Even though my maths showed another car wasn’t a thing that would pay off, really, I’ve still been window shopping. I found a few cars that I really liked and would be cool to own, such as a 2011 VW Passat TDI. I found one with decent mileage that I could probably swing for cash, at 90K miles, $3500 or so. TDIs are not real popular.
Then I saw this:
DOH!
Most of these I wouldn’t buy anyhow. But, one of those five to him was VWs of any kind. Mostly because of main seals. Crap. I’d kind of like a Golf or Passat TDI. And pre-2012 comes before the retarded emissions tech. these are known to go many more than 100K miles.
I may still look at it when I’m off next week.
Then another cool possibility hit me. I was watching a Vlog with the girl about this woman who married a Mexican that got tangled up in INS (years and two kids ago) so she moved to Mexico:
Homey is looking for a project car, not unlike myself. One of those that didn’t tickle his fancy was a couple 1993 Beetles – the old school kind. I think the thing was $1900 or so.
These things vanished here well before that. So I asked the Girl if her sister could score me one of those newer Beetles. She said she probably could and would.
Hell, I never thought of that! Wonder how I could get it here…uh…legally.
I’ll have to look at that.
A newer Beetle than you can score here, rust free? Hmm…
Imma look into that.
Inspected By Pat 
You could not GIVE me any of this “German Engineering” crap. First fail was 30 or so years ago when a buddy presented me with his VW Quantum Snychro and a bad water pump that was going to run him $1500 to replace. WHAT?!?!?! Yeah. Have to rip the entire front of the car apart to get to it because? Some dumbass thought it would be a GREAT idea to drive the pump off the TIMING CHAIN.
And what? GM went to SCHOOL on that with Herself’s Pontiac G(arbage)6 in 2008. I imagine the Malibu was the same.
THEN… there’s my buddy last year with his Audi that nearly cooked itself. How? Yeah… the water pump thing again only THIS time the pump failed because? Condensate from the PCV valve above it dripped down and corroded the electrical contacts causing an open circuit and the pump would stop running.
Yes, that’s right folks. German Engineers decided that it would be a good idea to drive the water pump on an internal combustion engine with ELECTRICITY. There’s reasons for it that I won’t get in to here but that’s what they did.
HARD PASS.
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