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Everyone involved with that fucking 3.6 deserves to face a firing squad
Probably the cousin of the guy at VW that thought triple squares were cool.
Well it's an Opel/Vauxhall so...
Same. "Takes a 2yr trade school degree to fix what 10 yrs of college fucked up." Was the first thing I was told my first day as a machine maintenance guy at 21yo by an old dude lol.
FUCK that thermostat housing.... I had to change the one on my cruze and it has caused be all sorts of headaches... I've had it off and on about 4 times. Finally got to the point that it only leaks a tiny little bit so I just let it go and add a cup of coolant once a month.
Aside from having to buy a 1/4" set of etorx bits, and then still having to use a tiny box wrench to remove 2 of the bolts, it wasnt too bad. So far its not leaking that I can see. It just pisses me off that I had to pay $40 for a plastic thermostat.
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hahaha and it dumps oil all over the front engine mount where it'll drip for days unless you hose it off with a can of brake cleaner followed by the garden hose
Funny story about water crossings. Growing up, I lived out in the middle of nowhere and we had a low water bridge that we had to cross to get home. The culverts were always plugged because nobody important enough for the county to listen to lived out there. Water flowed over the low water bridge as a result all the time. Was never a problem until mom bought a brand new pontiac grand am in 1990. The genius engineers put the air intake right off the raidiator shroud so it could get the freshly heated air from the radiator the fans pulled through. Sure enough going through the crossing on the way home from buying it, the fans get in the water, sling it up into the intake and vapor lock that POS day 1. Dealership sends a dude out to recover it and he pulls plugs and the intake tube and spins the water out of it, plugs us back in and leaves the intake just laying in the engine compartment pointed away from the fans. I learned how stupid engineers were that day.
That too! Fuck! Break all his toes too!
Ex- had an 88 Accord DX when we first hooked up. IIRC, the alternator was bad. Had to remove the half-shaft to get it dropped out from under the back side of the engine. Could have been the starter, but I think it as the alternator. Memories fade, its been over 20 years now. I fought that thing on jack stands in the muddy grass for an entire weekend fixing it.
HaHa, bag sealers, cappers, induction sealers. 2 hours to change a fucking heater element. 9 hours for a damn load cell swap out. All the while production is running as you lay on the cold stainless steel catwalk being sure not to leave even an ounce of evidence that you were there. Fun times NOT
German cars are all a weird mix of "what the fuck" and "thats genius". I have to pull two skid plates and use an extra long 8mm hex socket to get the drain plug out of my wifes Q7 TDI. Fuel filter? Well shit, its right on top of the engine and can be done in 2 minutes. Pull two hose clamps, pull filter, put new one in, tighten. Dont even have to pull the plastic engine cover off
Wife's B5 Passat 2.0T oil filter is in a god awful position, about a 30 degree angle underneath the intake manifold, behind the boost tube, and above the transaxle case. Always a bitch and always a mess.German cars are all a weird mix of "what the fuck" and "thats genius". I have to pull two skid plates and use an extra long 8mm hex socket to get the drain plug out of my wifes Q7 TDI. Fuel filter? Well shit, its right on top of the engine and can be done in 2 minutes. Pull two hose clamps, pull filter, put new one in, tighten. Dont even have to pull the plastic engine cover off
coolant flange on the back of the head
Just failed last fall as well.
As fun as that would be, my wife has had that car a decade longer than she's had me. She loves her little German stick shift shit box, so its my job to keep it running as best I can. It only has something like 135k on it, its just all the stupid plastic shit under the hood that's disintegrating and making my life hell.
I make no bones about my Stockholm syndrome.
Something I've had success with is cutting off the corrugated plastic pcv bullshit from the quick connects and finding barbed fittings underneath. Hydraulic hose has replaced all my broken plastic shit using the factory quick connects.
