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Desertbreh wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:18 pm I'm lost on the T Chal Zendaya reference.

Remake of Dune movie(s) reference.

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.

Desertbreh wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:18 pm I'm lost on the T Chal Zendaya reference.

The movie is called DUNE young sir

max225 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:35 pm

Desertbreh wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:18 pm I'm lost on the T Chal Zendaya reference.

The movie is called DUNE young sir

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Never seen it, obvi.

Desertbreh wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:11 pm

wap wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:03 pm

I'm "washing" mine as we speak.

















It's raining.

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.

So you're saying you live in Athens.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ ... sky-greece

Desertbreh wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:12 pm

max225 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 2:21 pm

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.

SAWCE wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:32 pm

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.

wap wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:41 pm

Desertbreh wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:11 pm

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.

So you're saying you live in Athens.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/ ... sky-greece

Yes sir.

D Griff wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:44 pm

Desertbreh wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:12 pm

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.

max225 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:35 pm

Desertbreh wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 4:18 pm I'm lost on the T Chal Zendaya reference.

The movie is called DUNE young sir

I still haven’t seen the second. The first was great.

Desertbreh wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:46 am

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.

CaleDeRoo wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:11 am

Desertbreh wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:46 am

Hendricks? That is a GREAT deal.

Yep. If I'm understanding it right our employee pricing for labor is $50/hr

That is a serious perk for a Euro time bomb driver.

CaleDeRoo wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:11 am

Desertbreh wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:46 am

Hendricks? That is a GREAT deal.

Yep. If I'm understanding it right our employee pricing for labor is $50/hr

That’s insanely cheap

max225 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:23 pm

CaleDeRoo wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:11 am

Yep. If I'm understanding it right our employee pricing for labor is $50/hr

That’s insanely cheap

Yeah. Why even do anything myself anymore?

CaleDeRoo wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:07 pm

max225 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:23 pm

That’s insanely cheap

Yeah. Why even do anything myself anymore?

At fiddy an hr. Hells to the no. Any decent shop is 4x

Finally a real yellow, that purple is hot, and the metallic orange is an improvement.

Polishing stationary models is like the most Corvette thing ever. All three are hot.

CaleDeRoo wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:07 pm

max225 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:23 pm

That’s insanely cheap

Yeah. Why even do anything myself anymore?

As long as you stay at Hedrick, you could do a million mile S4! Probably the first and only in history.

D Griff wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:50 am

CaleDeRoo wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:07 pm

Yeah. Why even do anything myself anymore?

As long as you stay at Hedrick, you could do a million mile S4! Probably the first and only in history.

You'll have to start borrowing it for work trips instead of flying.

CaleDeRoo wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:00 am

D Griff wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:50 am

As long as you stay at Hedrick, you could do a million mile S4! Probably the first and only in history.

You'll have to start borrowing it for work trips instead of flying.

I’ve always wanted to drive a car over a million miles…

Let me try to hit 300k for BREH then we can start talking about 1 million

CaleDeRoo wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 11:49 am Let me try to hit 300k for BREH then we can start talking about 1 million

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.