[mob my audi]

I wanna hear em.
Heres an alright story- My buddy was parked at school without his pass. He drives Loper's old Mk3 GTI VR6, and the rear emblem says "ABT" and the grill says Kamei the rest is shaved-
The parking guy wrote up a parking ticket for him, and wrote "Make.... ABT, Model.....Kamei"
I laughed out loud when I heard that one!

 

[landrumdh]

Re: Your funniest VW related story- (drive79rabbit)

I was rearended on my way to work one day in my old 86 Jetta.
Stopped to collect info an everything then headed onto work had body damage but only to the trunk it ran ok (well until the battery died, another story for another time). Now he hit the trunk right about where the Volks. name was.
Went to work parked my car. Drove home and it died there basically.
About three days later I was at work and putting a large monitor into a customers car and saw the volkswage badge laying in the middle of the parking lot off of my old Jetta!! i thought that was pretty cool. It fits perfectly in the dent and looked exactly like it used to.
Still have it laying around in my room.

 

[Aw614]

Re: Your funniest VW related story- (Juicejetta3)

I traced a picture of a Scirocco at school on the computer and some kid thought it was a Gti instead. They knew what a Corrado was though.
Yesteryday I see kids playing basketball so I decide to do a 3 point turn in my nonpowerstreering Scirocco which I usually I can do okay, but this time kids from school were watching me and I stall and I am getting laughed at. Plus the loud noise of it makes people stare at me. I was also wearing sandels too.
So Sandels = no powersteering = manual tranny = not a good way to drive

 

[VAG-MAN]

Re: Your funniest VW related story- (drive79rabbit)

Not me and not in a VW but here goes...this may sound really phony but its really true!
Before I was even around my mom and dad bought a Subaru 4dr sedan and this was their first new car as a couple.
Anyways, not too long (2wks I think...) after they'd bought it, my dad had driven it to the office in downtown Montreal (where we used to live) and, so it happend there was a construction site next door.
At one point during the day, by dad was looking out his window towards the site next door, which in between the 2 buildings was the staff parking lot. Next thing he knew, this huge crane with a wrecking ball came plowing over the chain link fences into the lparking lot!
Basically the controls for the crane broke and the operator couldn't stop it, next thing he knew...the crane COMPLETELY FLATTENED my dads car and another behind it!!!
My dad was PISSED OFF (to put it politely) and when he told my mom she laughed and didn't believe him. The whole thing was on the evening news later and this proved it.
But that isn't even the best part!!! When my dad's car was crushed, it was also pushed into a light pole in the parking lot. Shortly after this, THE CITY OF MONTREAL SENT HIM THE BILL FOR IT!!! I don't think I have to say he refused to pay for it.
It sounds like a cartoon or somethin' but I SWEAR its true!

 

[Dubstein]

Re: Your funniest VW related story- (VAG-MAN)

I slightly cut off a guy in a brand new bimmer. He starts following me and I get prepared for the confrontation as I pull into a supermarket parking lot. Instead, he says excitedly "BORA??? WHAT'S A BORA?" The guy was sick about my car! I smiled the rest of the way home.

 

[53Bicycles]

Re: Your funniest VW related story- (drive79rabbit)

Funny..and sort of pathetic
The previous owner of my quantum syncro told me how he was changing the spark plugs and had to run back to NAPA a second time to get another "extra"
He also had "reset" the OXS light by putting a piece of black tape over the light.
Needless to say he didn't know vw's. i bought the car for $350 and two years later it's still running

 

[scirocco192]

Re: Your funniest VW related story- (drive79rabbit)

I was installing some speakers in the rear of my scirocco one day around noon. It was raining that day so I had the hatch cover removed and was in the hatch with it lowered so i would not get wet from the rain. Well, the mail lady came down my drive way and honked her horn because something had to be signed. Thinking of the comical situation I was in I waited for her to honk the horn a few more times then I opened the hatch, climed out and went to take care of the mail. So she was honking and all of a sudden the back hatch of this scirocco opened and a guy climbs out, it was pretty funny, she had a look of confusion on her face.

 

[Zwoobah]

Re: Your funniest VW related story- (scirocco192)

My dad owned a squareback shortly after he and my mom met. They were heading to Nantucket for the weekend, to meet my dad's parents. Half way there the engine blew up, they missed the boat and took the car to get fixed. After it was fixed, they quickly traded it in on a brand-new Fiat, to avoid any more used car problems, and the engine in the Fiat blew up after two weeks! It was in the shop for 2 months getting fixed, then they traded it for a turkey-shaped lemon yellow Saab, that ran pretty well, but had an early fuel-injection system that would spray liquid fuel all over the padding on the inside of the hood

. My mom also had a BMW 1600 at the time, with a VERY narrow wheelbase. She was driving on the mass pike, went under a bridge through a left-hand turn, and there was a car broken down on the inside left lane (no breakdown lane on the left). She had to swerve to avoid it, the car spun out, across 4 lanes of traffic, and ended up on it's driver side, facing the wrong way against the left-hand guardrail (btw, I know 3 people whose parents have also flipped BMW 2002s (same body as the 1600)). I guess you could say they had bad luck with cars for a few years

 

[mk2jetta]

Re: Your funniest VW related story- (Zwoobah)

nothing funny about vw's

 

[mob my audi]

Re: Your funniest VW related story- (Zwoobah)

BMW 2002s??/ MAN, thats crazy! Those things handle like indy cars! Sad to hear that though.. I love 2002s

 

[Aw614]

Re: Your funniest VW related story- (drive79rabbit)

Another story:
At a Mazada Dealer when we were looking for minivans to replace our deseased Eurovan the only car we had for a couple of days was the QUantum so at the dealer the sales person couldn't figure out what kind of car it was and couldn't pronounce it. If I was there instead of playing on the internet all day I would probably correct him buy saying if you know what a Passat is that is what it is in Europe, but VAG gave it another name

 

[FujiTekniques]

Re: Your funniest VW related story- (Aw614)

This summer I needed a good deal of suspension work done after not having enough money to gey my car aligned after lowering it

. Anyway, the rear fog was on, and, combined w/ the 'Vento' badge & the different front end, the owner of the shop walked over to me real quietly, looked around, leaned over and goes, "So uhh, who imported this for you?"

I had a hard time admitting it was an NA spec Jetta.

 

[G60syncro]

Re: Your funniest VW related story- (drive79rabbit)

Okay, so I'm driving to work on the Metropolitan "expressway" in Montreal (Avreage speed: 5mph)... I had my not-so-reliable-Jetta at the time. As I was moving along with the slow traffic, I was horrified to see my temperature skyrocketing at an alarming rate... I park over on the side... too late, the pressure had allready gone too high and it burst the coolant hose that goes to the head...
Tow truck comes along.. loads the car on the flatbed and takes me down the elevated Metropolitain and to a nerby garage... he charges me 65$ for the tow... Now I'm pissed off 'cause I look up at the overpass and I see exactly where I was stalled... I swear I could have spit in the garage's front yard from where I was!!! I basically paid 65$ to get my car taken down 30ft!!!!
I walk into the garage and ask the guy if he has a spare radiator hose or anything that could substitute... Anything, I did'nt care because that weekend I was going to swap the diesel for a turbo diesel... He tells me he does'nt know, he has to order the part and with VW's it could cost anywhere from 30 to 50$ plus the 50$/hour labor... Now I was REALLY pissed off, I could see this 20$ job turn into a 150$ ordeal!!! He was sure he had a desperate client on his hands... But I was thinking otherwise, I said screw it, I'm leaving this place...
On my way to work there was a VW dealer, since I was about 5min away, I gave it a shot... I drove through the back streets, keeping an eye on the temp... I managed to get to a few blocks from the place. I walked into the parts dept. asked the guy how much for the hose... 20$... Cool! can you lend me a pair of pliers with that, I'll be right back... I fixed the car, topped it off with water and drove back to the dealer to give him back his pliers...
I hate it when dumb garage owners think they are so smart when they take advantage of "ignorant" clients... I hate being taken for a ride (exept if it's in a nice car) and I hate over-paying for incompetent people working on my car!!!

 

[Boostin20v]

Re: Your funniest VW related story- (G60syncro)

I was parked in the Syracuse mall lot waiting for others to arrive at a gtg -- I was the only car parked in this section of the lot as the mall was not that full when all of a sudden a Crown Vic pulls up near by. An old guy(60s) and a little girl(about 6) get out of the car and come walking towards me. The old guy says "what kind of car is that?" and I replied "Its a Volkswagen GTI." To which the little girl goes "See I told you grandpa!".
That really put a smile on my face for the rest of the day
Stu

 

[Hostile]

Re: Your funniest VW related story- (drive79rabbit)

Not about a dub but...
Last summer I was working in DC and there was a construction company doing some major road work for the city just outside of our fenced-in parking lot. During the course of the summer the crane on the site was moving stuff OVER our parking lot and in a few instances some wet concrete had landed on people's cars. No one complained because no real damage had been done. Anyway...
One day I was out in the field in my gov't car when I got a call on my cell that something happened to my car. The secretary was sounding frantic and kept saying, 'They crushed your car!!!!!" I had visions of a steel i-beam laying over my crushed corolla.
I finished my business and hauled a$$ back up 295 and when i pulled into the parking lot I found about 10 construction workers clearing the remains of a wooden bridge off my car. My boss was taking pictures with polaroid. Apparently the crane was moving a wooden bridge from one location of the site to another and the shortest route was over our parking lot. The bridge slipped and landed on my car... The thing was, I had been in the car 2 minutes earlier before I had left in my gov't car...
The trunk and rear quarter panels were crushed but the car was still driveable. The real pisser was that their insurance company only gave me $3500 for my car... The car was a mint 1990 Corolla, was paid off and was like $10/month for insurance. Now I have a $350 a month car payment and pay $800/year for my current car...
I miss my Corolla...

 

[MyAudiGoFast]

Re: Your funniest VW related story- (drive79rabbit)

quote:[HR][/HR]I wanna hear em.
Heres an alright story- My buddy was parked at school without his pass. He drives Loper's old Mk3 GTI VR6, and the rear emblem says "ABT" and the grill says Kamei the rest is shaved-
The parking guy wrote up a parking ticket for him, and wrote "Make.... ABT, Model.....Kamei"
I laughed out loud when I heard that one![HR][/HR]​

..our parking guy john is the stupidest guy around, he is a total airhead. i hate that guy, he walks to every car in the lot and makes sure they have a pass, one day when the weather is nicer, we are going to park in the back corner just to make his lazy ass walk all the way out there to find our passes in the window http://****************.com/smile/emthup.gif
~Danny

 

[Mencius01]

Re: Your funniest VW related story- (Boostin20v)

quote:[HR][/HR]I was parked in the Syracuse mall lot waiting for others to arrive at a gtg -- I was the only car parked in this section of the lot as the mall was not that full when all of a sudden a Crown Vic pulls up near by. An old guy(60s) and a little girl(about 6) get out of the car and come walking towards me. The old guy says "what kind of car is that?" and I replied "Its a Volkswagen GTI." To which the little girl goes "See I told you grandpa!".
That really put a smile on my face for the rest of the day
Stu[HR][/HR]​

That's a really cute story ... awwwwwww ....

 

[RoccoRacer]

Re: Your funniest VW related story- (Mencius01)

here's one of my most embarassing moments:
I had rear-ended someone a few weeks prior (the guy was pissed...he just got his carolla back from the body shop and I hit him...I thought it was kinda funny, until I looked at my car

), so the driver side headlights on my scirocco were exposed (no outer glass, but the filaments still worked) so I was parked and a bunch of my friends were parked outside. It was dark and raining a little, so of course I had my headlights on. Being the "cool" guy that I am, I reved the engine up to about 5,000 rpms and POP! . . . I'm thinking "WTF?!" and my friends were like "haha, Ben, your headlight just exploded!" Then I drove around without a driver side headlight assembly and grille for a few weeks.

 

[matt007]

Re: Your funniest VW related story

"See I told you Grampa!"
That's so cute!

 

[vwfan]

Re: Your funniest VW related story (matt007)

When I was in high school, my parents bought a new 71 Super Beetle (I know, I
am an old fart!). I was driving it home one Sunday evening during a snow
storm. The road I was on has a steep hill to climb before I got to my
neighborhood. Two old tanks, a Ford and an Oldsmobile were sliding around at
the bottom of the hill trying to go up. I slowed down a little, went in between
them and up the hill without slipping at all. I was feeling pretty good about
myself at this feat. A few blocks later I was brought down to earth. I made a
left turn into my platt, took it a little too fast, and broke the back end loose
and did a 180 between two parked cars! Missed both of them! I sat there for a
few moments in a state of shock, turned around and finished the drive home.


[Modified by vwfan, 11:26 AM 12-9-2001]