Is that why so many people like american cars and dislike german here? Because they're easy to work with?

Aside from oil change/air filter/blah blah simple stuff, I've taken everything to the shop. Figured it's way cheaper in the long run to pay someone else and have them take full liability for anything that breaks from the "repair," then if I fix it myself and "mess up" and cost myself an arm/leg to fix it

Depends on how confident you are in yourself I guess. It's far cheaper to do ANY repair to your own vehicle than it is to take it to someone. The price is C.O.P (cost of parts) for doing it yourself and C.O.P. + Markup + Labor to have someone else do it.

New american vehicles are no easier to work on than german cars IMO. They all suck and require to mechanic to be a 13 year old video gamer or a nuclear scientist in order to work on the damn things.

I miss the days of mechanical parts, carb'd small blocks, and manual transmissions.

That is a different level of simple.


Here is a good example from this very week.

My brother in law has a 2003 jetta. He calls me saying the transmission is acting funny. I pull the codes and among the several i find there is a VSS (vehicle speed sensor) code. I can't check the fluid level in the trans because there isn't a dipstick. VW has a special tool that gets inserted in place of a certain bolt and hooks up to VAG COM (VW's proprietary scan tool). So i do some reading and find the trans has 3 speed sensors and only one can put it in limp mode. The car appeared to be in limp mode. It was stuck in 2nd gear and generally acting stupid. I order the sensor. Then i learn that the engine and trans has to be unbolted and lowered away from the trans mount just to get to the sensor. It's ridiculous "just because" engineering that makes them hard to work on, and expensive to have worked on.




Some of us are very competent mechanics. German companies design things to be difficult on purpose. It is job security for their service departments. Their labor rates are higher too. There is a reason most private service shops don't work on them.

Generally speaking they are good cars to buy new or like new and sell when the warranty runs out.

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is it short?

my toy

mmm hell ya
ls1 or 2?

rims need to go asap



assuming the hood is factory ls2

Yeah it's an 06 so LS2 of course.

The rims piss me off, they came with the car and are really too big for the wells (19") but they shiny I guess .

Planning on doing a suspension upgrade here in the next months so I'll probably swap them out around the same time.

The big kicker was the 17k original miles that came on it, I've got it up to around 20k now but it's still so young

19s are fine, those specific ones are just heavy and ugly.



Really 19s are probably the best size for those cars for looks.