My ‘91 had all that! Heady times…

Oh, I didn’t realize this was a separate application on an actual computer. Seems dumb you’d have to bring something like that to bear to change a setting you’d think would be available right in the truck’s infotainment computer thing.

I definitely agree that you shouldn’t have to use an app to change a setting like that. What happens when they can’t be bothered to maintain that app anymore? What happens when they sunset the technology they use to talk to it, say 3G dying this summer? It’s a hot mess of bad planning on their part simply to look…

I don’t know that the average idiot would be able to work out setting time delays directly. I had always assumed that the sensitivity adjustments changed both how much light or lack thereof is required to trip the system and the various interlock times. For what it’s worth, I’ve always found the “medium” setting…

I have! It was a trip.

“Louder than stock” is stupid precisely because it means there’s no standard to judge against and is meaningless. A sports car with a stock exhaust can be louder at idle than some cars at WOT, but a car with an aftermarket exhaust that’s louder than stock but still quieter than the sports car is worth of a $1000 fine?…

Absolutely. This practice is literally nothing more than a shakedown with a label stuck on it that says “stawping krymze lul” written in crayon.

Can you not adjust the automatic headlight sensitivity? I admit that anecdotes are not evidence, but every car I’ve driven with automatic headlights has had an adjustment for the sensitivity.

This is a perfect example of why you should conduct yourself like everyone else on the road is a monkey suffering from a hypoxic brain injury. They often act like they are.

Seriously. The requirements here are basically:

It might not be the worst, but the recent law gone into effect in NY that makes it so if you have an aftermarket exhaust of any kind that’s louder than stock, you can be fined $1000. Just louder than stock. Doesn’t matter that some cars are louder than others and that they all had to meet DOT regulations in regards to…

Maybe that’s what the focus groups say the Chads who will buy these actually want. The built-not-bought look but without the effort.

Touché.

My first guess is that it would have been in “Cocaine County,” but that would work too.

Just because something has a timing chain doesn’t mean it’s timing system is reliable. Just ask VAG, BMW, and Ford to name a few.

I absolutely loved the idea of that particular S4 Avant, especially with a stick and in that color. I can’t remember anything at the moment that was more of a boner-killer than learning about the timing chain guides on that engine.

That’s a good question. I’d image a lot of cars are lease trade-ins, so they’d have probably between 20 and 40k on them. It seems like a lot of used cars on dealer lots tended to have around 60k on them, but I don’t know if that’s average or if that’s just what they didn’t send directly to auction. But yeah, in the…

Tell them you’d be happy too. For a fee of 15%.

No test drives without financing or cash-in-hand? Fuck that guy in the neck. I’m not going through the complex process of arranging financing to buy something I don’t know that I actually want. They have insurance to cover damage from joyriders. If I ever hear that from a salesman, it’ll take every ounce of my self…

This is especially egregious considering that the dealer is providing almost no value to your transaction. All they’re doing is some paperwork and providing someplace for the car to get dropped off and unwrapped. If they don’t deserve to make $20k to factory order a Malibu, file your paperwork, receive it from the…