You’re the dude that did none of the project work but still got the “A”, aren’t you?

Lol.

Totally agreed.

Luckily, I’m not a customer. I do all of the work for all of my cars, including engine rebuilds and painting. The only time I send out work is for machining. Two of them are worth a fair amount and only one is less than 20 years old. Every time a “tech” has touched my cars, they fumble around like twats unless they…

The GTI is a genuinely fun and useful and relatively efficient car to drive. Despite the normal shitty VW quality on some dumb shit I have a lot of trouble envisioning another new car I’d rather have at the price point if I had to buy new.

Speed bleeder screws at all four corners and a rubber tube and a glass jar. No need for a pump. Takes ten minutes and usually I don’t even have to Jack up the car. I do this on all four of my cars including a trucks, a GTI, a 911 and Mercedes 

Dozens? Tens and tens? Crazy. 

Honestly I’m not impressed by most automotive ‘technicians’ and most manufacturers recommend flushing every few years or 20000 miles which is less than the life of a brake pad.

My bad! I didn’t realize this post was trying to push tools on professional mechanics that they probably already know about and have!

Always bleed your brakes during a brake pad change, also a good opportunity to do a full flush. And why would there be any cleanup? Do you think anyone just opens the bleeder screw and lets the fluid spray everywhere? What are you even talking about?

When was this ever hard? You loosen the bleeder screw and push with a small clamp, at WORST, and usually by hand. Boom. Why a specialized tool?

Supply impacts prices, prices drive sales. As long as there’s still one in stock, there’s enough supply. The cost of acquisition (time, price, distance) are what’s cutting into the sale of that car.

I think it’s more a general comment on how mercenary dealerships in general are. And to be honest. They are mercenary. It’s their entire business model. Not everyone is always trying to get the most money they can in every exchange. Not all prices for anything is at a real equilibrium. That would require a…

Well, it was sort of a joke. 3 tenths doesn’t really exists. But the scale is logarithmic, at the lower end - you’re already driving aggressively, and honestly if your criteria for a car is that it handle less well than anything that can be driven aggressively, maybe you’re not even in the discussion.

I think maybe you’ve got some rose colored glasses. I can’t remember when there were as many truly affordable sports cars as right now. In the early oughts, maybe the S2000 competed with the Miata, but let’s be real, the S2000 was a 30k car back when a 30k car meant something. Before that, there really wasn’t a ton…

A car that handles well at 10/10ths handles well at 3/10ths. And handling is what makes a car engaging capable. The way people measure 0-60 has nothing to do with how you drive 0-60 so yeah. The stat is meaningless.

I’d agree that chasing ring times has had an impact on engagement at the very highest levels of the product lines. But no one owns a GT2. But chasing ring times also means that a car needs to be capable on straights- in turns - at stopping and acceleration. Whereas chasing 0-60 is totally uni dimensional.

The ring is a pretty nasty track with a lot of different type of driving situations - track conditions and tarmac types. It’s pretty hard to drive well. So while the ring gets sort of overused - it’s not really a terrible standard like 0-60 or top speeds. 

I drove one of these in college once. I was shocked at how slow and heavy it felt. 

I like it. But my main issue is that if I’m buying a utilitarian cheap truck. I need it to be utilitarian and not compromised. Trucks are for hauling things and for raw material. Almost no material realistically gets bought in 4 foot lengths. 6 foot works because you can have a little hanging out the back. I feel like…