Detroit wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:55 amWould you go a year without cleaning your rams at all?[user not found] wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:45 am
He cleaned it, why would I be?
I'd be
stacked them in my basement and just washed my hands afterwards 
TBH its causing a fair amount of
over here on the left coast. Many of us care John. You are treating a brand new sports sedan like a 79 Chevette with no hubcaps. Its felonious.
[user not found] wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 3:29 pmHence why I buy grey wheels with non-complex spoke patterns.troyguitar wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 3:21 pm Cleaning wheels is a PITA waste of time. I do it a couple of times a year when the filth gets too bad. They look dirty again the next fucking day.
Come at me broDesertbreh wrote: ↑Thu Apr 26, 2018 3:16 pmMany of us care John. You are treating a brand new sports sedan like a 79 Chevette with no hubcaps. Its felonious.
Wasn't thinking about the shiny door when I parked
I was only thinking about #lightbro when I snapped the pic.
Pretty much all ofJohnny_P wrote: ↑Wed May 02, 2018 7:43 am Haven't posted about this car a whole ton lately. So here's an update for
Took it up to the Haus of [user not found] for Meatfest 2018. Had a dude named Luke pull the two dents out of my passenger side rear door and quarter panel. $100 and my car looks brand fucking new again. Z brought out his industrial sized waxing machine and made that one door shiny too, all the white paint is gone and there was zero paint damage on the door. A tiny bit of paint damage on the quarter but nobody cares.
That got rid of the biggest annoyance with my car actually... the constant reminder that other people will damage your shit. In all honesty, over the last 1.5 years it hasn't been fucked with any more than you'd expect for a car anywhere else. A couple small bumper scratches but that's it. More than one person commented that the paint looked awesome for having been washed twice in its life and never waxed, lol. I'll remedy that soon, I do want to take care of this thing more than I am it's just hard to get that unicorn parking spot out front to wash it.
Nothing has broken on the car. Just crossed 6k miles with it on Monday. So nothing should. But at 1.5 years of being beat up by potholes and city lunar surface streets and constant 0-30-0 repeats, I'm rather impressed that it's not rattling like a baby toy. The rear parcel deck buzzes at 1500 RPM, and there's a small rattle in the driver door occasionally. There's also an intermittent rattle that I think is the passenger seat. All way less than the GTI did. Which is interesting because Subarus are known to be buzzboxes whereas VW's have a "higher build quality and are more solid". Take it how you will.
I do not get annoyed driving this car like I did the GTI. There's no understeer, no wheel spin, no surging, no lugging since I keep the revs higher. The brakes are fucking perfect in this. The steering talks to you and is super direct. You can change cornering attitude with throttle inputs. Visibility out the thing is fantastic even with the wang. The ride is bouncy/busy at low speeds but I've discussed this before. It smooths out over 30 MPH. The clutch is a little tricky combined with the aggressive throttle tip in but it's manageable. The smorgasbord of magic diffs is truly overkill but does help with cornering stability.
I love it. I do want to plac for a drop top after a ride in Z's short bus. But I love this car. Best car I've ever owned, and I will truly miss it when the time comes to move on. I've been taking it weekly, sometimes twice a week, on fast romps on unused roads in the area.... something I stopped doing very quickly when I got the GTI because it just wasn't worth it.
. This car is stupid fun. So the recommendation that I saw for alignment was to zero the toe on all wheels, and run as much negative camber as the adjustments will allow. Usually this ends up -1.5* camber on the front and IDK what on the back. But I dunno man I don't feel any understeer. It turns in lightning quick and razor sharp for me. My car only understeers if you get really stupid with it, or if you go to kick the back end out, it'll sort of understeer for a second before the diffs whiz the power to the back and lock, throwing the back end around. Which I find hilariously fun, that tiny fraction of understeer imparts a sense of confidence and then the car gradually transfers to oversteer.coogles wrote: ↑Fri May 04, 2018 1:10 pmPretty much all ofJohnny_P wrote: ↑Wed May 02, 2018 7:43 am Haven't posted about this car a whole ton lately. So here's an update for
Took it up to the Haus of [user not found] for Meatfest 2018. Had a dude named Luke pull the two dents out of my passenger side rear door and quarter panel. $100 and my car looks brand fucking new again. Z brought out his industrial sized waxing machine and made that one door shiny too, all the white paint is gone and there was zero paint damage on the door. A tiny bit of paint damage on the quarter but nobody cares.
That got rid of the biggest annoyance with my car actually... the constant reminder that other people will damage your shit. In all honesty, over the last 1.5 years it hasn't been fucked with any more than you'd expect for a car anywhere else. A couple small bumper scratches but that's it. More than one person commented that the paint looked awesome for having been washed twice in its life and never waxed, lol. I'll remedy that soon, I do want to take care of this thing more than I am it's just hard to get that unicorn parking spot out front to wash it.
Nothing has broken on the car. Just crossed 6k miles with it on Monday. So nothing should. But at 1.5 years of being beat up by potholes and city lunar surface streets and constant 0-30-0 repeats, I'm rather impressed that it's not rattling like a baby toy. The rear parcel deck buzzes at 1500 RPM, and there's a small rattle in the driver door occasionally. There's also an intermittent rattle that I think is the passenger seat. All way less than the GTI did. Which is interesting because Subarus are known to be buzzboxes whereas VW's have a "higher build quality and are more solid". Take it how you will.
I do not get annoyed driving this car like I did the GTI. There's no understeer, no wheel spin, no surging, no lugging since I keep the revs higher. The brakes are fucking perfect in this. The steering talks to you and is super direct. You can change cornering attitude with throttle inputs. Visibility out the thing is fantastic even with the wang. The ride is bouncy/busy at low speeds but I've discussed this before. It smooths out over 30 MPH. The clutch is a little tricky combined with the aggressive throttle tip in but it's manageable. The smorgasbord of magic diffs is truly overkill but does help with cornering stability.
I love it. I do want to plac for a drop top after a ride in Z's short bus. But I love this car. Best car I've ever owned, and I will truly miss it when the time comes to move on. I've been taking it weekly, sometimes twice a week, on fast romps on unused roads in the area.... something I stopped doing very quickly when I got the GTI because it just wasn't worth it.
I've been reading about how terrible the stock alignment supposedly is, I've been thinking about taking it to a shop here in town that track preps cars to see how much they can improve the stock understeery-ness. I guess these cars come with -2* plus of negative camber in the back and gain more when the suspension compresses, which keeps the car from rotating. Front is less than 1 degree from the factory in most cases, so the tires roll over under heavy cornering. Get to around -2* up front, back off to -.5* in back, zero out the toe all around and voila, these things come alive, I guess.
Don't fuck with it unless you're having tire wear issues. Alignments are very difficult to do right, unless you find an epic shop that is run by racer bros.Johnny_P wrote: ↑Fri May 04, 2018 1:28 pmSo the recommendation that I saw for alignment was to zero the toe on all wheels, and run as much negative camber as the adjustments will allow. Usually this ends up -1.5* camber on the front and IDK what on the back. But I dunno man I don't feel any understeer. It turns in lightning quick and razor sharp for me. My car only understeers if you get really stupid with it, or if you go to kick the back end out, it'll sort of understeer for a second before the diffs whiz the power to the back and lock, throwing the back end around. Which I find hilariously fun, that tiny fraction of understeer imparts a sense of confidence and then the car gradually transfers to oversteer.coogles wrote: ↑Fri May 04, 2018 1:10 pm
Pretty much all of
I've been reading about how terrible the stock alignment supposedly is, I've been thinking about taking it to a shop here in town that track preps cars to see how much they can improve the stock understeery-ness. I guess these cars come with -2* plus of negative camber in the back and gain more when the suspension compresses, which keeps the car from rotating. Front is less than 1 degree from the factory in most cases, so the tires roll over under heavy cornering. Get to around -2* up front, back off to -.5* in back, zero out the toe all around and voila, these things come alive, I guess.
The more flatbrims at the shop the better. Monster Energy flatbrims at that.max225 wrote: ↑Tue May 15, 2018 4:31 pmDon't fuck with it unless you're having tire wear issues. Alignments are very difficult to do right, unless you find an epic shop that is run by racer bros.Johnny_P wrote: ↑Fri May 04, 2018 1:28 pm
So the recommendation that I saw for alignment was to zero the toe on all wheels, and run as much negative camber as the adjustments will allow. Usually this ends up -1.5* camber on the front and IDK what on the back. But I dunno man I don't feel any understeer. It turns in lightning quick and razor sharp for me. My car only understeers if you get really stupid with it, or if you go to kick the back end out, it'll sort of understeer for a second before the diffs whiz the power to the back and lock, throwing the back end around. Which I find hilariously fun, that tiny fraction of understeer imparts a sense of confidence and then the car gradually transfers to oversteer.
do the rest.
at the amount of brake dust on them. They clean now though. Hoping to swap the wheels and wash her today after work.
