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phade posted:My 2008 Lexus IS F that I just picked up at the beginning of December. It's going to be making the 2300 mile journey from Calgary, Alberta to Beaumont, Texas in a couple weeks when I relocate for work. I can't say I'm going to be very disappointed to leave the snow behind. Is anyone making aftermarket non-retarded exhaust tips for that yet? Love the car completely besides those stupid things.
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VolumeOverTalent posted:Finally got around to washing my car, so what better time to snap a couple of photos. Uh, did you pull the engine before this picture? That is some insane wheel gap front to back.
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Feb 11, 2009 19:56
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Hypnolobster posted:I was saying that if he wants to remove the gap, fill it with using bigger tires instead of lowering the car and keeping the rubberband tires. So increasing the overall diameter and having all sorts of things to sort out?
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Feb 15, 2009 00:30
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azerdude32 posted:S4 stuff How do you find the ownership experience? I've got a 1.8T Jetta and for my next car have been heavily considering adding two cylinders and a turbo. Nightmarish? Expensive? Etc?
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metalhead posted:The 2.7T is pretty reliable and stout. The stock k03 turbos are a bit iffy and will fail somewhere between 100-150k miles, but that's just an excuse to go k04. The timing belt also needs to be done before 80k miles. So just like the 1.8T basically. I'm assuming the timing belt is also a loving nightmare since VAG had something to do with it. (Just did mine for a tidy $700 sum, which sadly was a good deal with all the stuff you do at the same time as the belt.)
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Mar 4, 2009 20:22
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azerdude32 posted:Personally, I'm absolutely IN LOVE with this car. I plan on driving it till it can't be driven anymore. Well consider my arm twisted, I'm now on the longterm hunt for a clean B5. I took a 4.2 S4 (B6? I don't know audi stuff besides B5) out and loved the poo poo out of it. I also love turbo lag (seriously) so that's got the older ones in higher priority for me, the V8 did make a lovely sound though.
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Mar 4, 2009 20:35
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azerdude32 posted:Its the only way a real S4 would be, 6 speed. I need to find one locally to get the girlfriend to give it a test drive, I'm about 16 months away from my next purchase if I'm responsible about it but she's shopping right now and found the Viggen we drove last week "too slow" and didn't like the clutch. Her budget is around 16K if she finds something she actually really likes and that seems to be the going rate for a clean S4 with normal mileage and the timing belt done. To get her enthusiastic about it I have to find her one to drive so she can see how she likes it though.
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Mar 4, 2009 22:23
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DropShadow posted:You should drive a 2.0T. I've had two of both, and the 2.0T blows the 1.8T out of the water. I've been thinking about going this route, but am I the only person that really doesn't like the new Jetta bodystyle? It looks all jacked up in the rear. The Rabbit/GTI pull it off really nicely with the hatchback but the Jetta seems like an afterthought. The GLI is so much prettier than my GLS, it hurts.
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Mar 13, 2009 18:03
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DropShadow posted:Photoshopped Long Beaches. I've been rationalizing putting my Long Beaches back on early because of the nice weather lately, but one season left summer tires and random Montreal March snow don't get along, easily one of my favorite OEM VW wheels. The closest thing I've seen to an 18" Long Beach was someone with the 18" Manhattan wheels off of the Touraeg with spacers and adaptors. Looked pretty good. They're essentially a more angular Long Beach. The only thing putting me off getting a set is what I can only imagine is the huge weight of the wheels.
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I always wanted an 18" set of Long Beaches, so I cranked up Photoshop to see what they'd look like. In the process, I made them way too big, but I liked it. 
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I'm the rear end in a top hat driver that Weissbier has recently replaced. Even when it's wobbling through turns I love it. Also I need to buy a camera that isn't inside a phone.  
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Mar 22, 2009 15:59
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like.a.kite posted:
Am I the only one that thinks those wheels on the CL ruin a perfectly good car?
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Mar 31, 2009 15:00
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CthulhuBill posted:
My dad would lose his mind over that car, when he was a kid they had a yellow Javelin. Easily one of my favorite cars of the era. Post more info and pictures thanks.
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Apr 2, 2009 14:31
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_firehawk posted:What the hell is on her leg? I'd wager it's a tattoo.
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Apr 10, 2009 16:43
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netwerk23 posted:I am an artiste! Are you disrespecting some hard parking?
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Apr 13, 2009 15:46
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Fortress TB posted:I did however find that the NA Z32 can be pretty loving awesome :iamafag:. Every time I tell myself I won't read youtube comments it lasts about 2 hours, then I see some video and go "hmm I wonder what people thought about this...Oh they're all loving retarded, I am never reading youtube comments again." Then it all repeats.
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Apr 14, 2009 19:35
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Penis Colada posted:Oh yeah. My car has a huge rear end. All kidding aside, how have you found it to live with? My sister has been looking at these and I'm wondering how upkeep/reliability has been?
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Jul 1, 2009 01:19
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MacGregor posted:
I'm sorry but that definitely IS the greatest. It makes me want to go through Quebec's costly and long Motorcycle licensing process.
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Jul 17, 2009 13:36
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polydizzle posted:http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm80/charliehustlee/soobie004.jpg Can't say I'm a big fan of the fart can, blue bugeye wagon though? Yes please. Prices on these have actually gotten reasonable lately. Gotta love Canadian Subaru prices.
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Jul 23, 2009 17:54
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polydizzle posted:A used one right now is about 10 grand, I got mine for 13 but it was literally in perfect condition and maintained by a Subaru employee. I got real lucky. Whats the price of a 09 up there ? To be fully fair I do love the sound of a boxer engine, I think I just dislike the aesthetic of the fart can itself. As for '09's in Canada? Base WRX is 32k, base STI is 40k MSRP. No options, no tax, no nothing. Also remember that tax, in my province anyway, is 13%
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DropShadow posted:Bought this on Thursday and can't leave well enough alone. God I love those wheels. I feel like if I lived in a front plate province I'd have to move if I bought something that nice and had to bolt that to the front of it though.
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Apr 2, 2013 17:21
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BrokenKnucklez posted:But still its a BMW in the photo. 99.9% of women don't know the difference between an E36 and an F30, so you know.... money and poo poo. Most women I know that are impressed by BMW's are exactly the kind of woman I'd have no interest in dating, unless of course they knew the difference between an E36 and an E30.
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Got to spend a week driving around in this thing my dad bought to mow some fields and do general around the property work. It's a 1975 Ford 3400 industrial tractor. It runs on gas not diesel oddly enough, it's got a 2.6L 3 cylinder with 48hp and 128lb/ft of torque at an eye watering 1350 rpm. 8 forward gears, 2 reverse and a two stage clutch for the PTO/driveline. It was fun to play around with and it mows a 6 acre field a hell of a lot faster than anything else we have. There's also something satisfying about driving something so entirely mechanical and unforgiving, it's a unique little bastard to get started. Chokes and old carbs and all that but overall just a fun old toy for my dad to use and for me to get to play around with when I'm visiting.  
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Sep 3, 2013 15:17
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the spyder posted::tractorporn: Have them wired up to the front/rear headlights, we had the switch box laying around and the old switches were toast. The rear head(tail?)lights are pretty key for any sort of evening snow blowing.
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Sep 3, 2013 15:25
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Lightbulb Out posted:I dreamed of E30s in highschool. Now I have two. What have I become? I had an E30 in highschool and now I've got nothing and live downtown where cars are impractical. I have hosed up.
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New (to me) car. 2020 A35 AMG hatch, so far love the thing, zippy around town, decent on gas on the highway and makes very stupid pop pop pop sounds when you put it into antisocial mode. Oh and very fun in the snow. And has a 240,000km, 15 year warranty on the head because it failing is apparently a 'when' not 'if'. 
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OneSizeFitsAll posted:^^Nice car! The snow adds to the picture, too. Curious what tyres it runs and if you switch for winter? Thank you, and I run Kumho Wintercraft WP72's in the winter, got a set a few years back on the B9 A4 this replaced and honestly they're 80% of a blizzak in the snow for half the price, plus they're one of the quietest winters I've ever used on dry asphalt. Mercedes quoted me $2,400 CAD for Continental winters for this and the Kumho's were $990. Running winter tires here is borderline required, to the point where it will reduce your insurance premium and in some provinces is a legal requirement from November to April. That E63S is very very nice. We get a little luckier in Canada for hatches and wagons than our freedom loving cousins to the south thankfully, haven't seen an E63s wagon in the wild yet though. I'm finding the transition from the Audi ecosystem to the new MBUX pretty easy honestly, there were a few days of moving around favourites and ambient lighting settings so it's still fun but less like a coke-fuelled rave orgy at night. My girlfriend is pretty pissed about no DVD's for roadtrips though, my A4 was a 2017 in the weird point in time where it had a DVD player and you could pretty easily bypass video in motion locks with a few coding changes.
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OneSizeFitsAll posted:
I'm literally sitting at my desk doing one CD at a time FLAC rips for this exact purpose, time consuming but worthwhile. The Burmester in the A35 isn't at the level of the bigger cars but it absolutely annihilates what my A4 had, I probably waste more money on my home hifi stuff than I do on cars so it was always a pain point in that car.
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To quote the thread title: "loving LOL Nevermind."  We love getting to experience the service and aftersales experience 9 days after buying a car with only 35k km on it. In addition to this, HVAC blower bearing is on the way out, sunroof seals crooked and weird, brakes squeal at low speed, auto high beams throw errors when the car is immaculately clean saying cameras are obstructed... I hope the loaner is nice.
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Theophany posted:Give the keys back and tell them to gently caress off, that is way too much bork for an approved used vehicle. A car that terminally hosed at 35k isn't going to improve any quicker than the warranty will run out. If only there were some mechanism by which to do that.
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Theophany posted:Oh gently caress, my bad. I confused yours with the recent AMG E Class purchase, in the UK you have an enshrined right to return a car within 30 days of purchase if it's not fit for sale. Yeah we get Canada lucky about a lot of things but we're trash about lemon laws here.
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Feb 20, 2024 21:21
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davecrazy posted:Car needs a bath but I got the carbon fiber V grille installed. Having flashbacks to the dealer quoting $600 to replace one of my illuminated door sills that stopped lighting up on my A4.
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Feb 23, 2024 21:04
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davecrazy posted:It was $500 for the set. The instal was quick and easy, hardest part was fishing the power connector out of the car. Yeah I ended up just keeping an eye on eBay for salvage yard listings, got a pair for $150. Like it was dumb to care about my light up door sills, but I cared because it was SUPPOSED to light up.
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 Ok I am back to liking the car, dealership sent a valet to get the car, left me with a new GLB for a couple days while they looked into my complaints. 4matic error was a software update, clicky blower fan was replaced, they agreed the sunroof wasn’t sealing level and replaced all of the seals, and the auto high beams had a faulty lens hood on the camera that tells it what to do, so since it’s been -15C the last week the windshield was fogging/frosting. All replaced, pretty painless and nice to not have to even drop the car off. Mostly just nice to not be gaslit by a dealer. *I will most likely still sell it promptly 6 weeks before the warranty is up.
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Raluek posted:lol nice license plate, celery man Always nice to know who’s tayne pilled.
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Frozen Pizza Party posted:Can I get a printout of Oyster smiling The lady at the dmv didn’t get it, the dean of engineering was hoping it was some sort of math joke. It’s great because it just seems like nonsense to 95% of people, 1% will get it and 4% will google it and be so mad.
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GramCracker posted:I feel as though I did, and I'm very content with where all the numbers netted out at the end of the day. Every other dealer I was negotiating with would only do a max of $5k for the Golf TDI and this dealer ended up offering $9k, because they needed to move this car. Using my special maths, if I subtract that crazy $4k difference in trade price (from all other dealers) directly from the price of the car, it brings it down to $44k. As a former dealership finance manager, I very obviously appreciate that kind of boy math. I really like the new body style of the Type R, I would never have considered the gundam looking one as an adult but they really classed this one up.
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