Once and only once I fit myself, 3 big dudes and our snowboards for the 1/2 hr trip to our local ski slopes. They complained all the way home about the exhaust noise, babies.
Another time, I bought one of those K-Mart bike racks, it didn't like the shape of the GTi's hatch. Only 1 of the bikes was really damaged, at least it was on an unused back road. As a side note, for full disclosure, I've had snowboards, sailboards and surfboards fly off the roof at one time or another. We used to call it premature ejection. Anyway, I now have a Volvo wagon w/2" hitch and a hitch bike rack. Snowboards now always travel inside in either car. On Dec 24, 2015, at 11:48 AM, Larry Velez wrote: > I find myself having to ask for favors to haul stuff around because all our > cars are small. > > Today I had to throw out an old mattress and had to ask our lawn guy to take > it to the dump for me. > > I am thinking that if I ever get my MK2 running again I might put a rack on > it to be able to transport mattresses and such and the occasional large item > on top. I can’t yet get myself to get an SUV which would mostly be wasted > space on most days. And from what I have seen most people can’t fit anything > inside their SUV anyway and end up putting it on top anyway. > > What kind of large stuff have you put into or on top of your Mk2? > > Obviously putting anything heavy would be a no no, like that infamous MK3 > Jetta crushed by plywood… but the ocassional ladder, mattress or Ikea run > which happens ocassionally would be useful to be able to do with the Mk2. > > Some of you probably have pickup trucks for such tasks but I have no room nor > desire to own a pick up truck. > > Maybe I just need to get a ‘station wagon’ as my next daily (current daily is > an Audi B5 A4). > > -Larry > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MK2-16v" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to mk2-16v+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to mk2-16v@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mk2-16v. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mk2-16v/e91861b7cb534f2b8914a4f374e1a468%40MBX082-E1-VA-2.EXCH082.SERVERPOD.NET. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MK2-16v" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mk2-16v+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to mk2-16v@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mk2-16v. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mk2-16v/88630B2D-0344-4D22-86BF-CD7C7711779F%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
