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Well as you know I mentioned some of my mishaps for this year. I had other problems. This happened a few weeks ago . It was night time aftera long day of work an d working out at school..... As I was driving on the HWY towards Mexico , sorrounded by heavily loaded semi trucks, I was going 75 , radio playing "Baby got back" the big butt song.... well anyhow my car's smooth running began to buckle , miss , backfire, then got normal for a second , then lights began to dim engine turning off and on then lights dimmed again , radio going off and on , all thiss seem ed my car was possesed like the car Christine and I was sorounded by semi trailer trucks , very scary. I was able to punch it in one of the on/off incidences , I passed a large truck loaded with steel billet. went to the side of the road as the car turned itself off for the last time, I could smell burning wires. i desconnected the very hot battery connection, inspected the car for burned melted wires and found none . After 10 minutes looking with the flishlight I atrtempted to start the car, everything was lit and was not affected by turning the key, no lights dim down. It seemed like as if the starter was dead , I checked input voltages to the starter and all was good, I attempted to start the starter by shorting it with a screw driver, nothing happened , all indications showed that the starter was dead, I called my brother from the auto parts store and he once again delivered my parts. , I replaced the starter and all was normal and good again , this was at night on the hwy under the car .... sucked. Has anyone ever seen a starter solenoid so badly shorted that it shorted the battery to ground ? This was soooo odd and weird .... Let me know if this ever happened to anyone, I have all the odd problems always. Next problem a month ago , my auto tranny was working beautifully up and down the hilly twisty roads of Tijuana , going 60 in a 30 mph road all of a sudden my tranny got possed it was shiftinag all over then going good then shifting all over 60mph and in 1st gear then 3rd then 2nd , all random all over , I was afraid that it would hit reverse too, I went to the side of the road , checked the fluid, fluid was clean , turned the car on and proceeded , all good going 60 again for a little while then again the evil spirit took possesion again, I took it to a autotranny mechanic along the way and he told me it needed a rebuild , it would cost 1000 bucks to do all work, I said screw it , I took it home , this time slowly to my TJ house , All bummed out I proceeded to inspect the easiest thing , which was the governer. I found that the little shaft that turned the governer via the differential assembly was all messed up , the shaft was turning in the cup where it is pressed in so it will turn as an assembly. I got another governer with the same part number from a doner tranny that had a good shaft , and car restored to normal running. Have you ever seen this problem before? Another problem happened when I bought new chromed rims and tires 2 weeks ago . I bought 5.5 inch rims put new tires on it and away I was on the road , i noticed what seemed tire noise, a buzzing was out there on my new wider , harder tires , I brought it back continuously to the tire store , they kept telling me it was not the tires , I was angry and thought I was being scammed , I took it to napa repair in Mexico and the mechanic fond that the inner bearing on one side was loosing all of it's chrome, it was well greased but the chrome was gon and it was bumpy , and only noticeable with the bearing out in your hands or on the car while running , never was dtected while turning tire or front disc by hand. All bearing replaced with quality USA TImkin's , car is smooth now , today I will get it alighned , ran over a manhole with a missing manhole cover, people in Mexico steal those to sell the metal, hehehe. Ever see this problem before too, undetectable bad bearing? LEON MARTINEZ SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org