I don’t even live in NJ & I want that fucking plate

She’s replaceable.

I’ve read good thing about the Carista option but never played with one, since I have the VCDS sitting in my trunk at all times, but this is also a good option to give people. Shill away! I got no skin in it.

Sadly, no. Pittsburgh.

I love that billet aluminum oil filter housing for my 2.5L. I had to wait like an extra 18 months after the one for the 2.0T was introduced for the 2.5L version to come out, but it was the best investment ever since that cheap plastic piece of garbage was one extra 1/4 turn from cracking & leaving me with a big gaping…

SHOULD is the optimal word there. You think VW is gonna throw away being able to charge you that $80-$120 diagnosis fee every time you bring it in for a VAG-specific engine code? HA!! For the cost of 3 diagnosis from your dealership, you can have your own VCDS system that you can pull out whenever you want. And that…

The VIM brand set are pretty good. I keep a set of them in the storage tray of my Rabbit at all times just in case. FYI, you also need these if you are ever going to pull the front seats out for any reason. And if you ever need to take the axle bolt off the front, it may require a triple-square socket set. Titan makes…

The Bentley Manual and the Vag-Com are the 2 investments every VW/Audi owner should make the minute they take the car off the lot if they have any plans on doing literally ANY home wrenching at any point in the life of their car. Tho I don’t mind taking $10 off someone for doing a quick VAG-Com diagnosis on their car…

“German Engineered”... the thing is, they omitted the rest of the sentence, which is “to be in the fucking way”

You learned a shitty lesson, but the lesson is that the first tool that you buy for an about 2005 and up VW or Audi is the Vag-Com. And only the Ross-Tech version. The cheapo Chinese versions don’t work worth a fuck.

Not really my car but my roommate. She has what you may call ungodly bad luck with cars. But only her own. In the 7 years we’ve lived together, she’s on her 5th car.

That SUCKS!

Driving tracked vehicles on paved roads probably doesn’t really leave a lot of room for error or give terribly good traction. Especially if they’re driving in a way as to not wreck the fucking pavement by letting it eat into it with those tracks.

If there’s such a thing as car Karma, you earned a shitload of it with this.

Also, the Obamacare one... god... it might be toast but it looks like it’s getting replaced with something equally shitty, so I don’t even know if that counts, since it’s just getting replaced with something that’s virtually the same, but maybe slightly less fucked in a few areas and more fucked in other areas. So who…

That’s a valid point about those targeted taxes not expanding beyond the state, however a state & a city aren’t exactly the same when it comes to their black & white borders. States borders don’t change. City borders change over time as the cities grow. And what is only for “central London” now can very easily become…

Basically the entirety of human history shows that slippery slopes are real. And even in civilizations where the public can push back, all it takes is some asshole taking a Trump-like method of negotiation (sit your ass down on a really extreme demand, “negotiate” for a “fair compromise” that’s still way the shit down…

I never said that it was substandard. I simply stated that it wasn’t “improving” it. It’s making 1 thing worst in order to make another thing more appealing by comparison. The person I replied to said that this was making public transportation more appealing when it really wasn’t. It was simply making something the…

The problem is the precedent that this type of program sets. If it causes congestion to decrease in any measurable way, it’ll be a win for gov’t. If it just increases tax revenue, it’s a win for gov’t. If it forces more people onto public transit, it increases revenue and grows the public sector workforce & probably a…

Except this isn’t about making public transportation better. It’s about making the 1st choice of people worse. If any of this actually made public transportation better, then it wouldn’t be so fucking dumb. But it’s just about making the alternative worse while changing nothing about the public transportation quality.