You win!

That’s wut she said...

“I am well aware, having done a few myself.”

It’s not the chain you have to worry about on these cars it’s the guides. Maintain oil properly and that isn’t an issue.

While the chain would require an engine out scenario, it is not a maintenance item. The chain should last the life if the engine. It’s the guides you have to worry about.

All those parts prices are for suckers. Every one of the parts is available for probably half that or less and most ppl with car smarts can do the jobs. For non-car ppl they aren’t the best choice, that much is true, but for anyone who has done even a minor repair and has a metric toolkit they are very do-able.

So many Audi haters. It’s a VOLKSWAGEN. If you so called ‘car guys’ can’t fix a Volkswagen you’re not real Jalops. Yeah, so they have a million plastic sensors and gremlins that require the occasional sorting, but the style and thrill they provide is worth it. My mk1 TT is a motherfucking trooper at 170k and the B5 A4…

Guess I’m a doofus😃

Kinda makes me wish there was a confederate statue in, say, Detroit that was being removed (I know, makes no sense) so the nazis and alt-righters would get their asses stomped into the concrete by a big black mob. They don’t dare do this shit in all black cities, they go to places where they will face at best, crowds…

Obligatory :

I’m still grappling with the idea of factory turbos in American pony cars. Still seems so foreign to me.

Hmm I wanna NP because e30...but OPP...so CP, sadly.

I beg to differ. I had an 87 e30 and it was fucking bomb proof (I can’t say bulletproof because it was shot once under the driver side rear window not long after I bought it and the bullet lodged in the headrest lol).  Others agree and is one reason e30s are so popular today.

Similar experience here circa 1978 or 79. Stepdad had a 75 or so Duster. I was maybe 8. Trip to Florida before we moved here. Stopped at the old roadside attrsction on 301 north of Gainesville with the gators on site and the plastic juice filled orange with the green curly straw. Melted crayons were discovered in rear…

Circa 1995. 1967 non-bug eye Sprite (Midget twin). 2 lane country road at @60mph. Garbage truck passes going opposite direction at speed. Blew me off the road sideways and I came to a stop perfectly between 2 large pine trees with 6 to 8 inches to spare front and back. Hand of God shit. It took several large men to…

Boo. Fuck that boring POS.

Ok. Your car and your money.

Clutches be ‘spensive, yo!

Wow tldr

You’re clearly an intelligent person but judging by how prolific a contributor you are on this thread alone it would appear you have wayyyy too much free time.