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(Very Long Rant)Worst Day Ever - Help me identify what happened to my car
- Subject: (Very Long Rant)Worst Day Ever - Help me identify what happened to my car
- From: killmurder_@hotmail.com (Jerry Carter)
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 02:35:17 +0000
fuel pump passed on? or maybe the fuel pump relay?
The thing about the other drivers is typical, and will probably never
change, unless you move to a place where people have respect for thier
fellow man, but I don't think they have roads there. on the other hand, I
stop at least once a week on my way home from work to help a stranded VW on
hill 60 (a long hill on the highway here) but those that I help usually tell
me that they've been there for a while, and are really thankful for anything
I can do.
Is it just me? Am I the only one that will stop to help a stranded motorist?
Jerry C
81_scirocco
>From: "Justin Tomlinson" <unklebob@fatchicksinpartyhats.com>
>Reply-To: <unklebob@fatchicksinpartyhats.com>
>To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: (Very Long Rant)Worst Day Ever - Help me identify what happened to
>my car Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:54:10 -0800
>
>Today has to be one of the worst days I've ever experienced. I was
>driving from Clearwater, Fl to Orlando, a drive I'm used to making
>(1-2 times roundtrip a week). When I got to my exit on I-4, my car
>started bucking and kicking, and I couldn't accelerate (this in
>stop-and-go traffic, of course), and then stalled. I manouevred it
>as far out of the right lane as I could (there was no emergency
>lane), and put my blinkers on. I don't have a cell phone, so I
>just sat there trying to start the car, it would start, but
>despite my efforts to rev it, it'd die almost immediately. So I
>waited... nobody would stop and help, everyone would rush around
>me almost hitting my poor car. Finally, after 10-15 minutes, it
>started back up, and I managed to get it off the highway, but as I
>was getting it down the road (Colonial in Orlando, very busy
>road), it decided to start doing the same thing from a traffic
>light, so I pulled into the middle turn lane (I was stupidly in
>the left lane), and put the flashers on again. People once again
>just queued up behind me instead of trying to help, honking their
>horns and speeding around me when they could. Finally I managed to
>wave down a cop who pushed me into a parking lot (I couldn't push
>myself as I was alone and with two cats, so I couldn't manage it
>across a busy intersection alone). It refused to start, so I
>called AAA and had it towed. Here I am now. Sorry for it being so
>long and stuff.
>This is my 82 by the way.
>
>Justin Tomlinson
>Orlando, FL
>88 16v Scirocco
>82 8v Scirocco
>
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