Exactly. Meanwhile the air quality in the Coachella Valley is atrocious. Dust has filled the skies for the last two days and will continue into tomorrow. Spring in the desert is straight up Grapes of Wrath dust bowl stuff. I feel like Tom Joad.
Because 2024. Porsche is 799 for the same pisswater mobil 1. Dealers gotta eat bro
This must be why I still put my 55 year old body on concrete.
I maintain that doing the erl change at home is actually far less work. The whole spend an hour driving and then another two hours sitting in a rape palace lobby is quite unappealing when I can change it at home in 30 minutes for 1/4 the cost.
D Griff wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 3:55 pm
I washed my car by hand yesterday.
Rain today-Tuesday or I would this weekend.
Next weekend looks good for a wash though. See how the weather looks the week after that to see if it’s worth spending the time or not.
Mine was covered in pollen and there's no rain for about a week, so I figured it's a good time. My car lives in either our carport or the airport deck like 95% of the time. It's great that it's out of the sun and whatnot, but spring is kind of brutal as it gets all the pollen, none of the rain. I drive so infrequently it's rare that I happen to be driving during rain too... which really just makes things dirtier anyway.
Exactly. Meanwhile the air quality in the Coachella Valley is atrocious. Dust has filled the skies for the last two days and will continue into tomorrow. Spring in the desert is straight up Grapes of Wrath dust bowl stuff. I feel like Tom Joad.
This must be why I still put my 55 year old body on concrete.
I maintain that doing the erl change at home is actually far less work. The whole spend an hour driving and then another two hours sitting in a rape palace lobby is quite unappealing when I can change it at home in 30 minutes for 1/4 the cost.
And change it CORRECTLY. No forgotten crush washer, no overtightened pan bolt, no underfill, no overfill, no wrong kind of oil.
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Johnny_P wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:21 pm
Earn it and burn it, Val.
max225 wrote: ↑Mon May 01, 2023 5:35 pm
Yes it's a cool car. But prepare the lube/sawdust.
CaleDeRoo wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 10:46 am
Man the employee discount saved my ass on the S4. Diag, new master, new slave, new lines, and oil change for $700 all in. Non employee oil change pricing alone is $345.
I'm getting all OEM Sachs parts too.
Hendricks? That is a GREAT deal.
Yep. If I'm understanding it right our employee pricing for labor is $50/hr
Desertbreh wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:47 am
Why would an oil change on an Audi cost $345?
If I had to TRY to make sense of it, I bet they charge an hour for labor ($250+ probably), then a little bit of profit on the materials, which for my car costs $80 from FCP or NAPA these days.
After going to 410k I’m going to say a big fuck no. It’s a tedious excercise filled with lots of useless work where you “work” for the car and trying to keep it alive once every month/other month.
max225 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 1:44 pm
After going to 410k I’m going to say a big fuck no. It’s a tedious excercise filled with lots of useless work where you “work” for the car and trying to keep it alive once every month/other month.
It’s definitely something you do to say you did more than for practical or financial reasons.
If it was that bad on a Crown Vic… on an S4. Matt Farrah’s million miles Lexus sounded like a huge pain in the ass as well.
on an S4. Matt Farrah’s million miles Lexus sounded like a huge pain in the ass as well.