As a Volkswagen owner, $500 is minor.

For $25k I am pretty sure most negotiations will include the person saying ‘I know what I have’.

“Minor” = $15 hose from NAPA. $500 is NOT minor.

“Up next on ‘Who Has A Bigger Case Of PTSD’ - In the blue corner we have Manny the BMW tech who has to work on the new Alpina with the quad-turbo inline six diesel engine! And in the silver corner we have Justin the VW tech who’s been told he has to repair a Touraeg V10 TDI!”

Quad turbo? Oh the service department is going to love this.

Seriously. You know what would be cooler than a quad turbo diesel crossover? A quad turbo diesel LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE. Minivan? Cooler. Station wagon? WAY cooler. Sedan? Cooler. Traditional SUV? Cooler (and surprisingly not done yet?) Amish buggy? Cooler albeit morally ambiguous. Mobility scooter? Let’s see how…

Justin,

It may look okay from the outside but the inside looks like a goddamned ecstatic blue-eyed cartoon clown that wants to steal my soul.

I’ll be back

Goddam time-travelling robots covering their tracks!

OBO could be above asking price, technically.

He was probably on PCP. Broke every bone in his hand and wouldn’t feel it for hours.

Punching out a window is pretty impressive.

it’s a tax dodge of some sort, i don’t remember exactly. none of those cars ever set tire in montana.

Now now-give a bit of a break here. You got to remember you are talking about an old southerner here. He also stayed completly dry - never taking any money from beer or liquor sponsorship because he told his mother he wouldn’t. (Which screwed up NASCAR big time because he wouldn’t put Bud shootout stickers on his car,…

Whenever I see “FIRM” in all caps in an ad, my desire to lowball them goes up even more.

Umm, Ok.

Pretty sure it was a joke, and Obama clearly ordered GM to smog choke the car by letter from Kenya as a child.

It’s a dealer-offered car so it’s unlikely to have sawdust in the slushbox

The real fix is a PCV system that doesn’t allow the crap into the intake to get stuck on the valves in the first place - and now that DI engines are in their second and third generations that seems to be done. Having two separate injection systems is silly - double the expense, twice as many things to go wrong. I’d…