On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:09:47 -0700, Gunner Asch
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On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:23:30 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:49:46 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:35:50 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:38:45 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:
former VW mechanic.
Oh, you're the guy who actually worked on 'em? I'm the guy who would
always say, with a smile "Oh, a VW? The crusher is over there."
I LOVE beetles! Well..except for the Super Beetle.
Between hearing the heads flop 1/4 inch off-seat on acceleration,
seeing a gazillion of them on fire on the side of the road, getting my
hearing reamed by their high-pitched squeals, and being in a VW van
@45 degrees in a 40knot gust on a bridge near Mountain View, CA once,
I had my fill early on, thankyouverymuch.
You are talking about badly maintained bugs. They are almost as bad as
a badly maintained Caddy or Volvo or Chevette.
Oh, I forgot to mention the rear-enders in Bugs, the 99% of owners who
didn't take their POS in to have the braked adjusted weekly, as they
needed.
While they can indeed have issues, the technology is well mature, well
documented and has improved a 1000 fold from 1939..or 69
No doubt. I haven't looked under the hood of a new Bug, and I don't
relaly have any wish to. I would like to play with one of their
diesels, though. It'd power a genset and backhoe right nicely.
But at least they gave you carbon-monoxide-filled heat during the
winter, eh?
Only on a poorly maintained one. Does your current ride ****
antifreeze on your foot from a poorly maintained heater core?
No, and I'll bet no VW you owned did, either.
But, as a subset of the population, VW drivers were always known for
their crazy driving and total lack of maintenance. Anyone who
wasn't/isn't a VW freak knows that. Only those who did their own work
kept up their Bugs at all, it seemed.
--
If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do,
we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we
cannot do. -- Samuel Butler