Moonroof question.

That's the "default" or 1st-Stop to try and cut down on the wind buffeting.

Grab a hold of the roof button, and twist it another 10deg or so (yes, it does feel like you are turning beyond what it is supposed to do).

The roof will now slide back all the way into the roof, outa sight. (and, actually, the wind buffeting doesn't feel much worse, but it is LOUD).

Took me a month or so to discover that one myself - I have a habit of NOT Reading-The-eFfin-Manual. Glen McLean Ottawa '87 Jetta GLI, '97 Golf CL, '03 GTI (Remove the ".NIT.invalid" from the end of my address)

Thanks for the info.

Engineers (me) never read the manuals :)

psycho

That's because most are coming from India and the P.R.C now-a-days.

Sadly that's true :( psycho

Yup. And folks like me are currently out of a job because of it. THe company I worked for was bought by an investment firm at the beginning of July. As of the end of August, 40+ of us, myself included, were let go and there's rumors of more r.i.f's to come at that company. The firm that bought us has a significant number of subsidiaries in India...so guess where our "eliminated" jobs are going.

Oracle layed off their $60K+ a year software programmers so they could hire $6K a year programmers in India. Nice eh? Even corporate helpdesk is in India. You call an 1-800 number and you are talking to a dot head pretending to sound American. They have special english classes to disguise their sing songing accent. Nice eh.

The H-1B allocation is supposed to shrink back to where it was before all the Internet hype. The USA made the middle class in India and also in China. China is still so under used it's really scary. As bandwidth increases, American jobs will decrease in the IT world.

End of my venting.

Yep. That's why over the next few years I plan on bailing out of it completely and getting into real estate instead. Heck I already got the Eurovan to drive clients around in so I might as well get the realtor's license and get going on it.

I don't blame you one bit. Real Estate is good. Good Luck.

Thanks. Yeah it's weird that even in a down economy, real estate still chugs along. I'm in San Diego and the biggest thing that the recession has done is slow the astronomical climb in prices to something less than astronomical, but nevertheless it's still climbing. In the right areas of the country, even real esate is pretty much recession-proof. I guess I'm also just kinda tired of the "keeping up with the Joneses" nature of software...every year you have to take a class or something to learn a new technology just to stay alive and it's just too much for me. Great if you're the type that finds programming fascinating even as a hobby and you monkey with it in your spare time, but when I leave the office at 5:30pm I'm done for the day and don't want to see or write another line of code until

8:30 the next morning. Don't get me wrong...my next job for now will be software and I'm OK with that, but long term I can't afford to count on it as a career.

Well, the planet's not getting any bigger, and people insist on having babies, so real estate is pretty much a sure thing.

-- Mike Smith

Yup. Unless the property is on a toxic waste dump, there's almost a guarantee that it'll appreciate.

Would this method work for an 2002 Passat moonroof as well?? I assume it's the same as the Jetta.. 'TIA'