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- Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
- Replies: 55905
- Views: 3277242
Re: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
Meanwhile the EV market demand is declining
- Wed Jan 17, 2024 11:59 am
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
- Replies: 55905
- Views: 3277242
Re: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
I've done a little bit of van (EDV) work, but my responsibility is technically just with the truck and SUV (R1)
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 10:02 am
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
- Replies: 55905
- Views: 3277242
Re: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
We don't have dealerships. Work is done at a growing number of service centers or, in some situations, as mobile work
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:10 am
- Forum: Manuals in the News
- Topic: Driving a stick isn't dead
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9022
Re: Driving a stick isn't dead
I drove an F350 dump truck for a city a couple summers during college and it had the manual with a creeper first gear. It was very simple in regular traffic you just don't use first. It was easily capable of launching on the street in second gear. Aside from in the shop or for parking lot maneuvers...
- Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:07 am
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
- Replies: 55905
- Views: 3277242
Re: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
Oh hey!
I haven't been here in months because I got a new job and with it a new laptop. I went to the dark side and now I'm a field service tech for Rivian.
Anywho, Happy New Year and all that jazz
I haven't been here in months because I got a new job and with it a new laptop. I went to the dark side and now I'm a field service tech for Rivian.
Anywho, Happy New Year and all that jazz
- Tue May 30, 2023 10:47 am
- Forum: Manuals in the News
- Topic: No more manuals left in Audi's U.S. lineup
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7354
Re: No more manuals left in Audi's U.S. lineup
In the literal hundreds - thousands, perhaps - of ZF Mopar products I've driven, the rolling stop bump has been consistently evident. There are some exceptions here and there, but its a part of the whole shift strategy so those exceptions are very unusual. Some people just may not notice it, but I'm...
- Mon May 08, 2023 1:00 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: STICKIN' IT TO "THE MAN" SINCE 1941
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1111
Re: STICKIN' IT TO "THE MAN" SINCE 1941
The vast majority of the "improvements" are pretty terrible, actually. A windshield-integrated antenna on the vehicle with the highest number of broken windshields per capita? Horrible!
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 9:46 am
- Forum: Tranny Talk
- Topic: Younger generation w/standard shifts
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1354
Re: Younger generation w/standard shifts
Car people - the ones actually interested in cars, not looking cool - will almost always have at least a passing awareness of how to drive a manual if they've been in the culture for a while
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 9:44 am
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
- Replies: 55905
- Views: 3277242
Re: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
This is shocking, considering how terrible the current product line is. The WL Grand Cherokee and the Wagoneer line are horrendous products
- Tue Dec 20, 2022 10:46 am
- Forum: Manuals in the News
- Topic: No more manuals left in Audi's U.S. lineup
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7354
Re: No more manuals left in Audi's U.S. lineup
The ZF 8 speed absolutely is not in the right gear in any situation. The shift strategy for deceleration keeps it in 3rd until a full stop, making accelerating from a near-stop frustrating while it hunts for and bangs in to 1st. Otherwise, it's absolutely a wonderful transmission, as far as automati...
- Thu Oct 27, 2022 8:27 am
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
- Replies: 55905
- Views: 3277242
Re: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
OMG - My jeep needed a repair! I heard a clunking noise while driving to and from work this last week. I was thinking that maybe the tailpipe hanger failed. On Saturday morning, I looked underneath and saw that the left-rear lower control arm had become the left rear lower control arms. I picked up...
- Wed Aug 31, 2022 4:58 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: If ..........., You Just Might Be Drivin' an Electric
- Replies: 115
- Views: 26920
Re: If ..........., You Just Might Be Drivin' an Electric
color me surprised that any car brand would go all-out EV (even though I thought VW was doing that sooner and not just some EVs); color me MOAR surprised that Stellantis or whatever they call themselves is supposedly doing it. and going from having all these hemis and other powerful ICE engines to ...
- Tue Aug 02, 2022 10:12 am
- Forum: Tranny Talk
- Topic: Standard transmission EPA ratings
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3307
Re: Standard transmission EPA ratings
All cars will have a slight discrepancy in the speed displayed versus your actual speed. You'll always be going slightly slower than the speedometer. It's a liability thing for manufacturers. The exception is law enforcement vehicles, which historically have CERTIFIED displayed on the speedo somewhe...
- Wed Jul 27, 2022 2:02 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
- Replies: 55905
- Views: 3277242
Re: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
Dealer techs are more often than not far more aware of what goes on with their brands' vehicles than some random independent shop. I promise you I can look over a Mopar product and come up with a list of parts that are on their way out or failed entirely that most mechanics would never even see. Th...
- Wed Jul 13, 2022 7:44 am
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
- Replies: 55905
- Views: 3277242
Re: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
Dealer techs are more often than not far more aware of what goes on with their brands' vehicles than some random independent shop. I promise you I can look over a Mopar product and come up with a list of parts that are on their way out or failed entirely that most mechanics would never even see. The...