So it started having problems when we got into California on our move up here to Oregon. It started to overheat when we slowed down so we figured it was just the face that we had been driving for 4 hours straight without stopping so we pulled over and waited for like an hour.. and this continued to happen every time we slowed down. The temperature gauge would sky rocket and white smoke would come out the back(because the engine is in the back in VW's) and you could hear the coolant start to boil. It was a freakin mess and it caused our 11 hour drive to San Francisco turn into a 15 hour drive.. in weather that was insane. Hail, rain, 50 MPH wind, sand storms, and dense fog. Awesome.
Once we got into Oregon and let the car rest for a day it seemed fine until about a week into living here, the van had a really hard time starting. We figured because it was so much colder here than AZ that was the problem, until it started dying once we started it. We'd start it and it would chug and then die. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. Needless to say it was obnoxious. So we took it into Sears Auto because it's literally across the street from us and so we could walk back and forth while it was being worked on. Well $500 later they tell us they "hopefully" fixed the problem. We started driving back home from the mall, which is about 5 minutes away, and in the middle of driving the car DIED!! Completely dies. So we are stranded in a parking lot.
We finally make it home and call Sears the next day and they tell us to bring it back in. So we do and they take a look and drive it around and say we can't find anything here try to drive it again and see what happens. We drive home and it seems fine so we decide it's time to take a trip to do laundry at the laundromat which is 5 minutes away too, everything is extremely close together here. We get about a block away and, yep you guessed it, the van dies. The guy from Sears comes out to take a look at it because now the car won't start AT ALL. He looks and says oh it must be the fuel pump has died and you aren't getting any gas to the engine.. (which I thought was the problem in the first place, not bad for a girl haha:)
We tow the van home and immediately put it for sale on craigslist. BAM!!! Within a few hours we have 2 calls. They come look and say they will call us back. Whatever. Liars. Within 2 days of putting it on craigslist we sold it for $2500 and now are looking at new cars. Thank goodness everything is so close that we can walk or ride our bikes.
Moral of the story: NEVER BUY A VOLKSWAGON!
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