Last Christmas my girlfriend gave me a remote car starter for the Passat. Cool. Unfortunately the place she bought it from ("Sound Waves" in Clinton, CT) couldn't do the install till the end of Jan. Not Cool, but OK. I get it installed and lovin' the convenience of having a warm car every morning. About a week later the antenna, adhered to the top left of my windshield with double sticky tape, comes lose and is now dangling from the wire - Not Cool. I stick it back up and note that I'll have to fix that later with double sticky tape that I know will work. I can't help being a little disappointed that I have to fix what a professional auto electronics shop did.
Last week my girlfriend commented that my car smelled funny. I too had recently noticed an odd smell developing. This last Saturday, it rained. I go out to my car Sunday evening and find a puddle of water in the rear driver’s side at least 2 inches deep!!!! (Car was sitting slightly up-hill) All the windows were completely closed, so I figure something must have gone haywire with my sunroof, like clogged sunroof drains. I soaked up as much water as I could with towels, but this morning all the interior windows were dripping with condensation. What a mess!!
This evening I pulled the car into the garage so I could leave the windows and sunroof open and help it dry. I blow compressed air through the sunroof drains, and they work just fine. Then I remove the plastic cowl cover to see if there's anything funky in there. I notice a blue wire, from the remote starter, that disappears through the side of a factory wire harness grommet. The grommet has been cut into to get this wire through and since this is the cowl, water flows right over this grommet. The boneheads that put the car starter in cut right through a critical grommet in my cowl and didn't even bother to RTV it!!!! This is total #$%^& crap!!!! I'm half tempted to sue them or put in an insurance claim and let my insurance company chase them (if that's even possible). I'm so #@$%& Pissed I could Scream!
Thanks for letting me vent.
Last week my girlfriend commented that my car smelled funny. I too had recently noticed an odd smell developing. This last Saturday, it rained. I go out to my car Sunday evening and find a puddle of water in the rear driver’s side at least 2 inches deep!!!! (Car was sitting slightly up-hill) All the windows were completely closed, so I figure something must have gone haywire with my sunroof, like clogged sunroof drains. I soaked up as much water as I could with towels, but this morning all the interior windows were dripping with condensation. What a mess!!
This evening I pulled the car into the garage so I could leave the windows and sunroof open and help it dry. I blow compressed air through the sunroof drains, and they work just fine. Then I remove the plastic cowl cover to see if there's anything funky in there. I notice a blue wire, from the remote starter, that disappears through the side of a factory wire harness grommet. The grommet has been cut into to get this wire through and since this is the cowl, water flows right over this grommet. The boneheads that put the car starter in cut right through a critical grommet in my cowl and didn't even bother to RTV it!!!! This is total #$%^& crap!!!! I'm half tempted to sue them or put in an insurance claim and let my insurance company chase them (if that's even possible). I'm so #@$%& Pissed I could Scream!
Thanks for letting me vent.