Refit huh? Sounds like they’re not just going to hit this problem with a reflash...maybe all those TDI customers won’t lose their MPG numbers if they end up refitting with a urea system or something.

Like they always say, KILL IT WITH FIRE.

You’re not seeing the reference to your name?

To think that we could’ve filled the skies with 700 beautiful F-22s...now we’re stuck with the F-35. Can we just relegate the F-35 to a strike/naval role and keep the F-22, pretty please with a cherry on top?

Ugh, this sucks. Now Subaru will never bring their Euro diesel engine here. All of the techs I know from multiple dealerships have been jonesing for one. Maybe a swap...

Good to know! I wonder if the EPA could subpoena the manufacturer for warranty and claims info though. I don’t know how VW does it, but I usually look up warranty info for Subaru before I perform a recall.

States with emissions laws are likely to just fail you on the emissions test if you don’t get the recall. OBDII has plenty of access to ECM information.

I do not, but you do spend a lot of time exposed to said fumes. You don’t have to be directly in the path of the exhaust to inhale it. Especially when diagnosing an exhaust leak. Which happens a lot in rustbelt states.

You know what sucks? Having to be a Volkswagen technician being slowly poisoned by supposedly clean vehicles. I mean, I’m not a VW tech but I feel bad for my brothers in arms.

As of right now, he is a magnet for trouble. Before the Arab Spring, yes, he was just another dictator in the ME. But Pandora’s Box has already been opened and this is what we’re facing now. What a mess.

No I think he meant that statement to liken Assad to a magnet for trouble, but in this case, foreign fighters to oppose him.

I just calculate my mpg increases by percentage of increase. Like 20 mpg to 30mpg is a 50% increase. But then again, there are a lot of people out there who aren’t good with percentages...

Nuevo-California?

Our biggest enemy isn’t Russia, it’s our own bureaucracy.

As a Subaru technician, I too can confirm that customers ask us to put their license plates on too.

Not if they’re using the OBDII dongle to gain access. The very nature of OBDII is to monitor the emissions related components of the vehicle, it’s required by federal law.

Subaru tech here. A lot of our buybacks go to training centers for use in technician schooling. And some of these “unfixable” problems are rattles and squeaks that come from the owner previously driving a BMW and expecting a Subaru to be as quiet as a tomb.

I have fine tuned my ability to park and move cars in close quarters through the experience of working at a dealership where there are no provisions for employee parking. Parallel park a Subaru Outback and pull it back out of a spot 2 spaces deep? Entirely possible.

Ha, I don’t have the type of personality it takes to be a YouTube personality, unfortunately. I definitely don’t mind giving people advice though.

Not really on your resume, but the whole public perception of dealership employees is pretty poor as a whole. People tend to automatically assume we’re dishonest because of stories like the one above and other “stealership” stories. Bad guys get press, good guys go unnoticed kind of thing.