My life with my Scirocco so far

[alexdpritchard at hotmail.com (alex pritchard)]

>From: "Patrick Bureau" <ats@longcoeur.com>
>To: <T0mmylee182@aol.com>,<scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: RE: My life with my Scirocco so far
>Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 07:50:41 -0600
>
>Ahaha, welcome to the wonderfull world of scirocco... and theask yourself..
>why do I only have one sciroco to work on ?
>
>ATS - Patrick Bureau - ats@longcoeur.com (new email address)
>===========================================
>1985 2L JH/3A+KS CIS Scirocco 102.5WHP/121Torque
>http://ats.longcoeur.com/ (new web address - shorter to type)
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
>[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of T0mmylee182@aol.com
>Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 10:45 PM
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: My life with my Scirocco so far
>
>  Can anyone relate with my so far bad luck with my scirocco? I know the
>owner
>of Project Scirocco from Eurotuner can...
>  I bought my '87 8v Scirocco for $995.00 and it was fine for 2 months, 
>then
>my alternator belts decided that they didn't want to work or keep my 
>battery
>
>charged anymore, so I paid $70 for a new battery and then $223 to get the
>alternator belts fixed my my friends at Hydrex in Emmaus, PA.  The same 
>week
>I get
>my car back, my new tires decided to slid through a stop sign into a metal
>guard rail only to result in a busted turn signal lense, which cost me $50
>from
>Volkswagen and they told me that they only had 15 left in the COUNTRY!! 
>(can
>
>anyone prove this?? I don't think so...) The week after I get the lense put
>back
>on, my linkage from my shifter pops off, I get it fixed my a friend, and
>have
>my friends at Hydrex check it out, and they tell me everything is fine, 
>only
>
>for 2 days until the linkage pops off again!  I get it fixed at Hydrex, 
>only
>to
>take it back the same day because it wasn't fixed right, (3rd gear was 
>where
>
>1st was, 1st was in reverse, I don't think that there was a 2nd gear...) so
>about $150 later, my Scirocco is running great again, if the year was 1987,
>my
>car would be practically brand new.  I realized that I can't be the only 
>one
>
>with Scirocco bad luck because when my ride was taking me home from work
>while
>my car was in the shop, we passed a 16v Scirocco broken down on the side of
>the
>road...here is a quote from my mom, "Get a new garage or get a new car!!"  
>I
>
>already said that if something else happens to it, I'm getting rid of it,
>but
>I love it way to much!
>
>Anyone else have these problems??
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