buying a new vehicle
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Stock brakes but with much better pads. A big brake kit is $$$$ and parts might be tricky because the bolt pattern on this car is different from the STi.
The suspension is from a place called GTWorx out of Maryland. They are pretty much custom valved Bilstein struts, which I paired with RCE springs. Won't need to change the sway bars now, the car corners flat.
Very nice, yeah good coilovers are a huge boost to handling and road manners. I just remember how my WRX had a huge amount of lean due to the weak anti-sways. My brother's non-sport suspension BMW was several magnitudes better, but the wrx wasn't lowered of course. I like the hatch wrxs far better than the current ones.
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No way. 428 GC. Xdrive makes it a little higher, but I'm planning on some dinan springs when they come out with them, paired with their shockware hack that stiffens the magnetic shocks.
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agree and agree. c63 wagonThis one is the absolute worst.
That c63 wagon though.
like when they used to make the s4/s6 avant
No doubt. I said it before, if they made a 335 or S4 wagon I'd find a way to have that, but since they don't, I'm not going to make those kinds of sacrifices to drive something that won't swallow a bike. I was only back home for a few days, heading out tomorrow (tonight actually), but I was able to pick up my car at the dealer yesterday and then put a blanket down to take my bike to the trailhead for a 40 mile epic ride. Front wheel off because I didn't want to take a chance of messing anything up, but fit nicely with the wheel off, with 780mm-bar Enduro 29.
The rear picture I took makes it look real rear biased, but if I show a front picture it looks opposite. It definitely does not look like a GT. Those should not exist.
Nice ride JM. I see a 335 coupe in my future.
I would do bad things for that car. Instead I'll have to survive with this:orrrrrrrrrr
Nice rides guys. I just got this a couple of weeks back and can't stop smiling. I can't tell you what it is like going from a truck with 225,000 miles on it to this. 
I test drove a Audi A4, a Toyota Highlander, and a Honda Crosstour. I hated the Honda, its a dog. The Audi is a fun car, but not very useful. The Toyota had a good motor in it and a bike roof rack and a hitch. It was not fun at all.
When I sold the Lesbaru, we tried out the A4 Avant, Outback, Highlands, and 335xi wagon. They were all too small/not useful or beasts. We actually ended up buying another 2010 Forester XT. I just couldn't deal with the automatic. We sold one to Wifey's dad and bought this.
Why is it that hard to find a fun, useful car nowadays? This thing is great fun as a daily driver (however winter is exciting), but I can't fit a hitch and only fits four adults. If we go round 2, there is no backseat space for adults.Realistically, if the A/S6 Avant existed in the US, we would have gotten on and added fun to it.
Honestly the perfect vehicle for me is a Ford F150 4x4. But I just hate almost everything about it. My friends are moving to SF and they are selling their Element. Low miles, cheap, useful, and its a Honda.
I'm enjoying last weeks truck purchase, just getting it outfitted to haul the camper and tow the horse trailer. and as it is 400hp and 800 foot pounds of torque is hella fun
I have found that my friends who have vehicles as useful as yours tend to spend an inordinate amount of time being useful to others. That's not me... I like to sleep in most mornings....I'm enjoying last weeks truck purchase, just getting it outfitted to haul the camper and tow the horse trailer. and as it is 400hp and 800 foot pounds of torque is hella fun
Thats the beauty of being an old bastard. your friends either drive newer vehicles or are couch potatos. The ones that venture out into the hills have enough funds to buy stuff that doesn't break and don't get into who has the bigger johnson contest and go places where they will get stuck. Besides we all have really good RV tow service policies that cover off road.
As for moving other peoples stuff... hell no, Old guys get the guys out in front of Home Depot to do grunt work.
You buy a tri bike ...I would do bad things for that car. Instead I'll have to survive with this:
Audi Allroad?
do you really want to listen to another person bitch about the cost of audi maintenance.,,,
Not an issue. I mean, look at what I bought. If anything I got in deeper...
Looked at it, but finding one with any kind of decent mileage was damn near impossible. The ///M only had 80k when I got it. For an '02, that's not bad.
so you have both trucks....the volvo...and the jetta wagon?I'm enjoying last weeks truck purchase, just getting it outfitted to haul the camper and tow the horse trailer. and as it is 400hp and 800 foot pounds of torque is hella fun
isn't the engine in that just a V8?
does it need the front end removed for maintenance?
Yes and they are all paid for we owe nothing on any of them. The cars are commute vehicles. The old truck will handle towing the horse to one day shows where we don't require the camper and act as a back country beater for fishing trips to where I can't get a dually with a camper to. The new truck will carry the camper and easily tow the horse trailer to the far away multi day competitions that the wife goes to, as well as being the primary road trip machine
In non-US markets you can get the Allroad with a TDI, as well as an A6 Avant supercharged 3.0, or the RS6 Avant.
Thanks Obama.
I drove Stoney's M5. It's got two giant balls under the hood. Super fun to drive (6 liter v8??)
Thanks Obama.
I drove Stoney's M5. It's got two giant balls under the hood. Super fun to drive (6 liter v8??)
Yes, no. Tolerances are very tight and they wedged that engine in there. Hard as hell to get to the back of the engine. The VANOS system (8 individual throttle bodies) is a bitch to repair once it goes, and that's one I'm not dealing with. I'll do anything except crack open the engine.That being said, we have a really good BMW only, ///M specialist shop in Aurora we can go to. Relatively cheap (all considered) and very honest.
Thankfully I've found somewhere to get parts relatively cheap and because it's such a limited inventory of cars in the US, there are a few guys on the forums that buy wrecked ones and part them out.
4.9L. It is a Dinan Stg2 as well, so it's that much more stupid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_M5#E39_M5_.281998.E2.80.932003.29
M specialist shop in aurora....interesting.
if you ever get a audi....champagne motors on broadway always had quite the collection of ur quattro coupes years ago...
I don't see that happening for a while. I'm in for the long haul on this one and Wifey (amazingly) likes the Highlander. Any new car will be hers and it will be that.
IN other words you *need* all those vehicles??
3 out of 4 are needed. Trucks would be a waste of money on fuel to commute with she goes 50 miles south each day and I go 20 north.IN other words you *need* all those vehicles??
Wife has horses, she competes all over the state. we need a truck to move the horse around and the camper to stay on the grounds for 1/2 the cost of a hotel. Tell my wife to get rid of the horses and she WILL cut your balls off. The old truck, I might get 8-10K for it so I might as well just keep it.
I drove a plain Jane Mercedes Sprinter today. It was really hard to get on 2 wheels. CVS has these little islands in their parking lot. They made for a fantastic test course thankfully. There was Doctor Pepper everywhere when I dropped it off....