[Vwdiesel] stranded

[Shalyn Shourds]

I had something like that happen, but I fixed it on the side of the road and I didn't figure it counted....  I was far more than 8 miles out, it was late at night and rainy.  I knew instantly that's what'd happened.  I did have some wire in the car so I spliced in a line from the battery somehow.  It started up great.  While congratulating myself, I noticed the smoke rolling out from under the hood and the dash.  The selenoid wire stub found a ground and proceeded to burn up to the point of glowing.  I shut it down and ripped at the wire.  I then figured out that no one stops for a scrawny bearded man standing beside an old car in the middle of a rainy night .  I eventually just pieced it back together and drove the 75 miles home.  

Something similar piecing together the accelerator cable on the side of I-635 with traffic rattling the car.  

I figure the fixability is part of the draw.  

-Shalyn

--- On Tue, 5/22/12, mikitka <mikitka at embarqmail.com> wrote:

From: mikitka <mikitka at embarqmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] stranded
To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2012, 8:50 PM

The only stranded story I have is with the Jetta and it really wasn't a
stranded one but the wire to the IP broke off from the vibration and I
didn't have anything to connect it with at the time late at night. But I was
only 8 miles from home so it all worked out.  

Nick

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