Well, I was the one that ended up buying the RTDI from rspring.
Dealing with Rick(rspring) has been phenomenal and would definitely buy anything from him again.
Picking up the car was a bit of an ordeal though...since I was unable to go get the car due to being in a wheelchair, so I had a friend fly to Dallas to pick up the RTDI.
Fran was supposed to be picked up at 9 am from the hotel...needless to say he did get picked up till 10:30 and then when he got to shop the car wasn't even there. The car was at one of the mechanics homes. Apparently the mechanic didn't even know the car was getting picked yesterday Saturday May 30th,2015. So when Fran first saw the car there were wires every where and half of the dash was apart. The glove box was out, the wires were every hanging loose, the door sills weren't on, and the Borla exhaust that was supposed to be installed wasn't.
This is after I called down this past Wednesday May 27th, 2015 to confirm that the car would be ready for the 1200 mile trip back to Wisconsin and was told it would be ready to go.
Fran called me to see if I still wanted to buy the car, because he couldn't imagine the car was going to be able to be driven back. After explaining things to me, I figured the interior could be put back in at least, so the mechanic put everything together.
Then the extra parts had to get loaded in the car before Fran could leave, so that added more time.
Here is the real kicker...is that Fran went to fill up the car and couldn't, because come to find out the original R32 filler neck was still in the car.
Fran headed back to the shop and asked how they filled the car and was handed a foot long funnel to fill the tank on the car.
When he had to use the funnel to fill up the car it was a huge pita and the regular gas vent was leaking fuel, when he got near to top and luckily a bystander noticed and mentioned it to Fran after nearly a gallon had leaked out. The whole car wreaked of diesel and because of this, Fran had to stop for the night, because the fumes were getting to him. If not for that he thought he could have made the trip in a day.
Luckily Fran has helped me with my car, otherwise he never would have known where to look for the hood release under the hood because there's no grill in place for the hood pull to go through.
The drive back went pretty smooth, minus running out of fuel, because the fuel gauge isn't working and showed 3/4 when he ran out. Luckily a police officer stopped and stayed with him till the tow truck got there with diesel. Good thing for a lift pump.
Fran did say that the car ran great once up to temp and made good time by following a group of bikers at 90 mph and had to catch up once, because they got away when a few semis got in the way, so he did a quick 120 mph sprint to catch up.
He also really likes the responsiveness of the brakes.
I'll have to go through the car over the next couple of days and see what parts are in the car...hopefully a MKIV Golf TDI filler neck.
Any idea Steve if it's in the car?
Well there's mine and Fran's experience on getting the car from Fort Worth Texas to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin in 2 days.
