The starter of Karma was dead more than two weeks, but it didn’t bother us too much. Still it did affect our life quite a bit. The criteria for camping places changed, as well as for restaurants and other stops. You started liking hills and hating narrow holes.
Fortunately people thought it was fun to push start the old Karma, so we got easily help when we were in the civilization. We thought it was better to fix the starter before the shipping to Columbia so the stevedores don’t have to toe it. Didn’t stress too much though.J
We sent an inquiry to a Volkswagen spare part store who gave us a price that even after bargaining didn´t satisfy us. So we did nothing about that and waited for another solution to appear and pushed. Finally we got lucky;
While driving one day we started wondering should we stop for a meal or not. The slope in the parking place was optimal so that was the decision. Soon came charming Al Pacino-like Jaime to adore the van, he had one himself. As soon as he heard the starter trouble he started to call around his trusted mechanics for a new used one. After half an hour and many calls he located the missed spare part for Karma. And so he sent us on our way with a good dealt price, telephone number and directions how to find the Magic Mechanic.
Next day we find our way to the guy, and he appears to be a real VW bean with shop full of old classics.. In an hour we have new starter and all the other parts we asked for. Nice. The oldies VW people really are some sort of family so we have a new meeting with Samuel and his gang tomorrow, beer included.
Thank you Jaime and Samuel Cigarruista from Panama City for helping us out!
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