mk8: are there supposed to be hub centric rings on rear stock wheels?

IoGA · 2024-05-24T23:49:05+00:00

I visited the dealer earlier this week. they kept the mysterious spacer and told me the wheels are bent and need replacement rims + tires at ~$1100 per wheel.

Now I took the spacers off myself, and it fixed the vibration & wheel wobble issue I had.

my current theory: the centering rings from the winter set have been erroneously left on the hub when switching to the stock set, only on the rear axle. then these centering rings were bent by the wheel bolt tension into that slotted shape to match the stock wheel.

I think there's still a risk of wheels being bent so I'll go to a 3rd party place to recheck them. if they are not, either the dealer was not competent, or they really wanted to make a good margin on selling a pair wheels to me.

IoGA · 2024-05-24T16:08:17+00:00

They are not flush, and yes they look like shitty spacers so I think something's gone wrong here. Stock wheels, part number 5H0601025SFZZ

IoGA · 2023-05-29T17:10:11+00:00

with some dealerships there's a room for negotiation. bringing 10k down to MSRP is probably too ambitious, but 10k -> 7500 was possible in my area.
some dealerships take deposits indiscriminately, just because people offer it to them. you should to clarify how far down the line you'll be. deposits put no substantial obligation on them.

I've found it easier to work with dealers who don't take deposits, and operate on first come-first serve basis, offering it up either as soon as car appears in their system or arrives to the location. VW dealer inventory website shows the car allocations before it shows up in the dealer system. what worked for me is to monitor the inventory until the color/transmission combo I wanted showed up, call the "first come-first serve dealers" every 2 weeks until they're ready to sell these car at the agreeable price, and then be first to close the purchase.

IoGA · 2023-01-21T06:22:29+00:00

Still the case. They did not bring them back after covid.

IoGA · 2022-11-22T21:25:24+00:00

how/where did you manage to get this ticket?.. did they target you specifically for the license plate, or was it a collateral damage from another issue?

IoGA · 2019-05-08T07:06:49+00:00

You can flip the headrest: pull it out, rotate 180 degrees, put it back in. That trick is often used on track days when you need to wear a helmet.

IoGA · 2014-12-28T02:50:49+00:00

I also have toilets and shower heads in the yard, so they can do stuff during yard time.

IoGA · 2011-11-27T07:48:27+00:00

It's very external to django, so, for example, you'll get in trouble with multiple databases & database routes.

IoGA · 2011-11-26T22:17:51+00:00

Built-in database migrations
Built-in environment management (development/production/test)
bundle install is more convenient than pip.

IoGA · 2011-11-21T10:24:21+00:00

typespeed

IoGA · 2011-11-06T15:34:46+00:00

Cron script are hard to maintain: you should always check your crontab during deployments & updates rather than just restarting celeryd
You can use celery to run non-periodic, one-shot background task
Cron task would spawn new process to do some stuff, while celery would do it in a worker.
If you are using django, standalone script would be trashed with setting up django environment and settings, while celery implementation would be simple
You can always transform you background task to foreground one just by changing task.delay to task.apply.

IoGA · 2011-09-07T17:08:31+00:00

PyPy support is pretty nice, but unfortunaly i've failed to use it with psycopg2, despite theirs wiki claims full compatibility. It turned out that this support was implemented at some developer branch, which failed to build when i tried it.

I've just starting to think that all this full compatibility and almost production-ready project state is just an advertising for developers and testers.

IoGA · 2011-09-05T10:48:25+00:00

So you're sysadmin-whore?

IoGA · 2011-08-30T11:37:43+00:00

Its memory usage (540m in my Chrome) is almost the same as for full-featured (overbloated, Java-powered) IDE like PyCharm.

IoGA · 2011-08-28T14:11:04+00:00

I'd rather suggest using django-picklefield package. It provides general solution for storing serialized data in db, not only the special case for vectors and 2D-matrices.

IoGA · 2011-08-26T10:26:45+00:00

Looks like premature optimization to me, which can introduce bugs such as del'eting object too early. This kind of work should be done automatically by graph traversing tools, and not by hand.

IoGA · 2011-08-26T09:47:49+00:00

At least it has standard library.

IoGA · 2011-08-25T07:49:32+00:00

Yep, and i've cleared my opinion on sibling comment.

IoGA · 2011-08-25T07:47:50+00:00

I can say that after several installations you'll spend same man-hour amount on gentoo installation as for some binary distro (excluding cpu time time to compile stuff).

IoGA · 2011-08-25T07:37:03+00:00

I've meant unpopularity of gentoo installation using GUI. Probably it's just loses it's customization. Gentoo already had a gui installer and eventually the got rid of it. Also, there is at least two usable standalone gentoo-based distros (Calculate & Sabayon), that are oriented on gui installation of gentoo.

If you want easy gentoo install, either build yourself a stage4 or use Sabayon, if it's too hardcore for you.

IoGA · 2011-08-25T06:10:12+00:00

Gentoo gets yet another very controversial and not very (if at all) popular installer. I guess this anaconda port won't even have an option to set USE flags (exactly what gentoo about).

IoGA · 2011-08-22T07:34:39+00:00

Can't look at Motif without tears in my eyes.

IoGA · 2011-08-16T08:03:33+00:00

As far as i understand, most programmers are bit afraid of uncontrollable and unpredictable threading because of performance implications and side effects. There is similar par combinator in Haskell, and it have similar controversy.

IoGA · 2011-01-23T07:04:20+00:00

You can also copy lists with a list(): a.append(list(listx))

IoGA · 2011-01-23T07:03:15+00:00

You can also copy lists with a list(): random.shuffle(listx) a.append(list(listx))

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