I would think that it would be in VW’s interest to hire an independent lab to certify that it’s fixes work. The cost of testing should be negligable to them, if it works they can shout it from the rooftops and point to a respected independent lab, and if it doesn’t they have a chance to try something else before they…

3d printing does have great potential in manufacturing if materials can improve and multi materials become common place. If you could, for example, print conductors directly into your housing, thus eliminating wiring harnesses, 30 minute print times become rather reasonable (assuming the housing can be made…

It depends on how the production operation is structured, but yes, per piece costs could well be as low as you are saying. I was trying to make my case using more conservative numbers, where the pieces would be molded by a small shop that wasn’t very good at what they do.

Visions of the future aside, it’s a terrible idea. If you were to mold this part conventionally, you’re looking at a $20k-$75k in tooling costs, and $0.25-$5.00 per part costs, with a cycle time of well under a minute (the trade off will be at how many parts the tool produces at a time, the more parts, the more…

No Fairlady?

If I read that joke right, it’s really in poor taste.

The braided sheath is there to protect the inner hose from abrasion, such as where the line might be rubbing against the body on every single bump you pass over. It’s not the best way to do things, which is why you don’t see these on newer cars, but it is reasonably good at what its designed to do.

Obviously, having armor is better than not having armor. But if you look at the non-zero population who want to have some protection, but refuse to compromize their look and comfort (which we could well disagree on being the wrong priority, but we aren’t about to convince them otherwise) than this offers them just…

It’s less about making the suspension lighter, and more about making a lighter frame.

Even at $125/wheel, you must be using some very cheap tires for that to double the replacement costs.

Many had the screen built into the rearview mirror. When you’re not in reverse, you can’t tell its there.

Doubled? A set of tires runs around $1k, and they charge me $20-$50 for whatever they have to do to the sensors.

If you were doing the skimming, and had only one unit to install, would you put it on the diesel pump, or the gas one?

Yes, thankfully. If you look further up, Holmer suggest that we start making them so that you won’t be able to.

Trying to think of the last automatic car I drove... Wait still thinking.. hmm. Nope. Forget it, I’m not the right person to ask about these things, I still row my own gears. And as one of those old school, row my gears, make my own coffee, get off my lawn types, I want to be able to turn my stuff off. Like the fuck…

Love that meme!

What was the point in the auto headlights in american cars from that era? I always thought the idea behind auto headlights was to improve aero, so what’s the point in the non aero covers? Is it just to keep the bugs off?

Taking an engine out of gear wont blow the engine, it will just bounce off the limiter for a while. That’s not great for the engine, but it isn’t catastrophic. However, automatic transmission wont always let you take it out of gear, or at least don’t make it obvious that you can.

Because sometimes throttles stick.

How do you go about desiging a component to fail after such a high number of miles? It sounds much more difficult than designing one not to fail.