Queen of the piddly ass tech procedures once again

[scirocco16vr32 at gmail.com (Chris Bennett)]

Someone was telling me that the NB's are very temperamental about the 
headlights. He has owned a couple of them and it was always one light that 
kept dying on him. It was the right headlight on one and the left headlight 
on the other. It was to the point that he usually replaced 3-4 on one side 
before having to do the other. 
 I finally got mad at my tail-lights and fixed that one position that never 
really worked right on the 87. It was the filled in part (fog I think) on 
the US ones. I got the great idea one day to open up that hole and get an 
extra bulb in there. No fancy switches I just want the local idiots to see 
me a little better at night so that when they hit me (and it's only a matter 
of time) I won't feel bad for getting out of the car and beating someone 
like they slapped my Momma. I have always told my wife that if I get in an 
accident and it's not my fault (especially if it's something that's going to 
total the car) I am going to jail. That's all there is to it because 
especially with the Scirocco's I am not getting my investment taken care of 
by the insurance company. A good example of that was when the old lady hit 
my 85 with the land yacht... It scraped the door and got the area just 
behind it decently... repairable but the insurance company was trying to 
total the car. Ended up being $650 worth of damage, and they said the most 
they would pay would be $700. So anyhow I cut the plastic peice out and put 
a pair of bulbs in. Great fine good. I get three lights per side when I hit 
the alarm, that's all I see. When I drive the thing on Norfolk's wonderful 
smooth roads (ahem) and I get out I notice that one bulb on one side doesn't 
work. So I pop the hatch, pull the bulb assembly and remove the bulb... 
good, put a meter on the harness with the lights on... good. So I put the 
bulb back in and it works until next time I drive in Norfolk. (daily) Well I 
had a couple of bulb assemblies took the best one I had and rubbed the 
contacts with a pencil eraser. (thank God for HO scaled model trains) and 
installed it. Works fine now. It is Norfolk-Proof. LOL
 On 8/27/05, C Boyko <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote: 
> 
> On 1:46:02 am 08/27/05 "Jim Ruffi" <sciroccos@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: scirocco-l-bounces+sciroccos=earthlink.net@scirocco.org
> > > [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces+sciroccos=earthlink.net@scirocco.org]On
> > > Behalf Of C Boyko
> > > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 7:28 PM
> > > To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > > Subject: Queen of the piddly ass tech procedures once again
> > >
> > >
> > > ...Then a seat bushing so the DS seat
> > > doesn't swim around, a few of those white clippies to hold down the
> > > sill trim, and most piddly assed of all, one of those teensy weensy
> > > little white nylon bushings to hold the wire that allows the split
> > > rear seat back to flop down. Done, done and done.>
> > > cathy
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Sometimes, living with those piddly issues can be such a daily
> > hassle, that fixing 'em can be more satisfying than tacking some
> > bigger project!
> > Jim
> >
> Oh, and I forgot one, my accelerator pedal now has a rubber covering, 
> where
> once it was bare metal. Good for 5 hp. I hope. Off to the track ( to sit 
> in
> the rain?)
> 
> Cathy
> 
> 
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