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Idk why, but most of the economical American cars of the past 20 years just seem to have so many issues

Since the market is undervaluing sedans right now, a W212 or W213 E-class isn’t a horrible idea. those are nice cars, there’s tons of them, and they seem to be pretty reliable. At least if you avoid the fancy stuff like air suspension. You can pick up a nice W212 (under 100k miles) for $10-15k…I even found one with 64K for $12k. + it’s just “something different” to drive for a few years

I actually don’t mind the boxier new passport, but it’s too expensive lol also yeah it’s not /really/ off-road like it’s trying to be, whereas the previous one wasn’t trying too hard. My Grandma has a CR-V (she just got a 2025 actually, she’s had all last 3 gens lol) and I guess I’m just worried it’ll be too much like that. i thought about a 4Runner but I’d be getting like a 2015. Hard to find with leather seats and 4wd both included in one package (I probably shouldn’t care about leather seats too much, but I just prefer it lol). Also — Why would I get a 2wd 4runner? To me I have to get it in 4wd, that’s like the /whole point/ lol Lexus GX might work but ehhhh I don’t like how the early 2nd gen’s look. Although I do think other people agree and the price sort of reflects that (a good thing on an arguably very nice car) I somewhat want a Rivian R1T but I refuse to get an electric car until I have a garage at home with a 240V outlet ready to go. I’m not paying “street price” for electricity. I still think electric cars are a little too early still too, not quite there yet (and the depreciation, even used is stupid) i was going to upgrade to a BMW X5 35d at first, but then I learned where the fuel filter location is and I’m not really sure i want to commit to dealing with that so often. VW made it extremely easy on the Touareg in comparison. A BMW with a B58 may be worth considering though. That engine seems to be reliable! Doesn’t seem to be a good time to buy a pickup truck either, prices seem ridiculous on those.

It would be nice to have a new or pretty much new car. And Mazdas have proven to be reliable I can’t blame you

What y’all think I should replace the touareg with in a year or two? what’s good under $20k? After owning a Touareg TDI for 5 years, here’s some thoughts: some positives: - I love being able to put some all terrains on it and pretty much go anywhere within reason. Hence me taking a random trip to Colorado and being totally fine with a bit of snow driving! - I love how solid feeling the car is - things like suspension bushings are even holding up great still. I haven’t had to replace any suspension parts after 183k miles, which is insane to me. - I’m pretty sure my rear brake pads were original after 183k miles. I only just changed them because of that rear wheel bearing failure. I changed the fronts when I got the car and there’s still plenty left - hadn’t had to change a headlight bulb either. Those HID’s hold up well, also the car lives outside and the headlights aren’t yellowed. - I haven’t towed with it, but it can tow enough that I can probably move myself out of my house if I rented a trailer in a couple of trips - the diesel engine is powerful enough. I mostly want it to last so I’m a bit boring, but if I need to accelerate hard, it does it well. some negatives: - it’s reasonably efficient (28-30mpg), but because I have to use fuel additives to preserve the CP4 and be paranoid about changing fuel filters, it’s effectively only /OK/, it’s realistically more like 22-25mpg, with the added bonus of occasionally spilling fuel additive in your trunk, smelling up the whole car LOL - the transmission often can’t figure out what to do between 2nd and 3rd. Mostly a problem in cities, I’ve driven other Touareg's (even the gas 3.6) and they all have this issue. I wish VW would have used the ZF 8 speed in this car as opposed to the Aisin, but they did not - I hate that they piled up hoses and wires on top of the V6, if you need to work on the engine, it ensures you’ll be there for hours + you’ll have to replace whatever you touch pretty much. Haven’t had to do this, but I’m scared to work on it lol. It’s also easy to break the coolant hose that runs over the oil filter. I broke it once simply changing my oil filter - having a DPF and DEF/adblue is annoying, but not annoying enough to do the whole deletion process - depreciation is horrible on anything German, even used. I know new cars kinda suck…. So I’ll probably hang onto this Touareg as long as I can, but I really have no idea what to replace it with when the time comes. I do still think spending more than $20k on a daily for myself is unreasonable, unless it’s something that just won’t depreciate, but that’s a gamble because the markets can change…. So I’m not exactly in a rush to go buy an old G wagon for example lol

Merry Christmas guys!

Haha sure sounds like one. Except the grinds are probably small shards of metal

Good god I was about to die ok maybe a bit of an exaggeration but this bearing sure is bad lol IMG_1649.mov

For whatever reason, there seems to be way more videos of people changing out wheel bearings on VW’s on the right side of the car, rather than the left. Coincidence? Maybe. Sure is interesting though lol

Alright, so maybe I’m not wrong on that right rear! I’ll check the other side to compare, but thanks!

Anyways, here’s some proof that I went to Westeen Colorado in the middle of Winter like an idiot lol

@Bitter (Or anyone else experienced) I’m trying to figure out if I have a bad wheel bearing and thought maybe you could help. I’ve actually never had a car with a bad wheel bearing before, but I can tell you I have a pretty annoying “groan” above 35 mph, and it seems to go away on a sharp right curve (which should be the right side unloading — meaning it’s probably the right side of the car) I used my full size spare to make sure it wasn’t tires — installed on front and rear right and went for a drive and no change. I’ve checked for up/down/side to side play. I’ve spun the wheel by hand and tried to see if I can tell but the front sounds perfect — I do suspect the rear a bit. Here’s a video of me trying to spin the rear whilst trying to film with a phone: IMG_1610.mp4 it’s quite annoying that it’s not obvious to me haha, as it’s quite loud around 50-55 mph and that’s almost my entire commute, so that gets old quick. At least I know my wheel probably won’t fly off (yet) This did actually pop up all of a sudden — but right after I drove almost 3000 miles in a single session (drove to western Colorado and back). But funnily enough, I didn’t really notice until I was almost back home. The noise doesn’t come across on video too well when I film it from inside the car unfortunately, it’s way worse in person edit: here’s a video of me trying to show off the noise from in the car, might as well include that video too I figured! IMG_1602.mp4

For what it’s worth, we deal with Google flagging a certain login page to an appliance we have at work all the time we always request a review and they suddenly “find nothing” and clear it. but then it happens again and again without explanation. so pretty much every month I’m sending a request to Google to review that site lol… can’t get ahold of anyone at Google to look at it, and we’ve even tried contacting the manufacturer of that appliance to ask if they know what might be triggering it and they can’t figure it out either.

This won't do anything there will be (probably already is) lesser known sites, or even onion sites, where people will post whatever firearm designs they want. People should still be careful with what they print especially if it involves explosives and projectiles... But there's no stopping this as long as the internet exists. Seek and ye shall find as they say

I remember driving Lime Rock Park on Simraceway, back when that was a thing. God I used to spend many hours in racing sims trying to get good like I was going somewhere LOL Was kinda sad when they shut down