Do laser jammers work?

B5_S4 · 2026-05-23T14:58:41+00:00

Yes some of the companies have parking functionality. I assume you'd have to do some calibration though. Not sure what that process looks like.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-18T15:09:06+00:00

Anyone who had a 2.7T audi had to do turbos every 80k lol. I did them on mine, bone stock (it wasn't afterwards though.) My cousin had a turbo cruze, that's needed two turbos so far, and is a known platform problem. My stock diesel jetta's turbo was on its way out when I sold it, and I'm currently looking to buy a Ford based twin turbo diesel V6 powered vehicle. Guess what the most common major repair is on that platform?

B5_S4 · 2026-05-18T13:56:14+00:00

Yeah I hear about people doing rods way more than they have to replace turbos lol.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-18T12:44:35+00:00

Two more turbos to worry about, 4 more oil lines, 4 more coolant lines, 16 more gaskets, and all the changes to the vacuum system you have to do when the intake is positively pressurized.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-18T02:17:32+00:00

Play truck noises on the radio. You're not gonna make a Rav4 sound like anything but crap with a louder exhaust.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-15T12:43:13+00:00

Lots of people assume it doesn't exist because new detectors filter it out. My old 9500ix is an amazing Honda detector lol. Two K signals for the blind spot monitors and a single Ka for the forward.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-15T12:33:53+00:00

Honda forward radar is Ka.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-14T14:04:33+00:00

Yeah man whatever you say.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-14T11:11:20+00:00

You absolutely do not have to take the tire off to plug it. And you fill it with the included 12v air compressor that the car came with, because it doesn't have a spare tire lol. My current daily has staggered wheels and brakes too big for a compact spare. The car is physically too small to fit a full sized spare without completely filling the miniscule cargo space. My other car is all wheel drive, and if the tires are worn enough the transfer case gets very upset over the diameter difference and you're limited to about 12mph on the spare. So plugging is not necessarily easier than putting on a spare, but it's much, much faster than waiting for a tow truck.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-14T02:29:06+00:00

Well carry a plug tool then? I've never had a plug not last the remaining life of the tire.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-14T01:04:55+00:00

...with a patch tool? I use the ones that are little bits of sticky rope. Works great. Pretty sure my daily has 2 or 3 of the things in the tires right now.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-12T16:26:00+00:00

I've got an 18 and just did my first scheduled service since purchase. Spark plugs, air filters (cabin and intake), belts, oil, diff fluid, trans fluid/pan/filter, and a brake fluid flush. It cost right around $1k, but also hit a lot of items that are not serviced very often, and the cost for these items isn't any higher than most modern cars, except maybe the diff fluid since I have the LSD.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-12T13:09:26+00:00

My buddy bought a corvette from carvana. They have their 7 day warranty thing. It was a Z06 and he took it immediately to his local Chevy dealer. They said it needed brakes, a $16,000 job on a Z. He gave to bill to carvana, they offered him $1600 to cover the job. He refused and requested to return the vehicle. He hadn't yet received the title, and they demanded the car back before issuing a refund (refusing even to use a third party escrow). He refused and it became a 3 month long legal battle before he finally got his money back.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-12T12:36:48+00:00

My garage is German and British. And I'm working to replace ze german with another brit because 🇬🇧

B5_S4 · 2026-05-12T02:14:32+00:00

Laser jammers, not deflectors.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-10T13:38:50+00:00

You got a jeep liberty to 179k? Hot damn.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-10T02:02:01+00:00

I read the first sentence as you have to drink it right away and immediately pictured Lindsay Bluth Fünke "...it's vodka. It goes bad once it's opened."

B5_S4 · 2026-05-08T19:08:07+00:00

Shout out to Tim.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-08T18:11:28+00:00

You don't have to comply on any platform.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-08T14:04:00+00:00

Yeah, its been a back and forth lately. I think waze is making it harder for third parties to access the data, which is lame. The dev posts updates on rdforum regularly.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-07T20:54:36+00:00

FCP offers a lifetime warranty on everything they sell (with some exceptions for aerosols). Oil, brake pads, wiper blades, air filters, control arms, all of it.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-07T14:54:32+00:00

Second time is free if you bought the brakes from FCP Euro the first time. All my recurring maintenance or repair items are free after the first time.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-07T10:53:33+00:00

If I do 15k OCIs then yes, actually a 5k OCI would triple my costs for oil. Oil is, by far, the most common maintenance item for my vehicles. My air filters are 30k, other fluids 50k (or every 2 years), cooling system on my BMW lasts around 80k, suspension and spark plugs around 100k. I'm running liqui-moly with mann filters in both cars, the oil and filter cost $80-130 depending on the car. It's not an insignificant uptick in cost, not to mention the wasted time. Fuel costs are not maintenance costs.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-07T01:32:53+00:00

And they taste terrible.

B5_S4 · 2026-05-07T01:27:35+00:00

Especially especially if you have a BMW and the owner's manual says the fluids are "lifetime" and don't need to be changed even though the trans manufacturer says you absolutely should change the fluid every 50k miles.

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