Whos left on here whos an ardent VW driver.

Is this on subject?

Not as many as some others, but:

I've always liked Type 3s, and if VW had been able to do something about the rust (and exhaust valves on the injected ones), they would have had a winner. I only ever see one on the road around here now, a baby blue Squareback. There used to be others.

Non-VW (sorry!):

The Delica is definitely an old-school 4x4, despite the shift-on-the-fly transfer case, self-locking hubs, and karaoke input on the stereo. Starting her diesel on a cold morning has more to do with Caterpillar or International Harvester...

Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Non sequitur. Your ACKS are Grid: CN89mg uncoordinated." ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Nomad the Network Engineer

Incorrect attribution.

I did not write the message you are asking about.

And in reply to your question, in my opinion, no, it's not on topic (for the group rec.autos.makers.vw.watercooled) or subject (for the thread "Who's left on here ...").

- Bill

Thanks Bill, how are they putting this junk under different people's names in here?

If you look at the full headers, they're all coming from interware.hu, they're just spoofing the usernames - look to be pulling the names of regulars from various newsgroups, posting junk under their names, and cross posting to various unrelated newsgroups. It's also been showing up in rec.autos.driving and alt.autos.studebaker but either they've stopped or my ISP is already filtering them out.

nate

Joseph Gliebe wrote:

You would think an intelligent human being would have something more worthwhile to do, lol

Back on topic...

For the wages of....nvrmnd...

Anyway, I wouldn't consider myself an ardent VW fan. In fact, I'm really PO'd at VWoA after the shoddy windows and various electrics and goofy cooling system. Also not happy they took the TSB's off the free web (now a pay for service). They took 'em down when folks started bringing them into dealers, telling them they had 10-15-22a's problems. Dealers couldn't be bothered to file them properly so just tossed 'em, lost 'em, dog ate 'em, etc. Seems dealers would be happy to have customers come in asking to have VW give them money, but maybe it was interrupting their cappuccino's.

All that said, overall I still like the car. When it turned over 100kmi a couple years ago I went looking around. I liked the Audi A3, a lust, er, lot! The Acura TSX was nice for a slightly larger sedan. But I couldn't see that I liked them $30k more than what was already paid for. The Japanese cars? I drove the highly praised Mazda 3 a was really disappointed. Felt like a rubber car :( That's compared to my Jetta with worn out upper front strut mounts! Suburu Impreza/Saab 92x was ok, but can you spell turbo lllllaaaaaagaggggGGGG! I think the old Buick Regal T-types had less lag. They definitely had more of a rush :)

So ardent? No. Driving it 'til it stops and hoping that's awhile? Yeah.

Mark '95 Jetta GLS

Still here from time to time. Have moved up in the world with an 06 MKV GTI DSG and an 07 2.0T Passat. Still have the 82 convertible and still hoping to upgrade the Buick-like suspension and replace its anemic virbrating 1.7 with something better. And still have a shed full of parts from 82 convertible #1 and 78 rabbit parts...and some 95 Golf parts, too. Sold the Golf last March. What a great car.

I really prefer usenet to the web forums. For one thing, I can open and read the messages much quicker and for another there are very few " how would my car look with these wheels" posts.

Actually, the Vortex MK I and cabrio forums are pretty good...very friendly and helpful and similar to this newsgroup. I can't say the same for the MKV forum. Bill

VW Vortex just seems like such a weird place to go. Lots of kids or kid like older people is my perception. Not enough scientific reasoning over there. tdiclub seems to be pretty good. Most of the usenet forums I go to are pretty civil. There are a few groups where you have to kill or ignore the lunatic posters but most are pretty good.

I did an Audi 2L shortblock with a knock sensor ignition. GTi head on top with a G-grind cam and a Techtonics exhaust. That was fairly fun to drive and still got great mileage. I did get tired of the smashed up body parts after the buck got me. Also I had a hard time using my earbud in the 84 GTI. Too much background noise. My 2003 TDI is so much more quiet. Not nearly as much fun to drive as it weighs almost

You're right, most of the MKV Vortexers seem like kids. I pretty much only look at it to see if any technical issues are popping up that I need to be aware of. For example, it seems that MKV A/C compressors are all just waiting to die, fuel pumps can't handle extremely high temps or high altitudes, PCV valve deterioration allow turbo boost leaks, etc. I'm hoping these items will all conk out before the warranty is out.

I recall your 2.0 GTI stories. In fact, the Audi 2.0 with a JH head and knock sensor is exactly what I'm after for the convertible. I wish I could have kept my 78. I bought it new but by 1999 it had developed rust in the windshield pillar. That would have been a great car for a

Bill

William Maslin wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@nntp.msstate.edu:

If you want old know how and american engineering to fix german precision on vortex, hang out in the Scirocco forums, where we all still drive A1's. :) And.. we actually all get along.

Does 274,000 miles on a one owner 86 Scirocco make me a classic vw fan?

Well your mileage is a bit low.;-) I got rid of the GTI with close to

Jim Behning wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

We bought his and hers and we just can't find another car we are happy with. So we just keep them up, hers is at 240k. Her's is an 87 black