The SAME EXACT THING happened to my friend's GLI a couple of months ago. Also a cheap off-brand alternator.
On 14 Aug 2002 at 9:24, Anthony Pelletier wrote: > So, I am driving my 91 GLI to work today. Suddenly I > bam... WTF is that sound. It sounds like a huge rock > hit my hood. But when I look foward it appears > something has shot through from the INSIDE of the > hood? So, I pull over to see what happened (the car > still runs fine).... Apparantly part of the fan on > the alternator came free and blew a 4" hole through my > hood. I'll never buy an autozone reman again.... The > pulley is still on the alternator, but part of the > alternator fan is on the street somewhere. I can't > believe how much power it had because it flew another > 20 feet after it blew though my hood. Weird shit... > Now I have to buy a new hood & have it painted : ( > Anyone in New England have a metallic black hood > around.... > > Just though I'd share > Tony > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs > http://www.hotjobs.com > _______________________________________________ > A2-16v mailing list > [email protected] > http://maillist.myip.org/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v
