RE: GLX woes (long)

["Squier, Craig" <craig_squier@arvin.com>]

If I were you, I would NOT renew the lease...
Even if they give you the factory 10/100 warranty on the new motor,
there WILL be an effect later in the car's life.

Cool sealing story.
I always brush my fat buns on the door seal getting into and out of the 
buckets and I have scuffed the seal quite a bit, i doubt mine would seal as
well...

Had a similar thing happen when I banzaied my A1 GLI into 24" deep
water a long time ago....I got through it with inertia, but the
car sputtered for a fe minutes after that...  ;)

You need to put a Jolly Roger sticker in the window now and christen the
car....
;)

Later
-cab
> ----------
> From: 	Benjamin W. Stein[SMTP:bstein@medill.net]
> Reply To: 	jettaglx@igtc.com
> Sent: 	Friday, July 09, 1999 11:04 AM
> To: 	jettaglx@igtc.com
> Subject: 	Re: GLX woes (long)
> 
> Craig,
> 
> The car is 100% stock, not a thing has been done to it.
> 
> On the water damage on the interior, that was perhaps the most amazing
> thing,
> the car stayed completely sealed.  We never got out and the water never
> got
> in.
> 
> Ben
> 
> "Squier, Craig" wrote:
> 
> > Just an odd question....
> > Do you have a modified intake system? Or are you using the
> > factory one?
> > Did you have water damage inside the car itself??
> > I know the carpeting will probably smell like dead fish for a while...
> > You should have you ins. co. spring for a professional detailing and
> > interior/carpeting scrub/wash/shampoo to get it clean and fresh...
> >
> > Good luck with it, at least they are covering most of it.....
> > just a wondering....
> > -Cab
> >
> > > ----------
> > > From:         Benjamin W. Stein[SMTP:bstein@medill.net]
> > > Reply To:     jettaglx@igtc.com
> > > Sent:         Thursday, July 08, 1999 10:30 PM
> > > To:   jettaglx@igtc.com
> > > Subject:      GLX woes (long)
> > >
> > > About three weeks ago on my way home from a Cubs game (when they were
> > > still able to play) I was driving my '97 glx in the midst of a
> > > torrential downpour.  I had just commented to my brother that the car
> > > really handles foul weather well.  We turned onto a street with an
> > > underpass and there was some water in the underpass, but it didn't
> look
> > > like all that much so I drove on.  Needless to say it was more water
> > > than it looked like, probably 18" or two feet.  The car made it about
> > > two thirds of the way through and then died.  The rain kept falling
> and
> > > the water kept rising eventually the water made it to about three
> inches
> > > below the door handles, and then stopped rising on the car.  After the
> > > first as*hole in an SUV drove past we realized it stopped rising
> because
> > > the car started floating.  Eventually we got towed out.  The car won't
> > > start, so we push it to the side of the road.  We then notice that all
> > > the idiots in the SUVs who came roaring past us hit the submerged
> curb.
> > > Four of them were by the side of the road changing their right front
> > > tires.
> > >
> > > About four hours later we went back and tried starting the car again.
> > > Eventually it kicks over, sounds like an inboard motor on a boat, and
> > > spits our literally gallons of water from the exhaust system.  But now
> > > the car has a ticking sound to it.  I take it to my mechanic, who
> > > listens to it and basically says, "you're screwed call your insurance
> > > company."  I do, they go look at it tell my mechanic to do what he
> needs
> > > to fix it, they'll cover it (thank god).  He takes the engine apart,
> > > finds the connecting rod on the number four piston is bent, "like a
> > > pretzel", there is about a 15 degree bend in the connecting rod.  For
> > > those of you that have not seen a connecting rod for a vr6, it is
> about
> > > four or five inches long, three inches across and an inch thick, one
> > > hell of a big piece of metal.  Turns out that water went in through
> the
> > > air intake and was sucked into the cylinders, water doesn't compress
> > > like air and presto, trashed engine.  The bent connecting rod drove
> the
> > > piston into the cylinder wall digging a trough somewhere between 1/8"
> > > and 1/4".
> > >
> > > They call the insurance company back who tells them to go ahead and
> fix
> > > the engine.  The total bill is $3700.  The bad news now is that three
> > > weeks after this happened they just got the piston today, evidently it
> > > came from Stuttgart.
> > >
> > > I just want my car back.
> > >
> > > Ben
> > >
>