I didn’t include it because I didn’t want this to run too long, but being an owner, he still had access to the Tesla app. In one of the instances of him getting a “service completed” reminder, he did a locater ping through the Tesla app to see where the Model X was. It was sitting just 11 miles away in a salvage yard.…

Neither one is perfect, in fact, they both suck.  

Their other products, they have some shitty practices for installs. Like with their battery backup, they will default place it outdoors but if you want to move it (indoors or to a more secure spot) it automatically jacks up prices by 2k per change.

Yea, they seem to quietly do a lot of things like raising prices and removing/adding things that don’t always benefit the customers. There are so many things that can happen via dealer or direct sales model, I just find it funny when someone thinks either way is perfect. 

It gets worse when you see that Tesla quietly removed the return policy eight months after he purchased his Model X. Anyone that wanted to return a Tesla after that just got directed to some customer service rep.

Where are all the “direct sales will save us all” folks? Tesla literally says you can return the car without an issue, but wrote in an arbitration clause so you can’t do it easily.

Dilutes your drink? I got nothing.

What were they thinking?

Because Florida Man, a.k.a Homo Erectus Floridus, is not know for it’s high functions intelligence. Scientist as still baffled how the species has managed to survive this long, especially with the large influx of elderly foreign species encroaching onto it’s territory.

Signs and all, it seems like it would be pretty easy to install a barrier of some sort that prevents boats from getting pulled into the machinery. You could feasibly have your boat break down and get sucked into this thing.

It’s easy to blame the boaters because, well they look like a bunch of chuckleheads and because it’s Florida. But honestly that’s a pretty poor design that doesn’t incorporate some kind of safety system to prevent anyone from being that close, and that doesn’t have some kind of sensor or camera to warn the bridge…

It has a taste for boaters now.

A Florida wildlife officer will put the bridge down. It has a taste for boaters now.

I put my snow tires on mid-November and take them off late March/early April. That’s when we get snow more often in upstate NY. I don’t have them mounted on rims. It costs about $100 - $120 for tires to be mounted, balanced and installed esch time.

My 2015 Passat is doing well just hit 40k miles and it has been flawless so far. Changed my perception on German cars and making me consider a GTI for when I can afford to get something fun.

I was reading about the GR Yaris last night, and apparently there’s a basic version of it as well. The RZ is the one we all know, but then there’s the RS. It has the same body, and that’s about it. Instead of the amazing AWD system, the RS is FWD, comes with a smaller NA three cylinder, and then a fucking CVT

An absolute shit-ton of aftermarket parts were available to turn these cars into monsters. Taking one look at it, you realize why almost nobody ever did.

In the late 80s you could pick up low mileage X-11s all day for under $1000. Still wasn’t worth it.

Yup, we got the dopey 2.3 turbo that was ancient.  Euro got the sweet Cologne V6.  I drove both and the Euro was awesome to drive. Same handling in the 2.3 turbo but way too laggy.  My buddy owned a used one in the US and shit was falling apart all over the place on it. He shipped it to his family in Peru since it was…

It also included lowered and stiffer suspension, different gear ratios, flat-bottom steering wheel, different fascias, seats, etc. So, not, not just black wheels. But also not a ton else either.