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| Golf GTI / R / R32 |
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196 | 0.02% |
| Impreza WRX / STi |
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| Mazdaspeed 3 |
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| Veloster Turbo |
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| Focus ST |
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149 | 0.01% |
| Other Hot Hatch |
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230 | 0.02% |
| Elantra GT |
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1000001 | 99.92% |
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Well I took my RS in for the head gasket recall yesterday. Really glad I am within a reasonable driving distance from the best Ford tech in the eastern United States. Should be done by Thursday and she’s so drat awesome she’s installing my CP-E Stage 2 rear motor mount for me too. If any of you RS owners are willing to drive to Dearborn, it’s worth it to know your car is in the best hands.
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Feb 20, 2018 18:11
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Yeah, I am going to need a couple beers and a coupon code to pull the trigger on the mountune radiator. Hopefully I can get it for under 400. That and brake ducting are my two big mods for this year so I can track the car more reliably.
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Feb 20, 2018 18:26
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yeah i would def buy the montune one over the mishimoto. swapping the radiator is pretty much tearing down the front end all the way past the crash bar right? I spose in that case i might just save all my front end work for that and knock out the intake ram, FMIC and boost hoses while im doing the rad.
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Feb 20, 2018 18:35
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Dear thread, I hate you for showing me how cheap the IS38 is and how much power it lys a tune puts down.
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Feb 20, 2018 18:38
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el oh el, this is how it starts and the problem with owning a turbo car
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Feb 20, 2018 18:42
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BlackMK4 posted:el oh el, this is how it starts and the ftfy
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Feb 20, 2018 18:43
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BlackMK4 posted:el oh el, this is how it starts and the problem with owning a turbo car Yep, youll be balls deep into an FMIC, radiator, e30 tune soon enough
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Feb 20, 2018 18:51
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I'm holding on to the idea that I'm leaving it 100% stock, then trading it for a CTR once they start coming off lease  (Watch me pay it off by end of year, sell it, and buy some old BMW or Honda) BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Feb 20, 2018 |
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Feb 20, 2018 18:54
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Huge_Midget posted:Well I took my RS in for the head gasket recall yesterday. Really glad I am within a reasonable driving distance from the best Ford tech in the eastern United States. Should be done by Thursday and she’s so drat awesome she’s installing my CP-E Stage 2 rear motor mount for me too. If any of you RS owners are willing to drive to Dearborn, it’s worth it to know your car is in the best hands. nnnnnng so jealous. It's only a 4.5 hour drive....
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Feb 20, 2018 19:18
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KillHour posted:nnnnnng so jealous. It's only a 4.5 hour drive....  It might be worth it even at 4.5 hours. I know people are driving theirs over from Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo to have her work on them. I'm waiting on my new skid plate to come in before I get mine taken care of, winter did a number on the awful fiberboard thing that comes from the factory.
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Feb 20, 2018 19:27
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It’s totally worth the 4.5 hour drive. I’m 3 hours from Dearborn in Fort Wayne and I wouldn’t hesitate in a second. She’s amazing and super thorough and genuinely cares about the cars and you. When I talked to her yesterday she said she’s got people from all over bringing her their RS’s to work on. She said she’s even got a guy driving in from San Diego to get his fixed.
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Feb 20, 2018 21:07
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Thinking about driving for uber or lyft with my 2012 4 door 6 spd gti.
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Feb 21, 2018 01:25
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Candlelight Virgil posted:Thinking about driving for uber or lyft with my 2012 4 door 6 spd gti. I drove Uber in my fiesta ST for a while. It worked out ok and never had a problem fitting people and stuff in.
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Feb 21, 2018 01:35
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GutBomb posted:I drove Uber in my fiesta ST for a while. It worked out ok and never had a problem fitting people and stuff in. those poor back seat passengers.
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Feb 21, 2018 01:52
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Test and tune on Saturday was pretty fun. They ran it in 20 minute heats with a ten minute break to swap out workers. They had three courses set up, to where you could jump from one to the other. Car did well for the most part but when you get to run a tight course back to back to back it seems to wreak havock on the brakes due to the torque vectoring. After lunch they set up a proper course. Fastest cars were running around 36, my fastest was 40.7.
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Feb 21, 2018 05:34
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Whee, I'm 99.9% sure my blend door actuator ate poo poo while I was going out to eat tonight. About half way there the HVAC changed modes and suddenly I have about 10 seconds of knocking from the dashboard, and then the same thing when I started the car after dinner. At least it seems to be a cheap part, though it looks like it'll be worse than the BMW fan speed controller to get to.
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Feb 21, 2018 06:22
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Hatch Goons I’m trying my damnedest to get myself a Golf GTI, but I’m having a time doing so. I’ve got my eye on a 2016 GTI SE that’s a reasonable price, but the fellow that owned it threw down over 46k miles on the sucker in the year and a half he owned it. Service history shows it was dealer serviced at all the recommended intervals, but I don’t know if that’s worth anything in and of itself. It’s at a non VW dealership, so getting it certified isn’t an option. Can someone throw me a hot take or two before I make a mistake?
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Feb 21, 2018 19:12
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How much is it? I'd expect 14-16k for that, maybe?
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Feb 21, 2018 19:17
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manual? dsg? what's the nadaguide and kbb price for it based on options, miles, color?
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Feb 21, 2018 19:41
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18k and automatic. Not sure what the other things are, but I’ll check KBB on it in a minute. I did the math and homeboy had it only a year and a half, which averages to a hair over 87 miles driven every single day he had it. I’m a complete idiot about cars, but sounds WAY too high.
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Feb 21, 2018 19:43
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Warbird posted:18k and automatic. Not sure what the other things are, but I’ll check KBB on it in a minute. I did the math and homeboy had it only a year and a half, which averages to a hair over 87 miles driven every single day he had it. I’m a complete idiot about cars, but sounds WAY too high. For what it's worth I have a 75 miile round trip commute and drive a fair bit on the weekends too, which comes out to around 26,000 per year. So it's possible if he has a similar situation.
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Feb 21, 2018 19:51
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maybe he had a long commute? i put 55k on a WRX in 2 years. over 100mi/day for a year and then less for the second year. i havent had a long commute in 10 years but now i do and i'm going to hit 17k/yr on the first year, mostly commuting and no planned road trips. it's definitely doable. OBAMNA PHONE fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Feb 21, 2018 |
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Feb 21, 2018 19:52
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That’s fair and completely possible for this area. What carries more weight here? The quantity of the miles or the “quality” of them?
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Feb 21, 2018 20:26
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highway miles are easy miles, compared to grinding away in stop and go make sure the DSG transmission was serviced at 40k, it's expensive to pay a shop to do it but essential for it to last as long as it should.
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Feb 21, 2018 20:34
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BraveUlysses posted:highway miles are easy miles, compared to grinding away in stop and go Supporting this. High mileage young cars are alright in my book since they're likely just highway miles. DSG service can also be DIYd for around $100 and isn't awful if you're so inclined and it needs it. All that said, I personally wouldn't drop 18k on that one when a few more grand gets you into a new one most places that want to move inventory. You can probably find better for that price if you've got time.
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Feb 21, 2018 21:12
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$18k is too much, that's a $15k-16k car
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Feb 21, 2018 21:21
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Yeah I got my 16 Reflex 6speed coupe with 19k on it for 17. Too much.
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Feb 22, 2018 00:26
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So upon arriving at the dealership and finding out the fellow I was supposed to meet wasn't even working (despite being told otherwise), I was interested to find out that the GTI didn't have any of the features listed online. No leather seats, no sunroof, no keyless entry. It was pretty close to stock. In fact, it was a S and a utter and complete waste of my time. I took off work and quadrupled my commute to look at this damned thing. I'm not even angry, just exhausted. (So naturally the VW place we talked to the other day called and said we get a '16 GTI S with 9.9K miles + certification for the same price while I was fuming on the way home.) I'm tired.
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Feb 22, 2018 00:50
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I drove 30 miles to a Ford dealership and they tried to sell me a ‘16 FiST for 27k. Moral of the story is dealerships suck.
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Feb 22, 2018 00:58
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LOL
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Feb 22, 2018 01:57
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If I had to do it all over again I would pass on the sunroof and leather seats.
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Feb 22, 2018 02:03
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I could take or leave either, but keyless entry would be nice to have.
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Feb 22, 2018 02:39
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wolrah posted:Whee, I'm 99.9% sure my blend door actuator ate poo poo while I was going out to eat tonight. About half way there the HVAC changed modes and suddenly I have about 10 seconds of knocking from the dashboard, and then the same thing when I started the car after dinner. What kind of car is it ? This happened to my FiST and I’ve heard of it happening to several others If so, I have some bad news because the part seems cheap and easy to get to, but it’s located directly behind an air bag. Actually, I don’t know if that’s bad or not. I’ve never messed with an airbag, but have heard the stories of how dangerous they are , so I never bothered with it
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Feb 22, 2018 02:59
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wolrah posted:Whee, I'm 99.9% sure my blend door actuator ate poo poo while I was going out to eat tonight. About half way there the HVAC changed modes and suddenly I have about 10 seconds of knocking from the dashboard, and then the same thing when I started the car after dinner. My FiST is doing the same thing, I'll be taking it to the dealer for repair in the next few weeks. I'm still well within warranty miles and about 4 months left on time, so it's something that needs to happen but not incredibly urgent. It gave me a good pause the first time it happened, around last July/August.
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Feb 22, 2018 03:38
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Dr.Caligari posted:What kind of car is it ? This happened to my FiST and I’ve heard of it happening to several others Yup, FiST, and yea I know it's a common issue on our cars. Not sure about the air bag thing, as far as I know it's in the dash sort of behind the radio, the nearest air bag should be the one in the wheel. It didn't do it today when I went to the grocery store but I assume hearing it do it twice means the part is broken already anyways.
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Feb 22, 2018 04:07
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Just dropped my car off. There's no way I could have made it work to go all the way to Detroit for a week. The guy at the service department said I'm their 4th RS and all 3 others are getting a new head. The parts are on back order too, so it's going to be there a while. They gave me a base Fusion Hybrid. 
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Feb 22, 2018 16:02
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Etrips posted:If I had to do it all over again I would pass on the sunroof and leather seats. My previous car had leather seats and I will never go back.
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Feb 22, 2018 20:14
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a mysterious cloak posted:My previous car had leather seats and I will never go back. Did you get your JB4 yet?
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Feb 22, 2018 20:28
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a mysterious cloak posted:My previous car had leather seats and I will never go back. There is a new SEL golf we could get, but that’s not going to be as fun. I’ve always heard leather described as “great until it’s a massive pain in the rear end”. Plus it’s hot as hell down here in the summer, so...
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Warbird posted:There is a new SEL golf we could get, but that’s not going to be as fun. I’ve always heard leather described as “great until it’s a massive pain in the rear end”. Plus it’s hot as hell down here in the summer, so...
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