Re: It had to happen Vol. II

["George Turner, Jr." <george@dxnet.com>]

the new jetta iv will be nice, BUT the engine will not be as good as the vr6.  the service guy at my friendly vw dealer told me that the vr6 engine was far superior yet they were changing to thr v5 gas gas economy reasons....    
geo
- -----Original Message-----
From: David Petke <dpgoofy@ix.netcom.com>
To: jettaglx@igtc.COM <jettaglx@igtc.COM>
Date: Tuesday, May 26, 1998 3:10 PM
Subject: It had to happen Vol. II


> The insurance guy called me today.  It's up to $10K damage.  The insurance
>co. authorized the body shop to saw the hood open to see how much
>internal/hidden damage there is.  The magic number is $16K before they
>total the car.  If it even gets to 12 or 13, I'm going to scream bloody
>murder.  I'll talk about how the engine has the 10yr/100K mi. warranty on
>it, and with only 8K mi. on the engine, that's a long time for things to go
>wrong.  
> I wonder if they will buy the fact that VW might not honor the warranty
>beacuse it's been hit, and I'm sure the insurance company doesn't want to
>hear from me every time I hear a squeak, rattle, or buzz.
> If it does get totalled, anyone know when the Jetta IV hits out shores?
>If it's this fall, a new 5-valve V-5 GLX might be quite nice.
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