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I have been having some major lower back problems since starting to drive my car much more during the week. I think part of it is the overall suspension, but I have found that no matter how I adjust my seat, my hips are sitting below the level of my knees a great deal, and I think this angle is...

Was under heavy acceleration and the car bucked and check engine light came on. At first I thought I broke the DSG. Pulled over and had a smell of sulfur, but then went away, so I don't know if that was related to the car. Pulled the code posted in the title, which indicates a misfire on...

And how does this equate to fun on the street?

Had the pump replaced about a year ago, then again about 2 months later with the "new" part number. Today I turn on the car, get the check coolant warning, and sure enough the reservoir is empty. Going to get it towed to the dealer tomorrow. What a joke. Does anyone know if they ever got...

Am I the only one tired of the LED lighting strips on everything now.

Fitting products properly into brand and pricing ladders. And on the other side of the "conspiratorial" angle, because running an engine and associated parts at 75% of capacity leads to far fewer warranty claims.

Those front and rear shots are very flattering IMO, the car looks horrid from any other angle.

I have been searching around the internet the last few days for info regarding the Audi S3 coming to the U.S. Some sites and forums that I read say that the S3 sedan is all but a certainty as a 2014 model, but what is uncertain is whether the hatch will come to the U.S. Then other sources...

Not sure exactly where to post this, but wanted to know what others experience has been with service xpress at dealers. Yesterday I had to make a trip to one of our offices for work, and since a dealer is right nearby and I was in need of an oil change, I figured I would drop in and get an...

I see Texas has started issuing new plates that are simply black and white. I like the simple look, and how it would blend in with my CW gti. Is there anything that prevents someone from getting a new set of plates? Can I simply go to the local txdot office and tell them I want new plates...

After suffering through months of driving my gti in 100+ degree temperatures and air conditioning on full blast, things have finally cooled off enough in the mornings and evenings that I am able to drive with no AC, and the temperatures are in the mid to high 70's. Shortly after I got my Stage...

As said, all this does is acknowledge the speed that most people are going anyway, and attempts to eliminate the people going the current speed limit from causing accidents. As I understand it, the way speed limits are set in this state is that a survey of traffic on a road is done, and they...

This thing is like a knock off hand bag or something, and has been from the start. Looks the part, but has nothing under the sheet metal to back it up.

The IHI and the K04 both have pretty much zero perceptible lag, it is the torque surge that people mistake for lag, especially in the stage 1 cars.

If anything, this just goes to further enforce that Stage 1 tunes are completely safe for engine internals...of course this is assuming the don't really change much about the 2.0T, but I am guessing they are basically just turning up the boost, or using the K04 stock.

Immediately thought this is the new hippie mobile.

It looks like VW is definitely going to need to bump the HP on these cars. The biggest problem VW seems to have in the US market is not wanting to step on their other foot (audi). I would expect the mk7 gti to be in the neighborhood of 250hp 275ftlb stock. I realize that HP/TQ is not...

I am curious as to how drivers of DSG transmissions drive their cars, and more specifically how those coming from manual transmission to DSG drive vs those coming from automatics. I know the topic has come up about manually shifting vs leaving it in D or S, and want to see how those preferences...

I have started to notice a noise from my DSG when I pull into the garage. I have only started noticing it since I unplugged my soundaktor, so I am thinking maybe it has been there all along, but the soundaktor noise covered it up? I do not notice this sound at any other time, but when I am...

Hell yeah! You have provided me with hours of informative and entertaining posts. If I was that filthy rich, it surely deserves a new car and upgrades :) Thinking I might buy a couple of those 2.5 guys adding GTI exhaust and cosmetic changes an actual GTI too, haha