I don't have photoshop, so you'll have to use your imagination. the rims on the jetta-
on my car tomorrow! Or soon....whichever one comes first!

Night Drives

Somewhere between 1&2 am.
Night time. The best time to drive.
The Air flows cool and crisp through your open window.
All lights seem green, the road is yours.

Nightdriving.
It's soothing, it's effortless.
It's for the joy of driving.
No rush.
No need to be anywhere at a certain time.

Just feeling the road, the car, and nature itself.

Give yourself time.
Indulge.
Let every moment linger.

The music floats along,
Mirroring the rhythm of the engine.
Never thumping, never overpowering.
Just softly underlining every passing tree, house, and hedge.
And transforming your simple journey into a beautiful memory.

Slowly tiredness sets in.
You turn,
Arriving before the sun,
Leaving your Volkswagen
Until another night,
A night perfect for driving.

-from the Night Drives website, but I edited a few things to make it flow a little better and to echo my feelings a bit better...

Yippee Ki-Yay!

Just finished doing a bit of maintenance on the GTI - for the past few months I had been unable to see what the temperature of my car was. I didn't really worry about this during the winter or spring, as neither were particularly warm. But now we're entering summer, time of overheating cars. As I don't want to replace my engine immediately, I kind of wanted to know how hot and bothered my engine is getting! So I delved into my engine bay with a vague idea of where my CTS was... a couple of misses later, I scored a direct hit! And discovered the problem in the process. You see, the CTS is a single nail head sender, meaning it has a clip that sends the info to my temp guage. But due to my car being over 20 years old, the wire connected to that clip had slowly degraded until it finally gave up the ghost and broke right at the clip! So I went down to my good friends at Napa and picked up some new single head female couplers, stripped down some of the old wire and clipped it back up! Took the Beast for a little spin and lo, and behold my guage works! Rock and Roll! Now to find my allen wrenches so I can take out my Idle Stabiliser Valve (ISV) and give it a good clean with the quick-evaporating electrical cleaner I picked up last night. Hopefully that will remedy the erratic idle I've had in stop and go traffic since it was in the shop last time!