That’s ridiculous that insurance covered that damage. Should have told him “Sorry slapnuts but your fucked up half assed mods are the cause of the problem, claim denied and we’re dropping you”. Instead it gets covered and everyone’s rates go up just a little more to compensate for morons driving stanced cars.

$38,000 for a half assed “restoration”? Paint job wasn’t done correctly, under the hood hasn’t been detailed, and what condition are those original wheels in? Because the ones on it are awful. Considering he couldn’t be bothered to do a proper color change I can only surmise that the self leveling system works via…

Mine was failed piston rings. The first gen 2.0T was riddled with issues.

Just make sure you change your tranny fluid every 30k and don’t wait the 150k like Ford recommends.

Not shocked that SC got an F. Though I don’t think it is actually the people being rude as much as it being the fact that they are dumb as a brick and don’t have one fucking clue how to drive or even know what ‘right of way’ means. A four way stop might as well be a Rubik’s Cube to these morons.

Yup, and by the time it showed up VW wouldn’t fix it under warranty even though it was a known defect. Throwing down about $4k to fix a car worth about that much wasn’t anywhere on my list of smart things to do. So I traded it in to CarMax for $3500 and bought a used Volt.

Nothing more terrifying than taking a stupidly slow car onto the interstate. Merging will give most people panic attacks.

Don’t switch! We went from a pickup to an SUV and now if I need to haul stuff like lumber or patio furniture I have to hook a trailer up to the SUV, whereas you can just toss everything into the bed. It may not sound like a big deal, but do it a few times and you will find yourself wondering if you really need to…

4 quarts in 7k would have been a blessing in my ‘08 Passat. She started out drinking 1qt every 1k, and eventually wound up drinking 1qt every 250ish miles. Yes, you read that right. But I agree about the Subaru transmissions. Their automatics are almost comically bad.

I’ll admit this is anecdotal evidence to the contrary but evidence nonetheless. I’ve owned 4 VW’s and 1 Audi. No problems whatsoever until the last VW, which was an ‘08 Passat. Around 125k it decided that it enjoyed burning oil at a rate of about a quart every 250 miles. Other than that, no problems on any of the…

How tiny are you that the GZ was heavy and hard to stand up? You’d absolutely die trying to ride my Victory.

Just wanted to say I wish I had your job. I enjoy buying cars a lot. I used to help all of my subordinates buy cars without getting ripped off when I was in the military. You’d be amazed at some of the outright dumb shit a young enlisted person would fall for. I saw one try to buy a very used car at 24% interest,…

Oh I agree, I was just saying that Audi isn’t exactly the pillar of reliability either. If someone wants a dead reliable fun car they should import a Skyline, or maybe the F-sport series from Lexus. Other than that you’re gonna have to accept some amount of quirkiness when it comes to reliability.

Ehh, depends on the Audi. A4/5/6, sure. A7/S7/S4/S6/A8/S8? Not what I would call reliable. They may not leave you in limp mode but with all the BS stuffed into them you will be taking many trips to the dealership to have the many infuriating glitches taken care of. But you’ll get an A3 loaner so you got that going for…

If you give the seller their asking price for the vehicle then flip away. In today’s world it is way too easy to find out a ballpark value for a used car and there’s no excuse for a seller not to do it. If they are selling it dirt cheap, or free, because of a mechanical defect they don’t have the ability to diagnose…

I know this, but being from 2000 I can’t consider it an AMC era car. And Chrysler should totally have a museum dedicated to Jeep, even the AMC designed models, since Jeep is the only reason they even survived the late 80's and early 90's.

Minus the wing, that is how all STIs should look from the factory. That thing just looks mean as hell.

This truck is about 13 years after the AMC era.

Couldn’t we just solve this problem by only having 93 octane available at the pump? I mean, damn, everything runs fine on premium, and in the case of small engines, most of them recommend it. If we only needed one grade of fuel at the pumps, the price would go down due to economy of scale. And also get rid of the damn…

This is how we get the Tata Nano in the US.