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OMG! It's not the heat, well...

1) Nope for the Vin
2) Dang. Sorry about the problem with the car. Sheesh, mine seems to hate the heat as well.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Winchell, II [mailto:davidwinchell2@sprynet.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 06:47 AM
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: OMG! It's not the heat, well...
>
>OMG! It's not the heat, it's the humidity. Well, it is the heat and
>humidity actually. 
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> 
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>Last night, I took out the 16V to ride over and look at the car Julie is
>buying and get her some information. (Did I send you the VIN?) I left the
>house at 6:45 PM. We have been under heat advisories for about the last
>week. When I left it was still 98*. With the heat index the real feel was
>109. At 6:45 PM people?!?! God, I love the south, but please, a little help
>here?!
>
> 
>
>To make a long story short, about four blocks from my house the car just
>dies right after taking off from a stop. Coast to the side of the road, try
>to restart. not gonna do it. The motor was turning, but not dice. SUCK!
>It's TOO HOT! There I am already drenched is sweat, longing to get home and
>jump back in the shower and the car won't go any where. A couple of minutes
>under the hood and I found the culprit. On the 16V there are two ground
>wires that are joined into one single crimp and attached to the negative
>cable right at the post. It sheared at the connector. What do these go to
>that the car would run with it, but not with out them? Anyone know? 
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> 
>
>I was able to MacGyver the line to get over to John's house and check out
>Julies new ride and then back to mine without incident. I am just curious
>what those grounds lead to that are able to kill the car with out them
>properly attached.
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>
>Dave
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>David Winchell, II
>
>87 2.0L 16V Scirocco
>
>84 Scirocco BBS Turbo G60
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>80 Scirocco S
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>04 .:R32 DBP
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>00 Silverado
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