[T3] Back home again!

[Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

I'm finally back home; actually got in wednesday evening and went to work 
today, thursday. I spent an extra day getting home, taking a side trip to my 
parent's home in east central Indiana.

I took a rather "scenic" route both there and back, and I'm still not sure of 
my total mileage. As always, I forgot to set my trip odometer when I started 
off, so there's some uncertainty. I wrote down my mileage at my first fill-up 
of the trip, which was somewhere in northern Illinois, but I'm not exactly sure 
where. At any rate, my total mileage was somewhere over 2100 miles.

I remember that I checked the oil at that first fillup and found it low, but it 
had not been checked before I started. The rest of the trip saw absolutely no 
change in the oil or ATF levels. I still need to figure my gas mileage, but it 
was better going east with a tailwind than coming home into a rather strong 
headwind. Speeds ranged from 65 to 85, except for the occasional traffic 
bottlenecks where there was construction.

I didn't have a single car problem the whole trip.  ;-)

I do have a lot of wind noise from the driver's side door, however. I need to 
adjust how it sits on it's hinges. Pretty minor stuff.

Speaking of hinges, I've always wondered about the fact that the hinges and 
their bolts are all painted over from the factory. This has to mean that the 
doors were bolted on and adjusted before painting and that ALL the door parts 
had to be added afterwards, without removing the doors. It sure seems like it 
would have been a lot easier to assemble the doors if they were off the car.



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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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