When someone adds profanity to their post, facts are not required. It is the Internet version of QED.
Do you live in a world where Porsche isn’t the ONLY German car brand? I know I do. Porsche has their own failure points, but you’d have to be silly to not think some things could be engineered better so they don’t constantly fail. Crank pulleys that separate, plastic thermostats that internally snap and engine mounts that aren’t rated for stock power levels, let alone anything above that. And that’s just naming a few in the Audi line. Even the RS and R models have the same failure points and those are made to see some track use. It’s just bad engineering they don’t want to fix because it’s what I call “calculated bad engineering”. They want their dealerships to have these things to work on where it’s low cost for the part and high cost for the labor. Some things are so badly designed, they’ll fail while in warranty... repetitively. You’d think they’d catch on... the tuner aftermarket has.
Do you live in a world where Porsche isn’t the ONLY German car brand? I know I do. Porsche has their own failure points, but you’d have to be silly to not think some things could be engineered better so they don’t constantly fail. Crank pulleys that separate, plastic thermostats that internally snap and engine mounts that aren’t rated for stock power levels, let alone anything above that. And that’s just naming a few in the Audi line. Even the RS and R models have the same failure points and those are made to see some track use. It’s just bad engineering they don’t want to fix because it’s what I call “calculated bad engineering”. They want their dealerships to have these things to work on where it’s low cost for the part and high cost for the labor. Some things are so badly designed, they’ll fail while in warranty... repetitively. You’d think they’d catch on... the tuner aftermarket has.
I think the year of vehicles is something you need to consider here because if yours were from the days when nobody bitched and moaned over their Starbucks coffee having a slight ripple affect in them due to engine vibration, you would have had good old solid mounts and not fluid filled void crap to make sure you’re all super comfy. Again, most of what you listed are older cars from an era where things were a bit more durable. Find someone with a newer BMW straight six who’s got oil leaks and other issues or pretty much any Audi post 2006 (even the 2.0L) and it’ll have mounts or other small/known issues that seem to go out after a couple of years of age on them. The more comfort and plastics they decided to implement into the drivetrain (suspension included), the more problems they developed. Even slightly older models of luxury Merc and Audi sedans that had air suspension. I challenge you to find one that’s not had issues with it. Like I said, what you picked and have experience with was solid, just like what I’ve picked and have experience with have had some issues. That said, for me, all the problems were expected and were fixed with aftermarket parts that no longer will be a problem in those areas. Fix once and done. Still annoying though when I see others run into the same issues because the manufacturer simply won’t address it, even though they keep releasing different revisions of said parts that are supposedly “stronger” but really aren’t.
You may have something here. My wife's volvo has a rubber bushing everywhere you look. They even have rubber isolating rubber! One car has the alternator, power steering pump and AC pump mounted with rubber bushings. It's all very quiet until it isn't. After a few years they are all going bad...one at a time. One of the cars we replace engine mounts/bushings every 3 years it seems. My 25 year old truck with 450K still has the same engine mounts and 1 new transmission mount! I've only replaced my 50 year old vette engine mounts twice...and I used to race it. They went out due to HP, not age.
Yep... just like 2000 year series Subarus had aluminum intake plenums and newer ones are plastic. There’s a place for phenolic plastics to be used and be fine and then there’s not. Unfortunately, when price vs profitability comes into play, that divider gets blurred badly. Ironically, the money saved by making things out of plastics doesn’t get passed onto the consumer as a savings on said vehicles. If anything, the consumer ends up paying more to fix it when it does break out of warranty.
I mean, no we don't.
Source?
Fantastic, will preorder ASAP.
He used a declarative sentence, ergo it must be true.
There's that. $900 would make it the most expensive WS RD. This could be a tough sell with R360c being only $800 with tax aaaaand coming with the legendary EscortLive.
