mechanic has stolen my 'rocco(really long rant)

[amalventano@sc.rr.com (Allyn)]

easy fix, man, report car stolen and give all addresses necessary.
you'll get your good running rocco back, and apparently it isnt being
trashed, as its on the road...
good luck to ya, and hope to see you (with rocco) at cincy.
dont give it up just yet...
Al

----- Original Message -----
From: <Dubdaze68@aol.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 2:22 AM
Subject: mechanic has stolen my 'rocco(really long rant)


> 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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