My daily driver is a 1997 GTI VR6. Other than, hmmm, being ready for its fourth coilpack, it's been pretty problem free. The funniest was the afternoon I stopped for a school bus. I stalled it when I started to drive away. Stalled it a second time... What the heck? Finally figured out I was down to only 3rd and 4th. No 1st, 2nd, 5th, or reverse. I managed to get to the garage we use, negotiating the traffic light at the top of a hill just fine. Dropped the car off with visions of $thousands, and got a ride home from a friend. Hadn't been home long when John called, "Your car is ready..." "How can that be?" I asked. "Loose nut," john responded. (Note he didn't exactly say where it was...) At that point the car was 16 years old, one would have thought the loose nut would have come into play long before that.