(ot) a1 jetta coupe ?

[hitman88@vwmail.net (hitman)]

 here's the skinny on the car:
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?&id=553916&postid=4882090#4882090
i talked to the guy who does my glass and he said he could get me a new windshield installed for $100. if it runs as good as he says it does from our phone coversation i'm going to buy it as at least a winter car, and if everything is everything with it will probably do some resto. work to it in the spring.
   hit

So Sayeth The Hitman
1988 scirocco 16v "stripe"
1986 scirocco 16v "psycho 16v"
http://www.techography.net:82/brettsgarage


--- drew <drew@dyermaker.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>
>Which year is it?  pre-fender-liner years are very bad for tops of front
>fenders rotting, along with the inner fender well.  I believe plastic
>fenderliners came in 83, possibly 82.
>
>Another spot that's bad for rotting on 83 and 84 cars is in the rear wheel
>well where the filler neck is bolted to the inner well.  This generally
>results in a hole rotted into the trunk - can be seen from inside trunk -
>but you have to look up inside the passenger's rear quarter to see it.
>
>Floors usually hold up fairly well - depedning on how badly the car has
>been abused.
>
>The worst thing by far are windshield leaks - caused as a previous post
>mentioned by rust under the gasket.  The best fix is to repair the rust
>with the windshield removed.  Leaks in the bottom driver's side hit the
>fusebox, causing corrosion and wiring woes.
>
>A1 Jettas are great cars - I can't get enough of them (have 7 of them
>right now)  with all the best of a German-built A1 car plus a great trunk.
>My favourite winter beater to date was an 83 Jetta with a 1.6D - I raised
>the rear end 1" with spacers under the springs and ran 185-65 snows and
>never got stuck (which is saying something with our snow-belt winters.)
>
>Drew
>
>
>On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, hitman wrote:
>
>>   looking at purchasing an a1 jetta 2 door on saturday. gonna use it
>> as a winter car and, if it runs good through the winter, probably
>> refurbish it a lil' next spring/summer. any specific problems i should
>> look for in these cars? or are they pretty much the same as a
>> scirocco?
>>    brett
>> 
>> So Sayeth The Hitman
>> 1988 scirocco 16v "stripe"
>> 1986 scirocco 16v "psycho 16v"
>> http://www.techography.net:82/brettsgarage
>> 
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