Car rant

[dyresand]

But..but.. ze German engineering.. is good ja?
What about ze audi?

[popeyespappy]

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

I feel your pain. I'm gathering the parts and tools to do a cam swap on my Harley. This will require pulling the push rods. Pulling the push rods requires removing the rocker covers and partially disassembling the lifters. That requires removing the fuel tank. Or I can cut the old push rods out with a pair of bolt cutters and replace them $180 new adjustable ones that can be inserted from the bottom.

[Hoopington]

Hang on....are you actually complaining about a 15 year old car having a mechanical problem?

Or was it a typo and you meant 15 months?

I gathered that his complaint was not that a 15-year-old car was having mechanical problems, but rather that the difficulty of doing the repair was a major source of frustration. Of course, I've had my coffee.

Aaah, I see. Well, I have about as much mechanical sympathy as a labrador puppy, so will never understand that kind of problem.

[SteelCurtain]

Steel,

I'm responsible for the new q series OEM brake calipers (2015+) at my company, So I could get you pads and calipers if you'll just buy a new one..

I'm rocking the 1999, son. No way can I afford a new Audi. Plus, high end luxury cars are for people that take their car to the shop for everything. I only take mine to the shop for major repairs. Everything else I like to do myself. Never again. My next car will be a Subaru.

Hang on....are you actually complaining about a 15 year old car having a mechanical problem?

Or was it a typo and you meant 15 months?

I gathered that his complaint was not that a 15-year-old car was having mechanical problems, but rather that the difficulty of doing the repair was a major source of frustration. Of course, I've had my coffee.

^This. I expect problems with this car. I just don't expect the standard solution for a middling mechanical repair to be "Step 1, remove the entire front end of the vehicle." I suspect it is this way because either 1) Germans don't work on their own cars or 2) VW/Audi wants to make sure you have to take your car to their shop for repairs.

Either way I'm having no more of it. I'm going back to the Japanese.