new car....I'm gonna go cry now......
>
>Patrick Boyle
>
>'87 Scirocco 16v
>'87 Cabriolet
>'84 Rabbit GTI
>
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