Fenixgoon
Lifer
- Jun 30, 2003
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I need to pull the engine, or at least subframe, in my 2008 S6 to replace the starter motor. Buying that car was a financially terrible idea. But hey, yolo 🥲I’ve watched my next door neighbor ( one of my black friends) go through 4Jettas and one Audi A6….in 11 years.
When one Jetta breaks beyond his skill to repair, he junks it and buys another. Biggest waste of money, but he loves ‘em.
Interestingly, the frequency of failures on them has allowed me to teach him some wrenching skills. Before we moved in, he knew really nothing…not even how to change oil. After a $100 oil change on his first Jetta, I showed how much oil and filter cost Asked me show him how to do it himself.
11 years later and he’s doing brakes, plugs and coils, power window repair….and more.
Gotta hand it to those Jettas..they encouraged learning repair skills in him.
I've done a carbon clean, spark plugs, fuel injectors, coil packs, oil pan gasket, water pump and I should probably do the head gasket (and while I'm there, 1000 other things). Trying to avoid scope creep though