On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:26:59 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:

On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:39:48 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Sun, 29 Aug 2010 11:17:17 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:



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.

???? Bugs had self adjusting brakes. Only a complete yutz could drive a
post 64-66 and not have brakes.

Between then and 1970, there must have been no fewer than 10 million
of the manual adjusters out there on the road. C'mon, Gunner. All
your VW-owning friends who weren't mechanics had to pump the brakes a
dozen times before almost stopping in time. Don't you remember?

I remember 56 of them being driven by minimum wage rentacops in oilfield
wastelands and the high desert and having very few problems mechanically
with them. Most had been rebuilt to 1800s and the biggest problems were
parking brakes. The boys would run in someplace, crank the wheels and
grab the parking brakes so they could do a 180 in the dirt.

Think rentacops are VW nutz?
G


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.

The Jetta etc are actually decent cars, though not Bugs. Buddy of mine
takes normal maint..and has somewhere over 350,000 on his diesel VW,
nothing major to report in maint.


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.

G Nope.


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.

So were people who drove Nash Ramblers home from the bar.

You really carrying a torch against the Beetle, arnt you? Someone run
over your foot or something?

No, they just ****ed me off, scared me (brakes and vans) and attacked
my senses (whistling muffler tips, heads).

I detested the vans, simply because they were a pain in the ass to work
on and rather underpowered.

Oh, and Nader took his case against the Corvair but not the VW, which
had an extremely similar axle setup and likely about 10 times the
insurance claims. That's probably the largest ****er for me.

There were at least 20 times the VWs running around then there were
Corvairs too.

Maybe I can steer you away from this sore topic by showing you an
interesting DVD on eBay: http://fwd4.me/bOG The Culler's Reference.
g

Need a copy?

Im sure I have it tucked away somewhere..or can build you one from my
records

Gunner


I am the Sword of my Family
and the Shield of my Nation.
If sent, I will crush everything you have built,
burn everything you love,
and kill every one of you.
(Hebrew quote)