Arrrggh!!! Jetta!!!

[Rednut]

the freakin gearbox fell out between morriset and toronto?! no alarm!

any of you newy lads got a car-trailer? ayden.. your wheels are in the boot too i think.

if anyone can help out tonight.. my number is 0407017977

[worm]

The saga continues...

[Rednut]

MOLLINS TO THE RESCUE

were gonna go check it out in the morn.

if it gets flogged tonight.. i will die.

[evorobin]

What was I saying about classic car ownership.............................

[Rednut]

i dunno but i wish the jetta was insured(or at least have the money to get it insured)?!

[Golf Loon]

Aaaaargggghhh. That car is cursed man.

Spoke to your bro about what happened. Sounds more like a gear linkage issue to me. The gearbox on the floor sounds more dramatic tho.

He said it wouldn`t have been so bad if it wasn`t sheeting down with rain.

Hoorah for Mollins, let us know what you find in the morn.

[Golf Loon]

See if mollins has some gear linkages in his garage to take with you.
And a Rope I reckon.

[Rednut]

yep. we've already organised it. 9am tomorrow. he said he would bring some spare parts

[Golfwise]

If its only the linkages why not put in one gear perferably 3rd and drive it home.
Then trade it in on something decent.

[Golf Loon]

If its only the linkages why not put in one gear perferably 3rd and drive it home.
Then trade it in on something decent.

I`d jam it in a gear and get it home. Its cursed. I reckon someone died in that car.

[worm]

lol..... i hope this car is forever on this forum. Would be a shame to send it to the tip.

[syncro]

Exorcism required

[Rednut]

The Boys Have Done It!!!!

ok.. i just grabbed my first beer.. ready to write this novel.

(NOTE: times arent accurate, just trying to keep it interesting..)

Tuesday - The call from the Loon to say the rego sticker has arrived and the girl is ready to have final check over.

Thursday - The Loon is ready to drop her to my bro to get back up here to Newy.

Friday - 6:30ish pm - My bro calls, "im at the twin servo's... see you in about
30-60mins. (im excited by this time)

6:50ish pm - Bro calls again "the gearbox **** itself, im stuck on the freeway between the morriset and toronto exits..it wont hold any gears..and it aint movin.." (HOLY MOTHER OF %#$%#^)

6:55ish pm - stress sets in. I start calling friends/family trying to figure out what the **** im gonna do. I have a relo that has a car trailer(used to race rally cars..now he just builds em) so i figured, if i can get someone with a strong enough car.. we can tow her..

7:30ish pm - got onto Loony and got mollins number. Loony said "THAT BLOODY CURSED THING! ok ok,hit mollins up, hes close and would be probably the best person to help you out."

7:40ish pm - phone mollins.. (mind you.. never spoke to the lad, other than over the internet) "dude, i need a massive solid" "no worries, see you at 9am tomorrow"
Saturday 9ish am. - still stressin my nut out.. (the whole time from when my bro called, i was peaking that someone would cruise past.. see it was unmanned and either hotwire it.. or at least vandalise it) Mollins and gldgti rock up, and we make our way up the freeway.

10ish am - We turn of the morriset exit and swing back and head towards newy.(im still peaking by this time cause theres no sign of it) Finally! i see her..parked on the side of the freeway.. nothing broken.. no sign of break-in attempts etc etc. The boys inspect the car and work out that one of the CV joints has **** itself.. the driveshaft was just spinning around without the cv joint spinning with it.

11ish - We come to the conclusion that we need to get her away from the freeway to replace it. We call Ben Durie in Teralba and arrange to pickup a CV joint on the way back to newy. I call all the people i know that would have a car strong enough to town her back to Ben or Newy.. NO LUCK!. I bit the bullet and decided to go with the Tow truck idea.

11:30ish - We swing past Ben and catch him as he is closing up. $100 later.. we're up a brand Spanker CV Joint(the boys measured the broken one and the new one with a piece of string{true aussie style} and headed back to newy.

12ish - We headed to Mollins house to ring around for tow trucks as the one in toronto was gonna cost $100 just to get it to Teralba(its like.. 10kms.. and we couldnt use them anyway because their tow truck had just lost its clutch..).

1ish - Mollins rang around and decided on Fenwicks for $125. They came within 30mins and picked up the keys. Drove out to get her and brought her back.. all within the time it took the boys to replace the handbrake cable in gldgti's golf and replace the wheels with the new(used) mk2gti ones{looks alot better than the white ones he had on there } (was only an hour or 2 at most)

3ish - Mollins greased up the new CV joint whilst gldgti removed the wheel to get to the broken one. The lads then got hard into it.. all greasy and loving it. I was inspecting the engine whilst the boys were under the car, removing the busted CV and all of a sudden Mollins goes nuts and does a huge commando roll out from under the car.. 1 second later.. a huge ballbarring from the old CV comes rolling out after him.. then some oily grease.. and then another ballbarring. All six of em ended up falling out.. along with the busted cv joint and washers.. it looked like it'd been through a garbage disposal or worse. After about 10mins of trying to get a massive bolt/nut from the busted cv jointoff the driveshaft.. Mollins remember he had a spare. They got it all on, greased up the whole driveshaft and other cv joint that was still lookin ok and got it back into the right spot. They got the wheel back on. Then we decided to have a feed before trying her out.

4ish - We head outside, mollins takes the reigns and jumps in. hey-presto! THEY'D DONE IT!
She moves on her own!! we go for a quick spin around the block. She chugged a fair bit but we realised its cause she was so cold. gldgti jumped in and drove her home with me in the passenger side playing with the stereo and my mp3 player(works a treat, cheers Loony ). The boys were pretty impressed with how good she went once warm but once warm..shes great. She still idles at below 1000revs.. will have to do somem bout that.. but yeh.. SHE GOES!!!!

(loony, the stereo,speakers,frontbumper,central locking,lights all work! cheers again!! Under the bonnet looks tidy as too! yay for cable ties. )

I totally recommend these lads for any repairs in the newcastle area. Great Jobs lads, THE MILKYBARS ARE ON ME!

Well, thats all folks, im gonna go have some beverages and forget this ever happened.

[Golf Loon]

Nice. Glad it had a happy ending. At least it was nothing I touched that broke. Glad you got her back unscathed. Lets believe the curse is lifted

[Golf Loon]

And a big cheers to Mollins and GLDGTI for helping a fellow watercooler.

Glad you like the Jetta Rednut.