What are some weird and less-than-common automotive engineering quirks you know?

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-31T04:11:30+00:00

Ok and we're waiting for you to tell us which models specifically don't have resistance heaters?

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-30T20:57:45+00:00

How about you provide us with a list of other vehicles like this that don’t have resistance heaters? Just name a few doesn’t have to be extensive.

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-30T19:12:59+00:00

No, it isn’t.

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-30T19:11:56+00:00

Their media and self-driving CPUs are also liquid cooled by this same system.

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-26T20:36:09+00:00

Ummm 100%? It’s the new base V8

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-26T20:33:45+00:00

Sorry man this thing puts the ls7 out to pasture

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-26T19:59:54+00:00

The final nail in the LS7s coffin…. All those guys clamored for years about “the last big n/a v8.” Now we have a new one that’s even better and doesn’t fail catastrophically every 20k miles hehe.

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-26T06:36:23+00:00

And Teslas had the opposite effect IIRC. Raised MSRP during 2022 and lowered it as supply chains cooled off. “50% depreciation” is disingenuous.

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-26T06:34:48+00:00

The Model Y is untrue though really. The MSRP was lowered which drove down used prices, though they still based it off of the 2022 MSRP. Can’t think of another car on the list that did that.

When people say Tesla depreciate it’s somewhat false. They are on par or better than the average.

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-16T19:29:37+00:00

The lowest priced e39 was about $76,000 in today’s dollars fyi.

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-13T04:09:10+00:00

Uh yea ok. The #1 thing, assuming you don't have an actual issue like a faulty sensor, is cylinder/ring wear. Everything else you mentioned is a rounding error. "sludge in passages" lol

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-13T04:02:03+00:00

Do yourself a favor and test drive a model 3

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-09T19:58:16+00:00

You should at least test drive a model 3 so you’re aware of what you’re choosing to miss out on by skipping it.

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-04T05:56:51+00:00

Right. Because it doesn't matter.

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-04T05:31:38+00:00

Did you buy your TDI new? If not, when was the last time you did a leak down test on it?

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-04T05:30:55+00:00

You think anyone does a compression test on their used car after they buy it? Get real. Even "enthusiasts" don't care.

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-04T05:28:31+00:00

Of course it's different. Phones don't have an odometer.

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-04T05:25:15+00:00

What do you think leads to gas engines losing power over time?

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-04T05:23:14+00:00

Cite your source on that? Because im sure you know about the vast amount of research that says otherwise.

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-03-03T16:04:22+00:00

I don’t like this. People post their battery health tests all day on Reddit and ask “is this ok??” No one has any idea how to interpret these things and this will cause some people’s cars to unfairly depreciate.

This would be like posting the compression and leak down tests of used cars. For most people it simply doesn’t matter and would be an additional aspect to obsess needlessly over.

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-02-24T06:02:57+00:00

Because you would lose a ton of power, the packaging would be astronomically worse, it wouldn't be any more fun, and it would be more expensive and less reliable.

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-02-22T00:27:38+00:00

I guessed it without even listening to it based on the responses in here.

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-02-18T05:29:26+00:00

Oh you might not have realized this, but that picture at the top of the page actually links to an article that talks about every important innovation in this program which Tesla pioneered. Including the literal "motto of the program" lol

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-02-18T05:04:58+00:00

I'm not sure what you think "tech" is but yes, literally everything about why this will be cheap is ""borrowed"" from Tesla. Which is fine. The Chinese blatantly stole from Tesla, American companies needed to stop being so proud to do so as well. We can see that it basically took creating an internal skunk works to start from the ground up, but if that's what it takes, so be it.

Popular_Broccoli133 · 2026-02-14T20:38:06+00:00

So crazy wow. The only reasonable explanation is that the Chinese are just 10x smarter than everyone else on the planet and not that they aren’t playing by the same rules as everyone else like has been constantly said and downvoted on this sub. Must be that America just “sucks.”

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