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• dabsitidder@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  laughs while driving his 252k mile VW without a check engine light

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  • Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Either your VW was made before 2008 or you owe some malevolent spirit your eternal soul.

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    • dabsitidder@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      before 2008 No comment, I am fighting the rust goblins though

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      • Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The reason I say before 2008 is that around that time VW embraced programmed obsolescence with open arms. I have a 2012 Touran and around 200000 km (not miles) everything started breaking at once. Both driver and passenger side window lifts, front stabilizers and coils (separately), rear coils, gearbox control unit, rear lock, horn, file lines (twice) and now, to rub salt in the financial wound, it lost every drop of oil from the engine into a shopping centre carpark.

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  • not_that_guy05@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Unplugging your cel doesn’t count.

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• ma11en@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I had a mk2 Golf booked in to have the timing belt replaced, 1 week before it snapped.

  2 weeks later it was crushed by a tank at Mallory race track.

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ouch.

    My father snapped the timing belt in his turbo Passat at freeway speed many years ago. I suspect, but cannot prove, that he money shifted it. He reported that the noise it made was “bang.” I believe it.

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• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m a Volvo owner with a CEL and I’m scared.

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