Picked up my winter beater...

[ydrogs at gmail.com (Gordy Stedman)]

Sounds like bajaguy lied his ass off as I quote "this is a solid running car
people come get it".  Not very solid if you have to wrench on it for an hour
to get it started.  Hope you paid less than his original price of $1000 :)
I have done the same thing before in buying a Scirocco that was not exactly
what I was looking for.  On the bright side undercarriage rust fixes are
easier to hide than body panel rust fixes. Plus she looks good on the
outside which is the opposite of all my babies.  Good luck with the new
addition.



On 12/11/06, Mark F. <mk1mark@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ... but I probably shouldn't have.
>
> The ad:
>
> <http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=2915739>
>
> The body looked pretty decent on it (for a Canadian car anyways), so I
> didn't think the underbody would be rotted.  I was wrong - the rockers
> have a few holes, but the worst thing is the passenger side rear beam
> attachment point is rotted pretty bad.  It was dark and cold, the
> seller was late, we had to work on it for an hour to get it started,
> and my friend who drove me out there had to get back home for a party
> (the car was two and a half hours away) so I didn't check it over as
> thoroughly as I should have.  I would have passed on it had I noticed
> the rot...  In my defense I have never seen a Scirocco with a decent
> body like this that had such severe rot underneath.
>
> The exhaust is also toast (seller said it just needed a muffler), as
> are the rear struts, front strut bearings, heater fan, shift
> linkages/bushings, engine mounts, and the wheel bearings howl like a
> banshee... The tach, fuel and temp gauges don't work, and the
> windshield wiper blows any fuse under 30amps.   And to top it all off
> the interior smells like a combination of cat piss and horse barn...


-- 
Gordy
MK1 x 4