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Mr. Mindless said:
My allroad should have breakdown triangles. of all the cars to have them missing from... yeah, they were gone. probably used too often and wore out 😂

brought home the Z4, I'm in love, even with the dumb transmission and little engine.
Unfortunately the top issue was a failed drive on the latch actuator motor. the drive axles are missing and so is the transmission. Motor was good but I can see where bushings failed and it was chewing the housing, so I'm shopping. All the trim plastics at the front of roof and top of windscreen are crunched up too. a whole top may not be a bad way to go for the cost of the pieces if I can't find a local parts car.
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and I hate sunroofs, fuck a convertible.

my mother has a new beetle convertible and I dread the day she calls me and it's stuck.
 
87manche said:
go work on anything modern and tell me how the krauts are worse.

I dare you to change the battery in a new ford escape. They put that shit under the wiper cowl.
you know where the germans put it? In the fucking trunk where it belongs and you only need a ten mm socket to undo it.
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Funny, the last one I had to remove the wiper cowl to get at the battery was a Passat. Two dumbs don't make a smart.
 
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My buddy got stranded in his new Jeep the other day.

Apparently when the fuel mileage changes too much it goes into limp mode. :lmao:
He had his little 7x12 cargo trailer and it dumped his fuel mileage from 28 to 14, and made it to the middle of nowhere (most of Montana really) before giving him fits.

After a tow to the dealer, they determined his hitch was aftermarket (it has a U-Haul sticker...) and because he couldn't engage tow/haul mode it was going to keep doing it.

The fix? $1200 in computer diagnostics and programming.:laughing:
 
87manche said:
go work on anything modern and tell me how the krauts are worse.

I dare you to change the battery in a new ford escape. They put that shit under the wiper cowl.
you know where the germans put it? In the fucking trunk where it belongs and you only need a ten mm socket to undo it.
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Airbox out, pop the front of the battery box out and it comes right out. Need a 7 or 8mm for the intake boot depending on the year and a 10mm for the rest. It's a 15 minute battery if you're slow. I work on modern cars every day, they're all shit but I'd rather work on American ones.

VW/Audi just need to stop inflicting their awful cars on the buying public. Benz and BMW aren't terrible but the lack of service info from BMW is really annoying.
 
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TrikeKid said:
Airbox out, pop the front of the battery box out and it comes right out. Need a 7 or 8mm for the intake boot depending on the year and a 10mm for the rest. It's a 15 minute battery if you're slow. I work on modern cars every day, they're all shit but I'd rather work on American ones.

VW/Audi just need to stop inflicting their awful cars on the buying public. Benz and BMW aren't terrible but the lack of service info from BMW is really annoying.
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fuck dude even getting the filter box back together is a 30 minute job, it's like the plastic they used shrunk after they installed it in the car so once you take the screws out they no longer line up
 
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fuck dude even getting the filter box back together is a 30 minute job, it's like the plastic they used shrunk after they installed it in the car so once you take the screws out they no longer line up
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I don't take those apart unless it's due by miles/age for a filter, stupid fucking design.
 
subybaja said:
Funny, the last one I had to remove the wiper cowl to get at the battery was a Passat. Two dumbs don't make a smart.
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like I said, I prefer BMW's insanity.
TrikeKid said:
VW/Audi just need to stop inflicting their awful cars on the buying public. Benz and BMW aren't terrible but the lack of service info from BMW is really annoying.
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after you steal the BMW software it's all in ISTA.

aczlan said:
A Volkswagen triangle? I can look next time I am at the junkyard, they are usually there.

Aaron Z
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a BMW one.
They're like $20 on ebay so it's more a refusal to do business with the assholes that take them than anything else.
 
just install these bolts.
that's what the book says.
if ever there were a time for an etorx bolt this was it. I could have just used a wrench.
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87manche said:
go work on anything modern and tell me how the krauts are worse.

I dare you to change the battery in a new ford escape. They put that shit under the wiper cowl.
you know where the germans put it? In the fucking trunk where it belongs and you only need a ten mm socket to undo it.
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Obviously you have never put a battery in one of these piles.

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Every time I work on that thing I find something new that makes me hate the engineers just a little more.
 
bdkw1 said:
Obviously you have never put a battery in one of these piles.



Every time I work on that thing I find something new that makes me hate the engineers just a little more.
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My mother has owned 2 new beetles.

Which is why I prefer BMW insanity over VAG insanity.
 
Anything Chrysler. What kind of asshole puts a battery inside the inner fender?

Have to remove the passenger side engine mount and lift the engine, or pull the radiator, to replace a alternator on a Saturn Vue XR. Glad I got rid of that POS.
 
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BDK said:
Anything Chrysler. What kind of asshole puts a battery inside the inner fender?

Have to remove the passenger side engine mount and lift the engine, or pull the radiator, to replace a alternator on a Saturn Vue XR. Glad I got rid of that POS.
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The Beetle combines all those traits and more.

Alternator? Remove front clip or bash a few things.

Battery? Under fuse box and half way under the fender. Must remove lots of shit to get it out.

Gas door solenoid? Behind a rear panel that to remove you have to start at the front of the car and remove half the interior on that side. Or, you just break shit.

Sunroof drains? We just covered those.
 
bdkw1 said:
The Beetle combines all those traits and more.

Alternator? Remove front clip or bash a few things.

Battery? Under fuse box and half way under the fender. Must remove lots of shit to get it out.

Gas door solenoid? Behind a rear panel that to remove you have to start at the front of the car and remove half the interior on that side. Or, you just break shit.

Sunroof drains? We just covered those.
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Tell me about it ..
Mrs roundhouse has owned a tdi 5 speed beetle for the last 15 years.
it is now 20 years old and has 250k
On the clock .
Getting harder to find a tdi guru to change the timing belt.
 
deadmeat said:
Can someone tell me why the fuck you need to remove the intake manifold to change half the spark plugs on a Dodge 3.6 pentasutar engine?

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Try that in a mini-van. :lmao:

Changed them out in my Wife's '14 Grand Caravan. I had 9 year old daughter out there with me so she could learn. Only took 1.5 hours total. That was with a lot of starting/stopping to explain to her what things are (when she asked) and how things work. It wasn't that bad. Then again, I think LT1 and LS1 F-bodies were much worst. Especially LT1 plugs.
 
87manche said:
and I hate sunroofs, fuck a convertible.

my mother has a new beetle convertible and I dread the day she calls me and it's stuck.
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Or those dumb rear side window regulators shit the bed halfway up.
 
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TRINDU said:
I dont know if you have any mental or physical ailments...

But even a retard can change a TDI belt. People act like timing belts are voodoo.
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werd
the PD and CR belts are a little wierder than the older ones though
if its an ALH like it should be then it's dirt simple with no special tools needed
 
roundhouse said:
Tell me about it ..
Mrs roundhouse has owned a tdi 5 speed beetle for the last 15 years.
it is now 20 years old and has 250k
On the clock .
Getting harder to find a tdi guru to change the timing belt.
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Is the pump leaking yet? I'm about to attempt a reseal on this one, it's leaking pretty bad.

The motors and manual trans in these are fucking bullet proof. The rest of the car was put together by the bean counters and it shows.
 
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bdkw1 said:
Is the pump leaking yet? I'm about to attempt a reseal on this one, it's leaking pretty bad.
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the injection pumps are dirt simple to reseal, no real adjustments to do other than the topcover's position
you got a scan tool that'll read the injected quantity? that makes setting the topcover in the right spot a fair bit easier

when you're cranking the pump head back down onto the pump body be real careful that it goes down square, real easy to break the 10mm thick pump plunger off, it's way hard and therefore way brittle
 
I don't think my Horrible freight scanner does that. I have a cable and a bootleg copy of the vagcom software shit but have never used it. Soooooo.
 
bdkw1 said:
The Beetle combines all those traits and more.

Alternator? Remove front clip or bash a few things.

Battery? Under fuse box and half way under the fender. Must remove lots of shit to get it out.

Gas door solenoid? Behind a rear panel that to remove you have to start at the front of the car and remove half the interior on that side. Or, you just break shit.

Sunroof drains? We just covered those.
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don't forget they eat evap canisters because the fuel neck is all fucky angled.

and wiring that was too short to the AC compressor so the wires break.

and that time I had to take the whole dashboard apart to diagnose the headlamps.

and those fucking stupid locking insertable headlamps. Oh you hit a pothole? Let me turn this light off for you.

It needs the damned window frames adjusted too, because the drivers window has a 1/16th gap to the seal.

fuck. a. convertible.

bdkw1 said:
I don't think my Horrible freight scanner does that. I have a cable and a bootleg copy of the vagcom software shit but have never used it. Soooooo.
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worth it.
 
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bdkw1 said:
Is the pump leaking yet? I'm about to attempt a reseal on this one, it's leaking pretty bad.

The motors and manual trans in these are fucking bullet proof. The rest of the car was put together by the bean counters and it shows.
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I replaced the o ring
Used some kit that you use a bolt or drill bit or something , it’s been a while back , I don’t remember exactly,
But it wasn’t too hard , requires a mirror , that part I remember .
 
BDK said:
Anything Chrysler. What kind of asshole puts a battery inside the inner fender?
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I dunno, that might be hit or miss with them. I had a 3rd gen ram 2500, quite possibly the easiest truck I've ever worked on under the hood.

Insane chronic electrical issues, sure. But the shade tree nut/bolt stuff seemed on point.
 
bdkw1 said:
Obviously you have never put a battery in one of these piles.

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Every time I work on that thing I find something new that makes me hate the engineers just a little more.
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BIL picked up a non-running beetle with some undiagnosed electrical issues to fix up for my nieces first car. He spent a few months getting it running. Promptly sold it because he wanted no more.
 
Chrysler Jeep, and their Dana 35 rear wheel bearings where the inner race is the axle shaft.

Dumb bastards saved $.30 per side, and now I've got to spend $200 for Richmond garbage, or $320 for Spicer...which is out of stock because someone got a cough. Instead of $40 for a couple real wheel bearings.

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Not mine:

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