So, been quiet for a while. The day after I made the above post (and after hand-washing this thing inside and out), the construction company working on my condo building dropped construction material onto the car from floor 12. (Swing stage was directly above my parking spot). Went about 2.5 months back and forth as they wanted to settle outside of insurance.. it's finally scheduled to get fixed in the new year. Wanted to avoid posting pictures or posting about it until it's entirely fixed.
Contractor tried to drag it on and lowball the settlement. Unfortunately for them, I'm an architect by profession and I know exactly how their contract is laid out with the prime consultant/owner's rep. Part of me feels glad it happened to me; someone who can force them to administer the contract, and not someone completely oblivious to being totally fucked over. It has been such a shit show to have all the parties involved do what they're contracted to do in a situation like this..
Bottom line, the body work is getting done at a certified VW shop the first week of January.
In other news, was at the dealer and snapped a couple photos of some cars. Absolutely slammed Jetta (static) as well as a 91 Blue R. Not a big fan of the faux carbon wrap, but loving the paint-matched box.
So, pretty much all the small car projects are on hold until the spring. Might pick up the Euro tails just to secure them and get it off my mind. A few parts I've got waiting to go in and what I have planned for preventative maintenance;
- Camshaft position sensor P/N 04C 907 601 K (Throwing fault code).
- Ignition switch P/N 5G1 959 839 A3Q7 (Current one is peeling).
- Upstream 02 sensor P/N 06K 906 262 CS (Throwing open circuit code).
Preparing the wallet to hopefully fix my 2014/2004/2015 fault codes;
- HPFP P/N 06L 127 025 T (Hot start issue, suspected vapors leaking back into crank case).
- Intake manifold position sensor P/N 06K 907 386 D (Throwing fault code).
Parking buddy at the mall.
Winters also went on.