OK, here goes, but it's painful.
The '86: I had taken a contract in Memphis in '96 and drove the '86 down
there from Upstate NY (UNY). In the fall of '97, slowly disappearing
coolant was diagnosed at the Peugeot garage in Mississippi (a few miles
South of the eastern edge of Memphis) as having a blown head gasket, so I
had it replaced. Then in February of '98, I bought the '87 V6, and a month
later as I was about to move to a new contract in Columbus, I drove the '86
back to UNY for my son to use. About ten months later, the head gasket blew
out again (suddenly, this time). I decided it was not worth repairing,
since the salt in UNY was doing a number on a badly repaired right rear
quarter panel from a previous owner's misfortune. I had just replaced all
the seats with like new leather seats that I had found. I ended up giving
the car away. (I got a couple of cases of organic grape juice in exchange,
but it was out of the driveway.) For all I know, it was repaired and may
still be on the road. Anyone have a dark grey '86 sti?
The '81 TD: Some local government idiot gave a paving company permission
to pave Rt. 96 in Ithaca during rush hour. It's a two lane road, and they
had flaggers out to maintain two-way traffic in the one open lane. Well, I
guess at least three hundred cars in front of me stopped, I stopped with no
problem about three feet behind the big American iron that I couldn't see
through, and was rear-ended by a NY State Police Criminal Investigator who
was looking at something other than me. Suddenly the Peugeot was about two
feet shorter than it had been a moment earlier, and because of the trailer
hitch, the trunk floor and the rest of the back end was pointing down at
the pavement. Three state troopers responded within five minutes. I had
them call a garage that took care of it for me, and he picked it up with
his roll back truck, leaving a nice groove in the road from the trailer
hitch. I had Gary step on the brakes after he loaded it while the troopers
watched, so they could see that my stop lights were still working. I'm not
sure what he did after the insurance people got done downgrading every
panel on the car due to rust spots, but the back end was almost the height
it should be, but still about a foot and a half shorter. I replaced the
broken resonator with a piece of flexible pipe, and put another 7,000 miles
on before I found the '86 to replace it. The car had about 260,000 miles on
it when it was hit, but the worst part was that I had replaced the engine
at roughly 140,000 miles with an almost new '84 TD from a wreck when I had
the head gasket blow out suddenly. That new engine was just reaching the
nicely broken in point where the fuel mileage and the power had improved
significantly over what it had been when it was still like new (and tight).
I put the car in a barn for several years hoping to find a good body with a
blown engine. A couple of the brake calipers went onto the '86, and I still
have the sunroof cable as a spare for my '87.
Told you it was painful. The worst part is that my neck still gets sore
from the whiplash, and I didn't know until the statute of limitations
expired that I could have sued, despite the "no-fault" rules. Now there are
at least three TV ads every hour in UNY for accident specialist lawyers.
Steve
At 05:57 PM 4/7/2005, Andrew wrote:
>G'day Steve
>
>I was interested in this topic because Thomas and I
>have been having some communications about the fuel
>consumption his 505TD compared to my 604 SRDT (both
>XD2S engines), but now your comments have caught my
>attention.
>
>I can understand what you mean by the '80 505 diesel
>dying of a myriad of complications, but I'm
>particularly intrigued at what you might mean by the
>ways that both the '86 505 sti and the '81 505 tdiesel
>have died.
>
>I'd love to hear your explanations, please!
>
>Cheers,
>Andrew
> > Rust in peace:
> > '86 505 sti - 5 speed - committed suicide
> > '81 505 tdiesel 5 speed - murdered by a NY
> > State trooper
> > '80 505 diesel auto - died of a myriad of
> > complications
> > '79 504 diesel 4 speed - mortally wounded
> > by inattentive driver
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