Fwd: Re: [Vwdiesel] '93 WV EV jumped time update #4

[David Cook]

Forwarded out of my sent box for the group's
enlightenment...

--- David Cook <vwdieselbunny at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Rolf-
> 
> If you've got AAA, you should be able to get at
> least
> a partial reimbursement for the tow.
> 
> I got my old bus towed by the city because I had it
> parked on the street for several days without
> moving. 
> They failed to consider that they had plowed snow up
> 5
> feet around the bus!  Boy was I pissed.
> 
> Anyway, I called AAA and was able to get a partial
> refund of the charges...  I think they didn't pay
> the
> impound fee, or it was just that they paid the
> amount
> they would have been charged by their selected tow
> company...  Something like that.  Anyway, it is
> worth
> checking into.
> 
> Additionally, when all this happened, my roomate
> told
> me that his insurance company would have reimbursed
> him if that had happened to him.  My policy didn't
> have that coverage, but it is another thing worth
> checking into.
> 
> David
> 
> 
> --- rOLf peCHUkas <rbp at 4u2bu.org> wrote:
> 
> > hey all
> > sorry if this is getting tedious (I know it is for
> > me)
> > 
> > so not only did they tow me this morning after
> > telling me it would be 
> > OK to stay on the side of the road, the officer
> who
> > told me that is now 
> > claiming he only authorized me being there one
> night
> > (totally not 
> > true)(I'm guessing he got dressed down for not
> > knowing the regs and is 
> > covering his own ass at my expense)
> > anyway, I'm going to be out another $110. bucks
> > tomorrow morning, and 
> > although I'll file something with the town, I'll
> > never see those $ 
> > again
> > what sucks is that I have AAA+ and could have
> gotten
> > it out of there 
> > for free any time if they'd only told me I needed
> to
> > move it
> > (think there might be a little small-town
> connection
> > between PD and 
> > towing company? never seen THAT before)
> > 
> > to make matters worse, the guy rebuilding my head
> > and who told me it 
> > would be ready last Tuesday and wouldn't cost more
> > than $250, and who's 
> > been avoiding my calls ever since, now claims to
> > have $500 in it and he 
> > can't locate the right intake valve and doesn't
> know
> > when it'll be done
> > 
> > he's heli-coiled 11 of the inserts, all new
> lifters,
> > machined the head, 
> > ordered all new exhaust valves + guides as well as
> > one intake set...
> > I don't think he doesn't know what he's doing,
> > necessarily, and I don't 
> > think he's trying to rip me off, entirely
> > but he didn't call me when he went over his max $$
> > estimate (by a 
> > factor of TWO !!), or his time estimate (by a
> factor
> > of FOUR !!!!) and 
> > that is behavior that does not fill me with trust
> > 
> > he's giving me the option of returning his parts,
> > paying his labor, and 
> > just taking my head out of there (@ $250 poorer)
> > and I *may* be able to get cheaper parts (Steve
> > Schock to the rescue??) 
> > somewhere
> > but I am very reluctant to 1) let this guy off the
> > hook just b/c he's 
> > irresponsible, if not incompetent; and 2) to dump
> > his (questionable?) 
> > work on another shop and be out even more money
> and
> > possibly not get it 
> > done any better
> > 
> > wish I were set up to do my own head;
> > then I might not feel like I had to get my other
> > head done (the one on 
> > my neck)
> > 
> > thoughts?
> > 
> > Rolf
> > Still-In-the-Pound, N Amherst, MA
> > 
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> > 
> 
> 
> David Cook
> Red '86 Cabriolet Diesel Powered
> Red '90 g60 Corrado 
> Brown and White '78 Westy Campmobile "Bear"
> and others in various states of disrepair
> Pictures here:
> community.webshots.com/user/superdave5599
> 
> 
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David Cook
Red '86 Cabriolet Diesel Powered
Red '90 g60 Corrado 
Brown and White '78 Westy Campmobile "Bear"
and others in various states of disrepair
Pictures here: community.webshots.com/user/superdave5599


		
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