RE: Fifth gear or no fifth gear

["Daniel Snow" <res00v06@gte.net>]

That's why I do as much work on mine as I can, the rest I do with my dad
(who has his own 16v lowered 'Rocco).

I took her in once to get aligned after I got new rims and tires and the
jack-ass started lowering the lift w/o adjusting the camber (which I could
see by the display screen was off by more than 1.33%!), then he said there
was no way to adjust it which sent me into "mechanic-mode" and I schooled
him on the finer points of my car's suspension. The guy got so pissed he
left my car and started working on someone else's car! Needless to say I
won't be taking my car back there for ANYTHING!

(Tires Pluz in Tampa, FL - longhaired guy w/ shitty attitude)

Dan
'87 16v Rocco
'00 Jetta

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
[mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of DNK006@aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 11:10 AM
To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: Fifth gear or no fifth gear


> Just my useless ASE certified experience talkin here but, your mechanic
>  sounds like he's rather ignorant as to what trannies DO and how they do
>  it. The bottom line is you have a 5th gear and its in a close ratio
>  gearbox.


Good call.  Whenever a mechanic says something like that to me, I just walk
out the door.  I have seen some work "pro" mechanics have done to VW's...
not
always pretty.  Not to say I don't trust most mechanics ability to work on
VW's... you just have to be very very careful.  My favorite thing to do, is
watch the tire people jack up my car from the floorboards.  It just warms my
heart I tell you!  and it is so great that they accept your advice, like
"NO!!! thats not the frame!!!"  or "STOP!!!"

Put it this way:  I have had 4 Sciroccos.  3 MKII's, all of which have
floorpan damage.
BTW:  no damage happend on my watch!

Ben
86 8v
84 8v

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