Re: (comments re:Need help - Springs)

["Douglas B. Kuhn, Jr." <ijcdougk@earthlink.net>]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: CYC <the_nixter@yahoo.com>
To: <jettaglx@igtc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 12:03 AM
Subject: (comments re:Need help - Springs)


> 
> So what is wrong with rice?....Oh I get it...a slang
> term (derogatory at that) about being an un
> trustworthy place of business.   
> 
> Umm...since this is a forum for jetta imformation, why
> can't we keep on the topic and use vw-speak?  Why
> bring in racial terms that insult those that might
> have some type of asian roots?  You being an asian,
> should understand that more than anyone.  (then again,
> maybe with an email like "wangster", I should not be
> surprised.)
> 
> I can not recall a time when I have seen anyone using
> "spic", "wop", "kraut", "nigger" (and I am sure that
> everyone has their own terms) in describing a problem.
>  Why not?   Besides being not too politically correct,
> it is rude and ignorant.  
> 
> As jetta/vr6/vw enthusiasts, this place is intended to
> make people feel comfortable, not segragated.  I am
> sure we all get our dose in the "real" world.  
> 
> Although this might be a term you "throw" around
> loosely in your part of the country and in your
> crowds, have the sensitivity to realize that the web
> reaches all over.  Let's be more professional.  
> 
> You seem to be more concerned with using curse words
> than offending ethnic groups.  You cannot even bring
> yourself to type the word "fuck", you had to use an
> (*).  But had no problem with "those goddamn
> RICEBOYS".
> 
> Promote your ethnicity, do not degrade it.  
> 
> One final note, it seems to me that the garage isn't
> the one that will "mess things up".  Blame yourself
> for being careless to whom you leave your car with (if
> it is really your "pride and joy"), or blame your
> father for bringing it in on the first place. 
> Afterall, the garage didn't come to your house, your
> car went to them for "help"
> 
> Well, that is my commentary, LET THE FLAMES BEGIN..
> 
> 
> the nixter
> 97 Tornado Red GLX
> 
> --- Eric Wang <wangstervr6@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> >      I haven't been at home for two months now and
> > my dad's been screwing 
> > around with my car.  He recently took it to a shop
> > in Queens, NY called 
> > "RPM" or something like that (anyone from NY ever
> > hear of it?).  From what 
> > he told me, it sounds like the place is total RICE!
> > 
> >      But anyway, the reason he took it there was
> > because there has been this 
> > annoying creaking sound coming from my Eibachs ever
> > since I got them 
> > installed over a year ago (they creak when I turn
> > the wheel @ low speeds).  
> > I've written to this list before about it, and
> > people said it wasn't the 
> > springs, and suggested spraying the crap out of the 
> > suspension 
> > (particularly the A-arms) with WD-40.  I did this,
> > and it seemed to work, 
> > but then my dad still claimed to notice the sound. 
> > So he took the car to 
> > RPM, and they claimed to have diagnosed the problem 
> > as originating from a 
> > lack of "perches" on the front springs, which they
> > claimed were lost when 
> > some other idiots installed the Eibachs.
> > 
> >      Can anyone tell me about this diagnosis?  I
> > don't remember ever seeing 
> > "perches" for the springs on all the suspension
> > diagrams I've ever looked at 
> > (which is not many).
> > 
> >      Please help, before those goddamn RICEBOYS f*ck
> > up my car!!!!
> > 
> > Eric Wang
> > 1994 Black Vento VR6 / aftermarket Trek edition --
> > Eibach Pro-Kit, Bilstein 
> > Sport shocks and struts, Remus cat-back exhaust,
> > Autotech Q-Chip, K&N 
> > drop-in filter, Mintex Redbox pads, BBS RZ-II, 1998
> > Green Trek 930
> > http://www.princeton.edu/~ericwang
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
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