Monday, April 12, 2004
The Bug - bugged
It wasn't a real good weekend for my Beetle. I took a trip up to Toronto and one of the projects there was to have my car looked after. The pax side door has been giving me some trouble. I made an appointment 300 miles away because my dealer, Thelen Motors, sucks big time. I thought it was probably a plug had come loose. About 2 years ago, I had to get the pax side of the car repainted. Some nitwit decided to practice his writing skills on the side of my car. The body shop I used (which was on the insurance company's good list) turned out to know nothing about VWs. The first weekend I had it after the paint the job, the passenger side door opened while I was driving down the road! So I figured that among other things, they didn't fasten the plug correctly after reinstalling the door. It turns out they broke the wiring harness. The Toronto dealer did the best they could to fix it, but they said to do it right, I'd have to replace the door wiring harness - $600 parts alone!!!
On the way up on Highway 402, some trucker in front of me decided to take a nap and wandered off the road onto the shoulder -- about three times. One of the Rocks he kicked up hit right in the middle of the windshield and put a crack in it. Not just a chip, but a through and through crack. It's only about 1/2" wide now, so I'll see what happens. I'll have to get it replaced sooner or later.
I don't know why I'm having so many little niggling problems with my poor beetle. It'd be different if I was running into stuff or not putting in oil or letting the tires go flat. I check the oil, water and tires usually once a week. I wash her and drive relatively carefully. Poor thing, she's been vandalized and then some body-shop butchers (Saginaw Auto Collision Inc.) screwed her up. A big chunk of plastic found its way into the treads of a tire and made it flat, the local VW dealer is less than clueless. Now some somnolent trucker puts a hole in the windshield.
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