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No...don't say the 87 Golf word. It's finally gone (thank god). When I bought it 4 years previously it was near perfect....then...
1. In 3 days bird do went through 3 layers of fresh polymer from an orange bottle "once a year car polish" to the primer underneath.
2. Door dinged twice by Yuppie (ughum....um) lady in a shopping hurry. -once arriving-once leaving. Big dents.
3. Window smashed cheap radio gone on busy street daytime.
4. Hit on the bay bridge by semi who misjudged his distance or just plain didn't like small cars.
5. Fuel pump relay went out. After shop replaced both pumps for $500 and several inoportune stalls later I found the problem. Grr.
6. Window smashed cheap radio gone in nice neighborhood. This time they mangled to trim and shorted out much of the dashboard (practice makes perfect).
7. Heater core popped like a big hot water balloon inside the cab. It had had a cooling problem that didn't want to be fixed for a long time, and then I found out why.
It barely passed smog and a tune up and cat later still didn't change it although the compression was good. Playing with the mixture didn't change the duty cycle so it probably had a bad computer as well-and the thing that made the computer go bad.
Its gone! It's finally gone!!
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