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He's avoiding it.
That sounds like what happened to me this weekend! My boss's family has ranch property in south Texas, and when one of them gets a new truck, their old truck goes to the ranch and the old ranch truck gets sold cheap. Someone must've got a new truck, because he wanted to know if we were interested in another vehicle.Another update!
For the 07 I installed my expensive fleece performance 6HI circuit board which is really just a 4hi mod for me since I don't have any fog lights. These headlights are amazing for night time driving! Also picked up my ladder rack bar and threw that on yesterday. That's it for this truck at the moment.
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Well well well...
I decided to not pursue that 03 Sierra 2500HD, because something else arrived in my posession.
An 06 VW Jetta TDI 1.9L 5spd car. Nicely optioned, heated leather seats, "moonroof", power windows, diesel, and a 5 speed manual. I think it's super neat I just wanted to paint the fenders and hood to match, do window tint, and then just drive it.
It was my coworker JD's car for the last year and a month or so ago he parked it since it lost all gauges and had a few other little issues with the other major one being something wrong with the electric steering motor, which he already had a new one in a box ready to go. I went out to his house earlier this week and we tried to mess with it, and got nowhere and it had a new issue where it wasn't building boost at all so at that point I threw him an offer and he didn't even debate with me.
I was super stoked to now own my first car, and the diesel/manual was the best part because I've wanted one forever just never had the opportunity to have one.
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Well I finally had a chance to mess with it on Friday night, and turns out when we were swapping the computer out (which didn't help anything, did a anti-theft thing where it wouldn't even start so it needed flashing first) a vacuum line for the wastegate ended up disconnected so I hooked that up and we had boost and were now back in business. The electric steering still didn't work but it was drivable at this point.
Added it to my insurance with the 07 and it actually dropped $20 over 6 months so that was pretty funny because it always goes up for me when I add something else. I then proceed to drive it to the lake and hang out with some friends, take it to a grocery store, and then back out to a coworkers house and the car did great. Not super fast at all but it was fun blowing smoke at a tailgater in whatever car is like the ford taurus but branded as a mercury.
Later that night I started to head home, backed down the driveway, put it in first gear, started to go, and revved it to like 3500 and went to shift into 2nd gear and blew it up. It actually continued to run for a minute so I tried putting it in reverse to make it back to the driveway and then it locked up entirely. Literally blew a hole through both sides of the block and could see through it. We used a ratchet strap to pull it backwards 80 feet into the driveway so I could go get the truck and trailer. I ended up driving Pinecone home that night and would go retrieve my car the next day.
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Sooooo while Pinecone was back in my posession I did some things to it for James like check all the fluids, fix the brake light, fixed the interior driver side door handle, and put the headache rack back on it since I took it off my 07 when I put the lumber rack on. Had to do some welding fixes but it's solid now so he was stoked about that.
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I picked up my car that afternoon and it was actually extremely easy to load since my truck sat in a flat spot and we were able to roll the car into the trailer without issue.
This Jetta lasted 38.8 miles, and what's ironic here is the S10 I bought from him a month or two ago blew up at 9 miles, I just need to stop buying vehicles from him. I also seem to just have bad luck with things dying quickly and goes to show you what can and can't stand my abuse (green truck is a pass, 07 is a pass, the dodge is always a 50/50 chance, 98 k1500 was a pass, and then everything else is a fail lol)
I like this car too much so I'll be on the hunt for another 1.9L TDI engine to swap back into it. I actually plan to keep this car I have been wanting a nice commuter for a long time! James was super stoked about the S10 too he is all giddy over that.
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So until whatever is next in my comedic life!