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Last Call- Return of the Jetta Edition

Robert Emslie January 5, 2012 Last Call

Darth Poser, your BMVW Jetthree series is waiting.

Image source: [The Car Lounge]

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  1. Tomsk says:
    January 5, 2012 at 6:09 pm

    The Farce is strong with this one.

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  2. smokyburnout says:
    January 5, 2012 at 6:14 pm

    There's some interesting aerodynamic developments going on there. That wing near the back of the hood must generate ounces of downforce! Wonder if that top duct in the fender functions like a vent window.

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  3. 1slowvw says:
    January 5, 2012 at 6:39 pm

    Argh! I was looking at mk3's today. It is quite sad to see this picture (even if it's an old re-run). That generation VW really wasn't bad if you ignore the fact the floors came factory equipped with rust. Normally I can pretty easily agree that a lot of the mods that happen to VW's might not be to my taste, but this…..this is something else entirely.

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  4. Devin says:
    January 5, 2012 at 6:45 pm

    Someone seriously needs to stop George Lucas from changing those movies any more.

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    • jeepjeff says:
      January 5, 2012 at 8:21 pm

      They're bringing out the first of the prequels in 3D this year. There's no way it is going to be the same film as last time. 'Course, I'm not going to see it because with Jar-Jar Binks, well, Once, adj.: Enough.

      (And Han Shot First.)

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  5. kvhnik says:
    January 5, 2012 at 6:59 pm

    Someone seriously needs to have their Pep Boys card taken away from them.

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    • The Professor says:
      January 5, 2012 at 8:21 pm

      Yes, indeed. That 'grille' makes my teeth itch. I take them out and scratch them, but they still itch.

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      • FuzzyPlushroom says:
        January 6, 2012 at 5:36 am

        Yep. Were it boosted, or a VR6, or flat-out engine-swapped, the body kit and wheels might be somewhere near reasonable… but there's no excuse for that grille.

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  6. craigsu says:
    January 5, 2012 at 7:01 pm

    I'm not sure which is worse: the fact that someone actually bought these things or the fact that someone realized there is a market for these things and made them anyway.

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  7. Thrashy says:
    January 5, 2012 at 7:09 pm

    Eye Bleach here! Get your Eye Bleach here! Fifty cents for a two-shot applicator! Five bucks a bottle!

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  8. ptschett says:
    January 5, 2012 at 7:32 pm

    Offtopic: So last week I spent part of my holiday break working on my old '96 Thunderbird to pass the time. It's been parked at the family farm (200 miles from where I live) since when I got the Challenger, and I've stored it with a full gas tank and with stabilizer in the gas. After an oil change and a general checkover underneath I decided it was time for new tires.

    On my way home from the tire store I decided I should top off the gas again and give the T-bird some Seafoam for fuel system cleaner/stabilizer, since I'm going to leave it at the farm again till this spring. Within a couple miles of highway driving my car felt a little funny, then I passed a car and my car sure seemed slow. When I neared to the farm I could tell it was missing, and shortly got the blinking-MIL indication of impending engine/catalyst doom.

    Code reader gave me a pair of P0301, misfire cylinder #1 codes. I was certain I was the victim of a bad batch of gas, or the Seafoam was doing it, maybe loosened some crud that clogged the injector, etc. I cleared the code and went for a test drive again… same P0301 and blinking MIL. Interestingly, no additional new misfire codes.

    Finally I decided to check the spark plug, just to see what was going on in that cylinder. Just the slightest tug on the wrench and it started turning…. hrmm.

    Best as I can tell, that plug had just simply come loose. I swapped it with a spare I kept from the last tuneup (93,000 miles ago… double-platinum plugs and 100k-mile tuneup interval) and it ran just fine, at least for the hundred-some miles I put on the car afterwards diagnosing a few less-critical codes (P1131 and P1443).

    Up next for the T-bird: new plugs and wires (Motorcraft, even… I spared no expense), an O2 sensor for the P1131 code, some bodywork and maybe a return to service in the summer months.

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    • Lotte says:
      January 5, 2012 at 9:24 pm

      Is it okay to keep gas in a car for winter storage? I do realize it might be a pain in the ass to drain…so what storage duration would make you consider draining?

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      • ptschett says:
        January 6, 2012 at 8:00 am

        I think its safe for at least a month. Longer than that and I like to give it some Seafoam or Sta-bil (whichever I have the easiest time getting that day.)

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    • Thrashy says:
      January 5, 2012 at 9:26 pm

      Man, I wish my car had real OBD. All that OBD-0 is good for is saying "Yeah, there's probably something wrong with something… you should maybe figure that out." Thanks car, I already knew that.

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      • FuzzyPlushroom says:
        January 6, 2012 at 5:44 am

        The LH-Jetronic 2.4/3.1 in later 240s/740s and 940s will cheerfully blink an LED at you to let you know what its problem is. If you keep a service manual (or a couple of photocopied pages) around, and you're capable of holding down a button for three seconds underhood and moving a probe-on-a-stick-on-a-wire from one socket to the other, it's cake.

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        • Thrashy says:
          January 6, 2012 at 8:01 am

          I've got that too, but the codes are so broad that you might as well just throw out that part of the shop manual. For instance, the code that nominally corresponds to "Injectors" could be triggered by a problem at any point in the fuel system all the way back to the tank, and is actually most commonly caused by a faulty under-dash relay, of all things.

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          • FuzzyPlushroom says:
            January 6, 2012 at 8:20 am

            That's where getting to know the quirks of each car on which you frequently wrench becomes important. Fortunately, I tend to stick with Volvos.

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    • facelvega says:
      January 6, 2012 at 1:31 am

      Platinum plugs last 100k under optimal conditions, but foul them when the engine is burning oil or say when your gas has been sitting around for a long time (did you run the engine for a while after adding stabilizer to circulate it through the fuel lines etc.?) and they won't last anything like that. I'd drive another couple hundred miles or so when it comes out of storage before doing the tune-up, so that any potential gunk has already burned off before the new plugs come in.

      ps, I bet somebody loosened that spark plug when they saw that engine code after sneaking a drive in your car and freaking out that they had damaged it. Seems more likely than the plug working loose on its own, but maybe your cousins are more reliable than mine.

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      • ptschett says:
        January 6, 2012 at 7:15 am

        Yeah it had run with the stabilized gas before. I would have known if it was moved since the last time I drove it at Thanksgiving… it had bird poop blocking the drivers view (darn sparrows!), and the battery had lost its charge.

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        • facelvega says:
          January 6, 2012 at 9:19 am

          Ah, well the mystery remains but you make me hanker after my Datsun which winters in a family garage hundreds of miles from here. The last time I saw it, my pristine Z car was covered in cat paw prints and had some boxes, two crumpled tarps, and a rooftop cargo carrier from a minivan piled on top of it. I'm hoping the venom I seethed at the time will be enough to keep it untouched for a few more months, but if in the spring it starts dropping spark plugs I may cry.

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  9. OA5599 says:
    January 5, 2012 at 8:02 pm

    Attack of the Clones; or, Luke, I am not your father's Oldsmobile.

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  10. craigsu says:
    January 5, 2012 at 8:42 pm

    Man, the closer I look the worse it gets. Wipers with twin blades and tint on both the top AND bottom edges of the windshield. This thing looks like a rolling JC Whitney catalog.

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  11. lilpoindexter says:
    January 5, 2012 at 8:57 pm

    I suspect someone with a lot of time, and some fiberglass skillz, whipped up this puppy.

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  12. Alff says:
    January 5, 2012 at 9:00 pm

    It's time to unpimp zee auto.[youtube dW_Y1cnLYVo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW_Y1cnLYVo youtube]

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  13. Thrashy says:
    January 5, 2012 at 9:31 pm

    I found its little brother!

    <img src="http://carphotos.cardomain.com/ride_images/1/939/3001/2346500031_large.jpg"&gt;

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  14. facelvega says:
    January 5, 2012 at 11:14 pm

    I don't know what everyone is talking about– how is it different from any other Audi?

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  15. suju89 says:
    January 6, 2012 at 3:48 am

    TOTALLY UNRELATED BUT I JUST HAD TO SHARE THIS!!!

    This here is Bob Hawke, former Prime Minister of Australia, chugging a beer at the cricket on the request of the crowd a couple of days ago!
    (for some reason I cant embed the video)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed…

    Worth noting that while attending Oxford University in 1953 he set a Guinness World Record by downing 2.5 pints in 11 seconds.

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    • OA5599 says:
      January 6, 2012 at 5:38 am

      That's how they choose the country's leaders over there? On the basis of the ability to chug beer?

      That's ridiculous. It could usher in leaders with no leadership abilities, no ability to speak without someone else having told him or her what to say, little respect at home or in the rest of the world, or someone whose policies wreck the country and shred the economy.

      That could never happen here.

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  16. Resh says:
    January 6, 2012 at 4:56 am

    anybody else notice the Escort GT in the background first? frankly, I find it to be more interesting…

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  17. JeepyJayhawk says:
    January 6, 2012 at 8:18 am

    I'd say it's a jolly good time to roll the nuke cannon out of the Hubble.

    Nuking it (and the Smart) from orbit is the only way to be sure it won't infect more cars.

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