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Re: Replacing the Odd Man Out - 2015 Audi A3 Long-Term Road Test
On a strictly mechanical system, such as using helical or conventional differential between the front and rear axles it's usually recommended to have all four tires be around the same diameter/wear s… (View Post)1 -
Re: New Shoes and an Oil Change - 2007 Dodge Charger SRT8 Long-Term Road Test
For reading, the type of parking brake the Charger and many cars with rear disc brakes use is called drum-in-disc (or as Chrysler and many OEM suppliers call them, drum-in-hat). As mentioned this set… (View Post)1 -
Re: What Would It Take for YOU to buy a diesel car?
For Europe, they were already moving towards our more stringent diesel emission standards to I think this scandal will only drive public awareness and accelerate the EU's move to cleaner emissions. V… (View Post)2 -
Re: What Would It Take for YOU to buy a diesel car?
As someone who is reasonably well versed in engine management and the calibration aspect (i.e. software tuning), it's completely reasonable for something like this to be in the software tuning suite.… (View Post)2 -
Re: What Would It Take for YOU to buy a diesel car?
The costs to engineer and integrate urea (DEF/AdBlue) injection into the selective catalyst reduction (SCR) system might have only cost VW the quoted $350 per vehicle, but that's different than the c… (View Post)2
