I want to set my Scirocco on fire! - Ok, I'm parking my Sportruck next to it then.....

[fahrvegnugen at cox.net (David Utley)]

> 
> From: <danws69@earthlink.net>
> Date: 2005/04/25 Mon AM 11:14:07 EDT
> To: "'matt'" <matt@safearmy.com>, 
> 	"roc" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Subject: RE: I want to set my Scirocco on fire! - Ok,
> 	I'm parking my Sportruck next to it then.....
> 
> If one more piddly-f*&#cking thing goes wrong on that thing....I swear....
> 
> The engine's getting filled with oil, it's getting those wheel-things under
> it so I can move it around, and it's going in perma-storage.
> 
> 
> ---So to give a brief reason of why I loathe this truck even more than
> normal....
> I'm on my way to visit my (now late) great aunt and the voltage regulator
> takes a shit on me...IN  ONE OF THE WORST POSSIBLE SECTIONS OF TAMPA. So - 4
> hours later and a flatbed tow truck ride home....VR replaced, truck is fine.
> Great Aunt however, died that Friday, BEFORE I had a chance to make it back
> over. This is like, the 5th time that this truck has left me stranded when
> I'm actually DOING something. It can't happen when I'm just out on my way to
> my friend's house....no....
> Then, yesterday, for VWs-Over-The-Skyway, I decided to take the Caddy (since
> I'd been pissed at it and left its ass parked in the garage since the VR
> fix). HAHAHAHAA!!! Boy was I STUPID! The truck gets me the 50+ miles down to
> the meet-up point, then, when we all go to fire up our rides and line up, my
> battery's almost dead....hmmm, that's odd, since I KNOW it was charging.
> Anyways, I *did* get it to start, but then, during my visual inspection, I
> see the DAMNED ALTERNATOR WIRING HARNESS BACKED ITSELF OUT OF THE
> ALTERNATOR!!!!! ...thus, making me turn OFF the truck to plug it back in.
> Then, of course, it *wouldn't* start, requiring me to get my dad to jump out
> of line to come back and jump the truck.....
> 
> Heh, no wait, it gets better.....
> 
> So while I'm waiting to line up (water-cooled goes last since this was
> originally "BUSES over the bridge"), I notice my temp climbing higher and
> higher yet oddly, no fan kicking on.....so I turned off the truck. Damned
> thermo-switch decided to take a *partial* crap on me, as it now works when
> it feels like it. So I pulled the wire from the AC compressor so I could
> manually activate the fan via the AC dash controls. But not before my dad
> had to break line *again* to come back to tell me that obvious solution to
> just get the damned thing rolling.
> 
> The truck is currently downstairs laughing at me....we'll see who's laugh
> though when I come downstairs with an M80, a match, and an evil grin.......
> 
> Dan Snow
> Tampa, FL
> '87 16v Scirocco (current Daily Driver)
> '87 16v Scirocco (about to be parted-out)
> '87 16v Scirocco (rear-end trailer)
> '82 DIESEL Scirocco (Thank GOD this car is running under 

I know we have all had days like this, however this indeed sounds like this pickup is crying out for help...  Sell it to me, and I will take care of it for you...  :-)

I know how you feel, seriously.  If I were you, when you had a reasonably good feeling about the truck (if that is possible), go out and look at it very carefully.  I would imagine that if you did this with a clear frame of mind, you might find some other issues with it that might slow you down later on...  You might be suprised what you might find when you look for trouble before it let's you know in a more obvious way...

I offer this because I have gotten some good counseling from other on the list when I was very frustrated for this or that...  Take it easy Dan.  All that truck wants is to be driven, and hard...  :-)

G/L w/it...

David

'83 GTI, Daily Driver...
'87 16V, parts car
'82 pickup, 2.0 16V, collecting dust...