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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Emerald Isle, NC
Posts: 503
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Beware of the electrics in those early '80s VWs.
My ex father in law had a gen1 Scirocco. Left him stranded several times. He bought it new and the problems started less than a year in. He replaced it with an Audi 80.
I had an '81 Golf GTI in the mid '90s. It had a battery killing short in it I could never find. I'm an electrician by trade. I ended up keeping a dead battery under the hood, and a live one behind the drivers seat with a set of jumper cables.
It was a neat car around town. Every time I drove it on the Autobahn something broke. I wish I could have owned it when it was new.
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