"That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms" (thatbastardkurtis5)
03/23/2019 at 19:10 • Filed to: None
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"That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms" (thatbastardkurtis5)
03/23/2019 at 19:10 • Filed to: None | 0
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A friend of mine needed a car, I have an excess of cars, and so now I’m one Volkswagen Jetta less.
Overall I’d say my Mk4 experience was a positive one. I got the car in October, it owed me about $1200 and I got $1100 for it today. So basically it cost me $100 to use the car for 5 months, which seems like a win to me.
The only thing that sucked about this was that the car needed a new thermostat, and my buddy asked me to do it as part of the deal (originally we agreed on $1000, he offered me $100 to do the job and I already had the parts so what the hell?). It was not a fun job, though the actual thermostat part of it took 5 minutes. Taking the alternator off so I could get at the thermostat , that took an hour and a half.
So where does that leave me? Well, I finally got the Tahoe back from my mechanic just in time for my wife’s Escalade to lose a rear brake line, so that is getting towed to him tomorrow for the brakes and to fix a highway-speed vibration. It also needs a fuel tank vent solenoid and an injector, but I’m going to do those myself...then it’ll need to get inspected since it was due at the end of February.
Oh, also I’ll need to drive the VehiCROSS to work on Monday and it still has an exhaust that sounds like its just straight pipes. I picked up a new muffler and some flexible repair pipe to see if I can make it usable, but I’m not super hopeful.
LongbowMkII
> That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
03/23/2019 at 19:55 |
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Straight piped 3.5V6? What’s wrong with that?
EngineerWithTools
> That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
03/23/2019 at 20:12 |
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I’ve always thought the Mk4 was a very handsome car. Clean ones are extremely rare now, at least here.
Glad it served you well. Here’s to a useful future!
facw
> EngineerWithTools
03/23/2019 at 22:59 |
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One I my favorites, it’s a very clean design. They were quite proud of the C-p illar, and they should be. Pity about it being an early 2000s VW.
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That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
> LongbowMkII
03/24/2019 at 23:03 |
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It woke my 3 year old out of a stone dead sleep the last time I drove it to work, and I leave pretty early.
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That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms
> EngineerWithTools
03/24/2019 at 23:03 |
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It was a good little car, hopefully my friend gets good use out of it.