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The Stick
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Someplace Safe?
Posts: 17,328
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For a second there thought that was a picture of a brown felt derby of some sort.
My worst vehicle was the 05 VW Passat. It was literally a pain in the butt to drive. Was a shame because otherwise it was a nice car and was planning to put euro springs on it. Was told that would fix it getting dangerously unstable above 90 mph.
Amazingly none of my vehicles ever actually left me stranded on the road.
I left the 78 GMC Jimmy stranded once. But that was because the police took me to jail for trying to use the sloped up end of a guard rail to put it on two wheels like you see those stunt drivers do. They claimed my blood alcohol was too high, but I think they were just jealous because they didn't think to try to use those new sloped up ramp looking guard rail ends for that.
The Range Rover died driving down the road a couple of times, but after a few minutes started right back up and drove on like nothing ever happened. It doing that is why I got the Cayenne. Just did not instill much confidence dying then running again for no apparent reason.
The station wagon actually drove home even after the engine fire. It would start and run at 2000 rpm but the accelerator didn't work. Had to drop it neutral to stop, and almost do neutral slams to get going again, but it made it. Fixed the throttle linkage with a coat hanger until I could get the parts for it.
The Satellite lost a radiator hose, but was able to patch it by tying a red shop rag around it, and we drank all the beer and peed in the radiator to make it home. We couldn't just pour the beer in the radiator, that would have been wasteful.
The 944 Turbo S lost a head gasket, but it went slowly and I was able to keep adding water and make it to the shop without it getting hot. Just made a little smoke under the hood. The gasket wasn't blown out from being too lean or too much boost, it was just corroded away and gone from age.
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Richard aka "The Stick"
06 Cayenne S Titanium Edition
Last edited by RKDinOKC; 07-26-2016 at 03:21 PM..
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