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kleinbl00  ·  2500 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 24, 2017

    You really do feel super manly when you can pop the hood in a parking lot and fix a barely-functional car without a mechanic or tow.

Just beware of the opposite - when you fix your friend's dead battery and end up cooking off her voltage regulator because red is positive and black is negative UNLESS YOU'RE VOLKSWAGEN. Or when fuses exist to keep surges from damaging electronics UNLESS YOU'RE VOLKSWAGEN.

On the plus side, it's a diesel which means they're buying it back for more than she paid for it and this little peccadillo meant they accelerated the schedule three months and since they're going to crush it anyway they don't give a shit that the voltage regulator is cooked since it starts and runs. So in the end, she paid $180 for a new battery to get out of HER FUCKING VOLKSWAGEN. Which doesn't quite make up for the $800 they charged her to replace the urea sensor on their fraudulent emissions system BECAUSE THEY'RE FUCKING VOLKSWAGEN.

So yeah. I know that feeling. But this week, THANKS TO FUCKING VOLKSWAGEN, I discovered what it is to cripple a car by changing out the goddamn battery. THANKS VOLKSWAGEN.





user-inactivated  ·  2500 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    red is positive and black is negative UNLESS YOU'RE VOLKSWAGEN.

wat. I believe you, but I didn't find the expected horror stories googling "volkswagen red is negative" or "volkwagen black is positive"

kleinbl00  ·  2500 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Pictured below zebra2's comment is a "brown" negative earth cable.

you get the black positive cable.

zebra2  ·  2500 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You just don't get along with VW do you?

kleinbl00  ·  2500 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I thought the magical $60/bottle coolant that turns to jello when you mix it with Prestone was bad enough then I met this fucker.

but yeah. Fuck those piece of shit nazimobiles.