[T3] Goin' to hell in a handcart!

Jonathan Stiles misterstiles at gmail.com
Sat Jan 5 21:58:15 PST 2013


There is only one explanation. Aliens...

;)

On Saturday, January 5, 2013, Jim Adney wrote:

> On 31 Dec 2012 at 14:57, Jim Adney wrote:
>
> > We've had a few weeks of electronics nightmare in our house. It's
> > like everything decided to break at the same time.
>
> Well, instead of getting better, it just got worse.
>
> This noon, Melissa and I were out running errands in the 2011 Diesel
> Jetta when, over the course of ~10 seconds, the engine lost power to
> the point that it could no longer move the car; then it died.
> Restarted easily but was still weak and died again. Restarted weakly
> again and died right away. Waited 1.5 hours for a tow to the dealer,
> but when the tow driver tried to start it, it started up and ran
> normally. It was actually a bit warmer today, so I don't think the
> cold (25 F) was the problem.
>
> I'll put our scan tool on it tomorrow and take it to the dealer on
> monday. Meanwhile, I'm leary of taking it anywhere....
>
> Then, Melissa's desktop motherboard suffered the same fate as mine
> did ~3 weeks ago. Dell GX270, same make, model, and age as mine.
> That's really well planned obsolescense, creepy.
>
> This is written on one of our 2 laptops. Hope those hang in there
> long enough for me to build replacement desktops.
>
> And, BTW, ATT DSL service remains spotty. Hope I can get tonight's
> Type 3 email responded to before it conks out again.
>
> --
> *******************************
> Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org <javascript:;>
> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
> *******************************
>
> _______________________________________________
> VWType3.Org mailing list - type3 at vwtype3.org <javascript:;>
> http://lists.vwtype3.org/listinfo.cgi/type3-vwtype3.org
> Contact gregm at vwtype3.org <javascript:;> if you need help with the list.
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.vwtype3.org/pipermail/type3-vwtype3.org/attachments/20130105/5f861bcf/attachment.htm>



More information about the type3-vwtype3.org mailing list