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  1. If I find one for face value, I'm there too. It's even easier for me, given all I care about is a single. I just don't expect these to fetch 2.5x or 3x face because the allotment has been reduced.
  2. Probably cheaper than one would expect. State Fair will be shut down, no beer sales, no food, tailgates and assemblies discouraged, no Fairgrounds pregame shows and the DART might not be running express routes to Fair Park.
  3. I've been thinking of this plan for a month now. How weird are the staff and patrons about wearing a mask around the property? No, I'm not 'anti-mask,' just don't think that's warranted outdoors, in the pool, or in the spa.
  4. You might be able to view an estimate of DCT clutch wear (and launch control use) through an at-home OBD diagnostic tool like Carly or ISTA. Unless the car was tracked, I wouldn't be concerned about it, as the service life has been reported to exceed 125K.
  5. DCT? If so, was your tech able to indicate clutch wear %? The wet clutch life of the rear differential is also one to look after-- if it was driven hard over its prior life, that rear diff can wear to the point of becoming an open differential, as early as 60-80K.
  6. CarPro or go home. CQuartz UK for your ceramic coating, Flex for your DA buffer, and dedicate a whole weekend for the correction detail, hopefully with most of the work done under the cover of your garage. Man I love my ceramic coating, it makes hand washes a breeze and nothing sticks to it. You'll have to enforce the rules to the wife: No automated washes and write NO WASH on all dealership service work orders.
  7. Swiped across Onyeka's Bumble profile the other night and the pics/bio appeared recently. She seems to be a cool chick and level-headed, I'm surprised it's something she would even attempt, having built up a fair social network.
  8. $80K car drivetrain with $30K car interior things. Cool that they figured out how to incorporate air suspension calibration with LC activation. It's a bit gimmicky to market that feature.
  9. The jump from stock to stage 1 tune is pretty intense on our cars, then again with RS7 turbos. I'm pretty deep down the rabbit hole of the varied upgrades and fortunately, only a select few mods are actually needed to dramatically change the car. After the Stage-1 tune, your next best bang-for-buck are Eurocode or H&R sway bars. Really tightens it up.
  10. Audi Master Guild-level mechanics can command top dollar just about anywhere. Their training (and tools) now cross over to Porsche and Lamborghini, so they've seen some pretty fancy shit and know their way around some complex repair jobs. Chewy: Good fucking work dodging the TD1 and getting Audi to pick up the repair tab on some new turbos. Not sure if you have any flex, but I'd happily drop by a pair of RS7 turbos to the shop foreman with a wink and nudge to get those instead. Ask him to inspect the PCV system and oil separator while he's in the valley-- it's the other not-fun thing that sometimes lets go on our engines, typically showing up as a whistle at idle. My miles are still fairly low but it's already tuned. One of these days it'll get a pair of Turbosystems TS1 cartridges and I'll never have to think about them again. With a canned tune, those are also good for 700HP and easy mid-10s.
  11. You could add the RSNAV fixed screen upgrade. Runs wireless AA/Carplay and adds a number of other functions as an overlay to the MMI: https://rsnav.com/products/10-25-1920x720-hd-android-7-1-2-4gb-64gb-s2-navigation-system-for-audi-c7-a6-s7-s6-s7-rs6-rs7
  12. Can't do it. Sing-and-dance reality TV jumped the shark after "____Got Talent." Every-fucking-theme these days is sing and dance. Lego Masters is way cooler than this shit.
  13. All the good stuff is online. There are some not-so-nice parts of our cars that are fairly expensive and warrant replacement after 60K, like the active motor mounts. Brake rotors, shocks/struts, control arm bushings and stretch bolts are reasonably priced-- even the DSG fluid change isn't so bad considering the engineering involved in those parts.
  14. 2012 A6 3.0T? I don't see where your totals could get that high, even on an aging car. What does it need and who came up with the diagnosis? Parts are cheap and if you're interested in keeping the car, just get an independent shop to do the work. You're not missing out on much from a newer model anyway. Near-nobody maintains their Lexotas to same standard over that time period-- that entire segment is bemoaned to do anything more than an oil change under the guise that Toyotas are designed to just gas-and-go, like the souless appliances they are. You're still likely tasked to do a cooling system overhaul, replacement of key suspension bushings, shocks/struts, brakes, all the shit that was overlooked as a truck passes the 60K-mi mark.
  15. That's a great topic to propose: Let's say you have extra room in the garage for a weekend cruiser. You get to choose one car to bring home as a nostalgia interest, but the catch is it must fit into a High School-nostalgia story. What's your choice? I had a '89 Mustang GT in my Jr and Sr years, so the Fox body is out. As a fun, obnoxious, too-loud, "fuck you" car, I want a '92 LX coupe in Calypso Green with a 5.2L Voodoo Aluminator XS crate swap and Griggs-all-the-things. Something like this: I lusted after the FD RX-7 at that time and it was far too expensive for anything I could afford or even hope to buy into college. A co-worker owned a '95 model, at the time I was a senior working in an office for a school co-op program. I probably knew just as much about the car as he did, but I never got to drive it. My choice is a Montego Blue RX-7 Touring. https://www.hagerty.com/media/buying-and-selling/bring-a-trailer-rx7-sells-for-world-record-amount/
  16. Audi's reliability reputation experienced a massive improvement in the early-2000s with the B8 A4/A5/Q5 models and C7 A6 when powertrains were refreshed. Everything got the ZF8HP transmission and the 3.2L V6 was substituted for the reliable and powerful 3.0 supercharged V6. The 1.8L VW-corporate turbo 4 was replaced with the 2.0L turbo 4 and the portfolio thrived with few changes over the last 8-10 years. On the high end, the 4.0 twin turbo V8 in my S6 has been plagued with premature turbocharger failure, some of which can be mitigated by oil screen replacement. To me, it's all the better excuse to upgrade to billet RS6/RS7 turbos. That was a Bentley-derived 4.0 that has has recently been replaced for the new RS6, RS7 and RSQ8. Now the Audi RS portfolio gets its powertrains straight from Porsche. The RS 2.9L turbo V6 is a Porsche catalog item as is the new 4.0L turbo V8. The new 3.0L turbo V6 in the S models was an Audi-Porsche collaborative design. 4-cylinder models remain VW-Audi corporate parts.
  17. I have the same B&O option in my S6 and it's the best damn sounding audio system I've heard in any car. Replaced the factory sub driver for an Audison APS 8 and it's near perfect.
  18. Glacier Audis all up in hurr (mine's a S6). Glad you fixed the wheels, I couldn't locate them in the first pic.
  19. Someone here has to have access to the city's Zoning and Development archives, right? Just pull the permit set and tell us what it's supposed to look like. I'm not a fan so far.
  20. Logistics were insufferable, especially to those used to how shit works when Texas-OU is playing. Only portions of the fairgrounds were open and most of it was a cattle-call with no more room to allow for elbows to assholes. $12 Bud Lights. DART fucking up their schedule by running only Green Line trains so everyone lumps into the same cars without a clue of how to get there or home. All that and it was an epic finish, glad I went. Weather could have been way worse and it's difficult to imagine this in a better venue.
  21. Get the nappy-headed ho killed too? I'm game.
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