"deekster_caddy" (deekster_caddy)
10/14/2014 at 18:23 • Filed to: 100K, Save the wagons, wagon
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"deekster_caddy" (deekster_caddy)
10/14/2014 at 18:23 • Filed to: 100K, Save the wagons, wagon | 7
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Passed Go! Who do we collect $200 from?
Review: Passat Wagon is awesome. 2008, bought it new, many trips, very little time in shop, trustworthy. 2.0 Turbo 6spd manual is very fun to drive.
Also, my wife rocks because she knew enough to grab this pic for me!
jkm7680
> deekster_caddy
10/14/2014 at 18:24 |
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Awesome! Please give us a 100k photodump of the car!
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deekster_caddy
> jkm7680
10/14/2014 at 18:25 |
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Will do. Been super busy, will try to put something together this weekend.
Cé hé sin
> deekster_caddy
10/14/2014 at 18:30 |
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100,000 miles? Well, it's a start I suppose.
Come back when you get to the first million!
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> deekster_caddy
10/14/2014 at 18:31 |
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You don't pass go, you get to an invalid's bed, because your car has tuberculosis.
(Sorry, had to riff on the giant CONSUMPTION with blank and seemingly disconnected mpg gauge below.)
Sir Halffast
> deekster_caddy
10/14/2014 at 18:36 |
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Um, in the form of a discount on the timing belt replacement?
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deekster_caddy
> Cé hé sin
10/14/2014 at 18:38 |
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pah this'll never make it that far. New england winters are harsh. Will see though, I expect to be able to teach my oldest daughter to drive a stick before she gets her license in 7 years.
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deekster_caddy
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
10/14/2014 at 18:39 |
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Oh I'm pretty sure that's the 'instant' mpg when you aren't moving... that's also the reading while decelerating!
Big Bubba Ray
> deekster_caddy
10/14/2014 at 18:40 |
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Your tank is empty. And congrats on 100,000!
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deekster_caddy
> Sir Halffast
10/14/2014 at 18:40 |
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Oh yeah. :( I'll have to look that one up and see if I do it or hand it to the VW dealer.
PS9
> deekster_caddy
10/14/2014 at 18:43 |
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Passed Go! Who do we collect $200 from?
Not how it works. Eventually, you have to go to these guys in blue jump suits and lifts in their garages. Now that you've passed 100k, they get to collect $200 from you.
vdub_nut: scooter snob
> deekster_caddy
10/14/2014 at 18:57 |
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I, too, had a stick VW with 100k+ that lived in NE for a few winters. Hola senor oxidation. Would have loved to put a million on it, but alas, it was costing me a semesters worth of groceries every October to keep it legal (PA inspections are apparently hellacious compared even to the other states that do them).
505Turbeaux
> deekster_caddy
10/14/2014 at 18:58 |
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you passed something, and it is more like - Stop and look at my myriad electrical problems! :)
Just kidding, I love seeing these things be reliable. VW broke my heart for a while there
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deekster_caddy
> PS9
10/14/2014 at 19:10 |
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Dammit!
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deekster_caddy
> 505Turbeaux
10/14/2014 at 19:14 |
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I was a little worried when we bought it and within the first year had the BCM crap out resulting in stupid power tailgate issues, but other than that and the weird intake manifold flapper thing (which was covered under an extended service bulletin for free at 90K, well out of the 3/36 warranty!) it's needed rear pads and new tires and that's it! Still on the original front pads too.
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deekster_caddy
> vdub_nut: scooter snob
10/14/2014 at 19:17 |
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For now it's showing no major signs of oxidation but I know that'll chamge.
Vicente Esteve
> deekster_caddy
10/14/2014 at 21:19 |
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Manual, Turbo Volkswagen wagon?
You sir win the person of the day.
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deekster_caddy
> Vicente Esteve
10/14/2014 at 21:39 |
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Thanks! I love driving it, but it's actually my wife's DD. She wanted a wagon, I wanted her to want THIS wagon. She didn't know how to drive a stick... I said "I'll teach you, it's easy." She learned well, and loves it! The great thing about the manual is the extra 3 MPG that the auto doesn't get, and the brakes and tires last so much longer than others. I read most people need to replace the rear pads at 25-30K. We had to do ours at 55K and are still on the original front brakes. And our daily commutes are all stop and go!
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Vicente Esteve
> deekster_caddy
10/14/2014 at 21:43 |
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Thats just good news all around! I like the looks of the blue and red dials a lot as well! I am teaching my girlfriend to drive stick currently in me Golf
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deekster_caddy
> Vicente Esteve
10/14/2014 at 21:58 |
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VW is so damn easy to shift! I've driven plenty of manuals, some that you needed to lift weights to push the clutch in and move the shifter, some that required 4 foot long arms (the F600 ramp/tow truck comes to mind), the old 3 on the tree... and my '54 MG. The trick with the MG is that you CANNOT shift quickly or it will scold you with a grind. You also can't shift into first without rev-matching or being close to a complete stop (but not all the way stopped). I wanted her to learn stick so she could drive the MG someday.
twochevrons
> deekster_caddy
10/14/2014 at 22:15 |
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Ah, the joys of old gearboxes. I don't know what the T-types are like, but I really like the shift feel of my MGA's gearbox – the gear lever is nice and stubby, and although it does indeed require a somewhat odd combination of assertiveness and delicate persuasion, it has a wonderful 'rifle-bolt' precision feel to it – far more so than any other car that I've driven.
I'm trying to persuade my wife to learn how to drive it. The only other manual cars I have access to are my VW Scirocco, and my father-in-law's Vanagon, which both have shifters so vague that changing gears is more just a matter of shoving the lever in the general direction of what you want, and just going with whatever gear it decides it gives you. In light of that, I think that the MG would actually be a good choice – it has one of the nicest clutches I've used, and the first car that I ever drove (a very well-used Triumph 2500) wasn't all that much better in the gearbox department.
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Vicente Esteve
> deekster_caddy
10/14/2014 at 22:23 |
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Holy crap, and I thought driving stick on a 60s bug was a bit of a chore! (Driven 2). But honestly, when you drive much older cars, it takes you back in time
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deekster_caddy
> Vicente Esteve
10/14/2014 at 22:31 |
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Honestly the F600 was the biggest challenge. The motor didn't have quite enough torque to perform tow truck duty, it was '74 or so with a tired gas V8, so with anything full size on the ramp bed you were forced to work the two-speed rear axle into your shift pattern. There was a big knob on the shifter to move the rearend from High to Low. It was L1, L2, H1, L3, H2, and if you had enough speed you could stick with H3 and H4 at that point... Talk about a chore! I hit the wrong gear way too often in that rig, but I eventually got it right.
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Vicente Esteve
> deekster_caddy
10/14/2014 at 22:36 |
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In the bugs, I first had to get used to the pattern because it is inclined ad diagonal. I know, it isn't nearly as difficult, but when Mexican taxi drivers are honking you to get out you find its a bit harder.
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deekster_caddy
> Vicente Esteve
10/14/2014 at 22:40 |
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Yeah I knew a guy with the old beetle and I never got a chance to drive it. It was the kind with the not-quite a clutch pedal thing that I still don't understand. He didn't like to let anyone else drive it, I guess I can understand that. And it's always harder when they are honking at you!
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Vicente Esteve
> deekster_caddy
10/14/2014 at 22:56 |
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Oh man, they JUST made a post about it today. It was the auto-easy or something like that! Just no.