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Wed Sep 23 04:55:31 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278736 << turns out that i was off the mark here. to wit : "Emissions system and fuel economy testing is conducted while a vehicle is placed on a dynamometer—think of it as a two big rollers or a treadmill—rather than driving on the road. The vehicle has only its driving wheels rolling (the front ones, in the case of VW vehicles). But the rear tires are station
Mon Sep 21 22:54:02 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> Government Motors kills people with flimsy ignition locks and VW decides their smallest car is fine without pisstank, yet VW is the bigger villain
Mon Sep 21 21:40:41 UTC 2015 <BingoBoingo> So reading about how USG wants to expand VW's sphincter I can across this enviroscam for the first time http://www.volvotrucks.com/trucks/australia-market/en-au/trucks/environment/Emissions_technology/AdBlue/questions_answers/Pages/question6.aspx
Fri Sep 18 23:57:22 UTC 2015 <assbot> Logged on 18-09-2015 19:02:42; kakobrekla: >When I last bought a VW (2008) I was concerned due to a clunking noise after first starting it up and driving a few miles; I called the VW service dept and they explained that there was a compressor which captured exhaust fumes and released them at a lower rate for the first few miles of each journey -- to help them meet EPA emissions standards.
Fri Sep 18 19:02:42 UTC 2015 <kakobrekla> >When I last bought a VW (2008) I was concerned due to a clunking noise after first starting it up and driving a few miles; I called the VW service dept and they explained that there was a compressor which captured exhaust fumes and released them at a lower rate for the first few miles of each journey -- to help them meet EPA emissions standards.
Fri Sep 18 04:50:30 UTC 2015 <assbot> VW Passat, 360 grieziens, 4X4 passat double. - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1MujRlo )
Thu Sep 03 11:04:53 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1261178 << if my family friend, a mechanic at the local audi dealership, is to be believed, then yes. a quick web search didn't reveal any evidence to the contrary either. so let's chalk up vw's bravado in the 'crazy but true' category
Wed Sep 02 22:46:47 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> to which vw/audi famously responded "ok fuck you amerikans zen, ve vill not pahblish ze manuels for AYNEEBODY"
Tue Aug 11 22:05:08 UTC 2015 <trinque> more like vw, and more like next to it, but whatever!
Sun Jul 19 01:36:09 UTC 2015 <decimation> my dad told me that his dad used to have an air-cooled vw beetle back in the day
Wed Jul 01 23:37:08 UTC 2015 <trinque> http://www.ft.com/fastft/353721/worker-killed-volkswagen-robot-accident << "VW said the robot had not suffered a technical defect." << LOL!
Sat Jun 13 19:37:46 UTC 2015 <trinque> I'll drive my current vw til it catches fire
Wed Apr 08 00:02:15 UTC 2015 <trinque> wouldn't mind getting one of the vw camper vans at some point
Fri Apr 03 21:48:00 UTC 2015 <trinque> current vw crapwagon nope
Thu Jan 08 23:52:41 UTC 2015 <pete_dushenski> and around 2007-08 porsche almost bought vw, then got flipped on its ass and the reverse happened
Thu Jan 08 23:51:08 UTC 2015 <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo there's something about vw that attracts this sort of thing. i recall a similar carnage in the 80, and then somerthing with audi
Thu Jan 08 23:50:37 UTC 2015 <assbot> Short sellers make VW the world's priciest firm | Reuters ... ( http://bit.ly/1HXxOTr )
Thu Jan 08 23:39:58 UTC 2015 <*> mircea_popescu hooked up old minifrige system to old vw golf for home made ac long ago
Fri Dec 19 18:55:02 UTC 2014 <rithm> back seat of a 74 vw beetle?
Tue Oct 14 02:28:54 UTC 2014 <mircea_popescu> guy goes around neighbourhood in his vw van, taking deprs to their new basements...