| [ Total Views: 858 | Total Replies: 13 | Thread Id: 76055 ] |
|
|
 66deluxe
Custom Title Time!
Posts: 1593
Threads: 139
Registered: August 16th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: Murrumba Downs, Brisbane.
Theme: XMBX Pro Green
|
| posted on April 20th, 2009 at 09:38 PM |
|
|
Car parks and me.
Hey kids, well i just got the golf gti back from German Engineering services on Bribie Island(awesome shop and service) the damn thing stopped firing
cylinders, turned out to be the ignition control module, $550 cause its an 04 model had it been an 03 it would have been $98, then theres none in the
country 6-10 days, all fixed and running better than ever. Take the partner Raquel and the kids to the movies today and come back to find some fucker
has reversed into it in the carpark, they left contact details, but alas many phone calls and no answer. Lodged a claim, now i won;t have a car for
another week, when its off getting repaired, it seems i park my car and A: birds shit on it all the time B: people run into it, the above is the
second time since i had it and C: it always gets flyers for gay shit that a man don't need placed under the wiper, like free beauty treatments and
shit like that. I tell ya its the last time i buy a new car.
End of rant.
Damo.
This is my Volkswagen, there are many like it, but this one is mine. Without me my Volkswagen is useless, without my Volkswagen, I am useless.
61 Karmann Ghia 2110cc type1 w Los Panchito's
66 Deluxe Beetle 2270 type 4
10 Subaru WRX Impreza
|
|
|
eraser
Fahrvergnugen
Posts: 970
Threads: 128
Registered: March 11th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: Adelaide
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Powder
|
| posted on April 20th, 2009 at 10:00 PM |
|
|
Hmmm your not as unlucky as this driver i heard/read about at work.
|
|
|
colonel mustard
Son of Jim - Creator of Good
Posts: 2829
Threads: 51
Registered: February 27th, 2009
Member Is Offline
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Black
|
| posted on April 20th, 2009 at 10:10 PM |
|
|
Wow.... that is so low. jack will probably be one of those stupid people who drinks too much one night and decides to drive home and then drives into
a powerpole or something.
Damo, Old cars for the win... have a magna or something crap (no offence,......) for daily drive... if it gets hit, spend the insurance money on a new
engine for your oldschoolcool car.
|
|
|
LUFTMEISTER
Veteran Volks Folk
Posts: 2041
Threads: 119
Registered: July 13th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: BRISVEGAS in a state of flux
|
| posted on April 20th, 2009 at 10:47 PM |
|
|
A Magna sounds good 
Sorry to hear about the hit Dude.
Customer service is not dead in Australia.
Always after HAZET & MATRA & VW factory tools
|
|
|
Phil74Camper
Son of Jim - Creator of Good
Head in the Clouds
Posts: 2703
Threads: 193
Registered: August 28th, 2002
Member Is Offline
Location: Sydney
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on April 21st, 2009 at 07:30 AM |
|
|
It happens with restored cars too. I rebuilt my Kombi camper from a bare shell in 2002-03, and it was finished and glowing less than a week before
someone opened their door into it at the local shopping centre. A big crease on the pristine right rear panel.
I drive a '95 Golf as a daily driver - it's already got a few small dents in it but I'm happy to leave it as is. If I fix it, it will only happen
again.
VW Australia lent me a brand new Eos for a week earlier this year. I was petrified someone was going to dent it, but we both got through the week
OK.
Sorry to hear about the Golf's take of woe - brilliant car otherwise.
|
|
|
newoldmanx
A.k.a.: Billy
Wolfsburg Wizard
Posts: 468
Threads: 52
Registered: August 6th, 2006
Member Is Offline
Location: fiji islands/sunny coast QLD
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: stylin
|
| posted on April 21st, 2009 at 07:57 AM |
|
|
hey Damo, sorry to hear about the bingle seeing as big brother has an eye on us all did you consider it may have been caught on camera??? prob watch
too much csi etc but hey, you never know, modern cars are so x'y to repair and insurance these days is up there, just a thought mate
its just a car for f*%k sake
|
|
|
66deluxe
Custom Title Time!
Posts: 1593
Threads: 139
Registered: August 16th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: Murrumba Downs, Brisbane.
Theme: XMBX Pro Green
|
| posted on April 21st, 2009 at 04:29 PM |
|
|
Well i got in contact with the driver, he was driving a VW Crafter, and it was his comapny van, so i have all the details and lodged a claim with
insurance everything is going well so far. Newold manx, is that engine still going good?
And no i aint driving a magna, i hate mitsubishi.
This is my Volkswagen, there are many like it, but this one is mine. Without me my Volkswagen is useless, without my Volkswagen, I am useless.
61 Karmann Ghia 2110cc type1 w Los Panchito's
66 Deluxe Beetle 2270 type 4
10 Subaru WRX Impreza
|
|
|
phatratpat
Fahrvergnugen
Posts: 958
Threads: 26
Registered: March 6th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: brisbane nth
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: when the bug bites it bites HARD ! ! !
|
| posted on April 21st, 2009 at 05:41 PM |
|
|
you drive watercooled you pay the price !!!
glad to hear he was honest about it all
whens that shitbox beetle gunna be on the road ???
|
|
|
matt
A.k.a.: Choco
Insano Dub Head
Posts: 743
Threads: 85
Registered: December 5th, 2002
Member Is Offline
Location: Mt Gambier SA
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on April 21st, 2009 at 07:17 PM |
|
|
i have a black magna wagon that the wife drives and it always get hit in the school carpark!!! the side of it looks like a piece corrigated iron. damn
school mums in their 4x4's, no respect for other peoples cars!!!
|
|
|
donn
Wolfsburg Elder
Posts: 3515
Threads: 428
Registered: November 30th, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: NEWCASTLE NSW
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue
Mood: LAID BACK AND CONFUSED
|
| posted on April 21st, 2009 at 08:07 PM |
|
|
What to do next time. I was reversing in a very crowded parking area on private property at my work place, no one around but thought I may have gone a
bit closer than I intended to go to another vehicle, thought I'd better get out and check and sure enough, a very slight mark on the front bumper of
the other car and a smaller mark on my back bumper (you can imagine how slight when I wasn't even sure the two cars had touched) so I went looking
for the owner, took a while to track them down as I didn't know who owned it, owner went balistic before they even saw what the damage was, I got a
quote from one of those blokes who comes and fixes small marks $150 he comes to you and I have seen his work before, can't even pick it from the
original areas. Not good enough for this jerk, wants it done in a "real panelshop". a cash deal with the panel shop and I'm $400 lighter in the
vwallet, considerably more if it went through the books. Made me realise why others hit and run.
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!
|
|
|
h
A.k.a.: Towely BuMpEr KING! ILLegal ALIEN on a roadtrip
Scirocco Rare
fractals - an ever changing lifestyle
Posts: 7671
Threads: 375
Registered: February 3rd, 2005
Member Is Offline
Location: noosa hillbilly 'yee har'
Theme: XMBX Pro Green
Mood: A T3 is not a Kombi - stop waving at me
|
| posted on April 21st, 2009 at 11:14 PM |
|
|
| Quote: | Originally
posted by 66deluxe
C: it always gets flyers for gay shit that a man don't need placed under the wiper, like free beauty treatments and shit like that.
Damo.
|
mate theres a reason for that..
maybe they know you subscribe to manline monthly or some s#it like that n they want to offer you more services
not that theres anything wrong with that.. 
|
|
|
colonel mustard
Son of Jim - Creator of Good
Posts: 2829
Threads: 51
Registered: February 27th, 2009
Member Is Offline
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Black
|
| posted on April 22nd, 2009 at 08:29 AM |
|
|
| Quote: | Originally
posted by 66deluxe
And no i aint driving a magna, i hate mitsubishi.
|
Same. but i would rather not have to care about it getting smashed.
|
|
|
T-34
A.k.a.: Mick
Officially Full-On Dubber
Posts: 234
Threads: 35
Registered: February 11th, 2004
Member Is Offline
Location: Adelaide
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
|
| posted on April 22nd, 2009 at 09:03 AM |
|
|
| Quote: | Originally
posted by Phil74Camper
It happens with restored cars too. I rebuilt my Kombi camper from a bare shell in 2002-03, and it was finished and glowing less than a week before
someone opened their door into it at the local shopping centre. A big crease on the pristine right rear panel.
|
I restored a mini once - had same thing happen - someone reversed down side of car denting the rear quarter. Nowdays I rarely let my restored cars out
of my site and never park in car parks.
This is my daily driver, not too bothered if someone opens a door onto it - chances are their car will come off worse 
Also very good for those people who feel like pulling out in front of you or lane changing and cutting you up - people don't seem to take the chance
any more
|
|
|
newoldmanx
A.k.a.: Billy
Wolfsburg Wizard
Posts: 468
Threads: 52
Registered: August 6th, 2006
Member Is Offline
Location: fiji islands/sunny coast QLD
Theme: UltimaBB Pro Blue ( Default )
Mood: stylin
|
| posted on April 22nd, 2009 at 01:13 PM |
|
|
| Quote: | Newold manx, is
that engine still going good?
|
good to hear you got in contact with them Damo.
good? it's sweet as mate, and still not a sign of a drip!!or even a weap for that matter.
its just a car for f*%k sake
|
|
|
