I don’t know that the average idiot would be able to work out setting time delays directly. I had always assumed that the sensitivity adjustments changed both how much light or lack thereof is required to trip the system and the various interlock times. For what it’s worth, I’ve always found the “medium” setting…

I have! It was a trip.

“Louder than stock” is stupid precisely because it means there’s no standard to judge against and is meaningless. A sports car with a stock exhaust can be louder at idle than some cars at WOT, but a car with an aftermarket exhaust that’s louder than stock but still quieter than the sports car is worth of a $1000 fine?…

Absolutely. This practice is literally nothing more than a shakedown with a label stuck on it that says “stawping krymze lul” written in crayon.

Can you not adjust the automatic headlight sensitivity? I admit that anecdotes are not evidence, but every car I’ve driven with automatic headlights has had an adjustment for the sensitivity.

This is a perfect example of why you should conduct yourself like everyone else on the road is a monkey suffering from a hypoxic brain injury. They often act like they are.

Seriously. The requirements here are basically:

It might not be the worst, but the recent law gone into effect in NY that makes it so if you have an aftermarket exhaust of any kind that’s louder than stock, you can be fined $1000. Just louder than stock. Doesn’t matter that some cars are louder than others and that they all had to meet DOT regulations in regards to…

Maybe that’s what the focus groups say the Chads who will buy these actually want. The built-not-bought look but without the effort.

Touché.

My first guess is that it would have been in “Cocaine County,” but that would work too.

Just because something has a timing chain doesn’t mean it’s timing system is reliable. Just ask VAG, BMW, and Ford to name a few.

I absolutely loved the idea of that particular S4 Avant, especially with a stick and in that color. I can’t remember anything at the moment that was more of a boner-killer than learning about the timing chain guides on that engine.

That’s a good question. I’d image a lot of cars are lease trade-ins, so they’d have probably between 20 and 40k on them. It seems like a lot of used cars on dealer lots tended to have around 60k on them, but I don’t know if that’s average or if that’s just what they didn’t send directly to auction. But yeah, in the…

Tell them you’d be happy too. For a fee of 15%.

No test drives without financing or cash-in-hand? Fuck that guy in the neck. I’m not going through the complex process of arranging financing to buy something I don’t know that I actually want. They have insurance to cover damage from joyriders. If I ever hear that from a salesman, it’ll take every ounce of my self…

This is especially egregious considering that the dealer is providing almost no value to your transaction. All they’re doing is some paperwork and providing someplace for the car to get dropped off and unwrapped. If they don’t deserve to make $20k to factory order a Malibu, file your paperwork, receive it from the…

People needing the new shiny right now has always been a problem. You’re right that people need to take a cold shower and relax, but there’s hardly anything available for a fair price at this point. There’s a ton of pent up demand and no supply. I’m not convinced that the number of stupid people who want new cars and…

Seriously. My brother recently was forced to buy another car as his current one got totaled. We went to a Ford dealer to look at the Maverick and see if maybe one could be tracked down. The only one that they had was one that actually belonged to one of the sales guys and he was letting people test drive it. Not sure…

Also, I’m seeing quite a few comments about how people bought cars without driving them or even having seen them first and it having gone fine. Friends, I would like to introduce you to my friend Survivorship Bias. He maintains that just because you did a dangerous thing and got away with it does not mean it wasn’t…