Jason, an article about turning back a Ferrari’s odometer and not a single reference to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? For shame.

What’s a Fiesta without a few well-Countoured Escorts and a good Tempo? You can’t blame an Elite Executive for living on the Edge like a Maverick once in a while. I hope he’s able to regain Focus and Landau on his feet, so this doesn’t Granada his whole career.

Yeah $1,000 makes complete sense to do it yourself. Unfortunately the more cylinders the more work it is and with the TSI VW engines it’s very easy to access the intake valves. I just didn’t have access to a blaster & walnuts to do it once the misfire codes started popping up.

I’m here in Grand Rapids, MI there’s a reputable family shop that only works on euro cars. Any repairs out of my relm or ones that required special tools I brought to them. Was recommended by a friend who knows the lead VW tech there. Beats going to the VW dealership and paying $100+/hr for labor and given the run…

Those were almost spotless to start! Barely any buildup compared to the typical horror story pictures. Good to see that the PCV system on that engine is doing its job as well as can be expected.

Yet another reason among many to not buy an Audi then. Early DI BMWs seem to need it every 75K, later ones seem to be well over 100K, the latest are probably 150K+, if ever. Technology marches on. I likely won’t own my ‘17 GTI long enough to care even if VW has not improved thiers, and I only put 5K a year on it…

Sure, but then that’s solved by design. On simple GDI it doesn’t really matter how hot you get it, or how much fuel goes through it - no wash effect means it’s irrelevant.

is the direct connection between the oil pan and the intake,

Cool. No, they did everything right, you’re spot on, absolutely. Hope you’re never in this situation yourself.

I’m not absolving the city/state from blame, either, but there’s just something fucked about just standing around and not doing anything to help the situation.

Love when news crews film car after car getting destroyed rather than trying to warn drivers of the impending damage and be decent humans by possibly preventing it.

So...they stood around watching while nineteen people in a not-so-high-income part of Detroit suffered triple-digit (if not more) losses to their private property instead of, oh, I don’t know, parking their fucking news van somewhere it fucking BLOCKED the fucking pot hole? Or lighting fucking flares? Or putting…

A redline a day keeps the carbon deposits at bay.

Depends on where you go to have it done. I recently had the carbon cleaned off the valves of my TSI Jetta and it was about $250. No great but also not terrible, having seen the before and after pictures though it was worth $250 to me. Keep in mind this was the first time they were cleaned in 100K. I’ve seen quotes all…

These guys more than likely have other railroad-related duties, i.e., station agent, bathroom attendant, etc. and this is just another thankless aspect of their job description.

Wasn’t there a posting on Jalopnik in the last few years with the V10 and using a Lamborghini exhaust for a even louder sound? Probably would sound awesome but the S6 V10 sounds great. A guy at my kid’s old daycare had one and it was mean sounding. Over the course of 1.5-2 years he had the S6, C63 AMG and then…

oh man I completely forgot about the V10 S Audis

Right fucking spot on. Ever since that correspondents dinner in 2011 I think where O made a joke about Trump and the birther stuff, and Trump is just sitting there with a dead look in his eye plotting his revenge, thinking to himself ‘I will undo everything you hold dear’. That guy has no fucking sense of humor…

I’m not sure why we continue to look for rational justification for anything Trump does, when it’s clear that his only motivation is sheer spite for the brown guy who previously held the office.

I have a V10 Audi S6 which is not any less reliable than its German contemporaries. The V10 itself is known to be bulletproof but you do get little issues that end up costing more than you think they should. It sounds amazing and (I hope) is at or near the bottom of the depreciation curve now - they can be found in…