Now that I have a daughter (with a second one inbound in a couple months) and less disposable income, I have been looking for a car that has a high depreciation value already knocked off with all the luxury gizmos I have been accustomed to. The Phaeton thread from earlier sparked my interest. Have any resources I…

Not bad mate. I have to say how much I love these post on your S-Class. If I wasn't so easily frustrated, I would go for this. Stuff like this is my bread and butter. As a Master Tech with Acura for years, I acquired so many things that I could "upgrade" my drivers with. I would get parts that were queued for…

That procedure is very similar to the dash replacement procedure for an Acura TL. The major difference is that the main support structure for the entire dash needs to be separated from the bulkhead (firewall) to take the dash cover off. How long the dash take by chance?

Kudos to you on this. I have been wanting to…

This is one of the best AOTD that I have seen in quite some time because I can identify with it. So many of my friends fall into these stereotypes that I think it is not fair to wholly see that car instead of the stigma that it exudes.

I grew up in a very low income blue collar area. The F-body stereotype is the…

While I tend to agree with you about the ambiguity of the damage, I have seen cars totaled strictly for "cosmetic" damage.

I am a die hard Honda/Acura loyalist. My current daily driver is a 2010 TL SH-AWD with a 6-speed manual. That car is an absolute blast to drive. Acura made an absolutely horrible mistake with the styling of the 2009 TL. If they had the softer lines of the 2012 TL on the 2009 model we may not be having this exact…

A person is entitled to a view in favour or against anything. Case in point, American Honda had a huge issue with their 4 and 5 speed automatics in Honda Accords, Pilots, Acura CL's, TL's, and MDX's. As far as the Acuras go, the third gear clutch pack would essentially explode in the case. This would result in…

How? I lived on a farm.

I gotta say crack pipe. But before you crucify me, I'd like some final words. The NSX is one of the cars that I absolutely adore. That being said, there are many better deals out there. Many people that want to sell their NSX (and take such good care of their baby) do not use the same sites such as Autotrader…

I probably should have said this from the beginning. But yeah, it is stupid of this dealership to sue the guy. Suing a customer is probably the most bone-headed thing out of this whole debacle.

This situation requires the voice from the other side here. Many people that do not know how things play out nowadays could just be ill-informed. As I have said in other threads, I hate shady dealers. But this situation is not as cut and dry as people think.

I said the following in another comment.

Watching the cam footage, I do have some questions. When the footage starts, there are many interior components already removed and on the dash. The point where the techs start in the footage make me believe they had already done a lot of diag already. Maybe this is creative editing. Maybe it is not.

OK, I gotta chime through. For many years I worked at a dealership specializing in crazy ass weird concerns that no one else wanted to even think about. First things first, the troubleshooting that comes with ANYTHING electrical are extensive. I mean really extensive. Sometimes 30+ pages extensive. It starts with…

A buddy of mine had an old Merc oil burner. His family loved their older Merc cars. When he turned 16, they had given him a 240d after he passed his licensing test. I used to joke to him that the thing would "Get passed by a school bus. Loaded with kids. Whilst going uphill." He agreed. It happened to him once.

When I worked at a dealer as the used car tech, we brought in a stunning ES with a stick. I wanted to buy it until I inspected it. The poor thing had a sludged engine. Pity.

Guide to changing oil on a Renault Twingo.

1. Remove engine.....

Having everyone have access to TSB's will be a nightmare for dealers. When I worked for Acura, we would get people that would bring in TSB's and demand that they have them done on their car. Now, important safety ones we would take care of our customers. The vast majority, though, we could not do. There were the…

My wife works as a avionics tech/search and rescue coordinator for the US Coast Guard. She has said vehemently as well as I have that they are not looking wide enough. One of the first things they factor are fuel range/engine range. She knows how far that plane can travel and has been insisting the radius is not…

I also nominated the ZDX for the QOTD. Like you, I love the ZDX. When it first came out I hated it. But we had one as a service loaner at the Acura dealer I worked for. It had the Advance package with blind spot detection, ventilated seats, and forward radar. I needed to take it 400 miles away on a trip. The…