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The usual ranting-long
Quit your whining and get out there and spend some quality time with the
Headache before she decides to spit a valve stem seal out of her coolant
bottle or something.
Drew
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, C Boyko wrote:
> Okay, just to get it out of my system...I'm going to buy a Cavalier.
>
> SO I have this gorgeous, gorgeous new white 88 Cabby (for my daughter).
> (BTW, it's built by Karmann, so it counts as a Scirocco) It was making some
> belt noise at Daun's, but I was too sick to look at it, and it only did it a
> few times for a short period at start up. Plus the car hadn't been driven a
> lot, so I figured it was tired from sitting. (I should have known better,
> this is exactly what my son's belt throwing POS Jetta does, he's on belt #12
> this winter) The car got home (8 1/2 hours) with no issues. So my daughter
> goes out to a movie with friends, I get a call from about 5 minutes away,
> and it's got a battery light, so I tell her to limp it home and get ready to
> head out with a fully charged battery, but it wasn't needed. But the car had
> thrown the belt.
>
> No problemo, says I, I'll get my nephew, the "belt expert" to come over and
> help me get it all tensioned right. (Both he and my son have been blessed
> with the "belts from hell" cars, yes, the NA diesels with air...who puts air
> in a NA diesel?) SO next morning, into town (1/2 hr round trip) to get the
> missing belt, and miraculously, they actually gave me the rignt one.
>
> So we get into the belt replacement, and by the time we're at the point we
> can thread the belt in, the PS/AC/and alternator are pretty well off. Oh
> yes, this car has air. WHO HAS AIR IN A CABBY??? But then it's wait till the
> morning, may as well do all three belts. Another trip to town. And clean up
> rusty bolts and such. Fine, except I'm heading out for an exam, and the only
> night my nephew has free is that same night. SO he says he'll toss it
> together without me. MISTAKE! I come home, and there is a bunch of
> bent/broken shit to replace. Off to the dealer this morning, ( 45 minutes
> round trip) and they can get the parts by Tuesday. Wonderful.
>
> While I'm there, may as well get new lower suspension bolts for Klaus, they
> do alignments, they are a VW dealer, they fit every A1 in the civilised
> world, so surely they should have those. NOPE! Tuesday.
>
> So there you have it, now you know why it takes me freaking forever to do
> anything.
>
> SO the tallly in the Wind Tunnel at the moment?
> Ford - dead charging system
> Headache- due to plot something at any given moment
> 1980 - runs but too rotten to jack up
> Klaus- IRS ( invisible rear susension) -that'll be fixed once I' get off the
> computer.
> Cabby- no alternator, and so many bolts loose it may never run again, but
> I'm still thrilled with it!
>
> I'm keeping the bug as far from those A1s as is possible, I don't need it
> getting any ideas.
>
> But I love them all...remind me why again?
>
> Cathy (looking for a Cavvy when I get the chance...)
>
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