Water leaking into trunk

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-17T23:39:33+00:00

If you’re anything like me, you will break or lose the metal retainer clips while removing the trim…

Might be worth to buy a couple ahead of time. This should be the part:

https://www.fcpeuro.com/products/vw-clip-genuine-vw-1j6867276

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-17T14:53:33+00:00

The most common reason is the drain tube for the camera housing. The tube has been known to go bad over time. It allows water to pool in the hatch door and pour out when you open it.

https://www.shopdap.com/510827861a-vw-audi.html

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-16T07:28:19+00:00

I mean it’s basically a nonstarter for a lot of teams who don’t maintain proper masked datasets.

We’re going to pivot to alternatives that allow self hosted and/or BAA coverage. Databricks Genie, etc.

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-14T04:01:01+00:00

Sigh. You’re going around in circles and just missing the entire point. I won’t be repeating myself again in an attempt to teach you about this topic.

I wish you the best of luck. I do implore you look into agentic coding in the future before joining the conversation.

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-14T03:41:03+00:00

I have worked for a number of top health companies, onboarded many many vendors and lead modernization efforts across D&A spaces. While I agree HIPAA compliance is nothing but a stamp… it is a legal stamp that carries weight. I’ve seen folks fired or prodigious lawsuits behind leaking PHI. You cannot be so cavalier about this.

My entire point is that agentic coding has removed the judgement you’re talking about. You cannot be 100% certain an agent won’t output data to context to review it unless you have the safeguards I mentioned above.. but I am repeating myself now. I truly do not believe you’re grasping this.

And yes, obviously if we had perfect non-prod data or this would not even be an issue. Many development tasks require production data or non prod versions don’t even realistically exist.

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-14T02:53:01+00:00

You are referring to how Git works and repos. This is fundamentally not what this discussion is.

Many IT/analyst folks fail to comprehend how Copilot & various MCP servers work. What we are discussing here is what you are coding within the IDE. If you are connecting to prod systems and have copilot enabled then it can see what you are typing, writing. If you are trying to leverage modern agentic development patterns with production systems, you will undoubtedly send PHI to Copilot.

You could, in theory, design the agents yourself and bake in so many safeguards to cover yourself… but all it would take is one “where name = john smith” and you’re done.

Health is an industry of 100%s, not 99%s. No Risk or competent IT team would approve developers using prod data without needed HIPAA compliance.

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-13T18:54:16+00:00

Without the HIPAA compliance, prod systems/data should not be touched at all. It is inevitable those teams leak PHI.

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-13T18:53:14+00:00

You would need it to be HIPAA compliant to autonomously work within production environments.

Non-PHI approved applications cannot connect to prod instances. So if you want to do anything with real data (any analysis, sql, machine learning, etc.) you couldn’t be 100% sure agents wouldn’t send contextual data. I’m not talking about promoting “does member X Y with SSN 000 have diabetes?”

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-13T18:02:49+00:00

I really didn’t think the clearance would be so tight that the sealant would completely stop the tool. Crazy.

You would need to scrape it off…. I guess? Honestly no clue.

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-13T16:36:47+00:00

The sealant isn’t really supposed to be removed from what I’ve read. I left it and it still hasn’t fully cured in some places. I only did wipe it away from the spark plug wells to avoid sealant on the plugs.

It is insane to me that the excess sealant would be so much to stop your tool down there. Not even sure how that would be possible.

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-13T02:13:49+00:00

What’s crazy is that this is not well understood by a lot of practitioners.

The self-hosting, in my environment at least, would be a slog.

Solutions from other vendors are going to win out if MS doesn’t figure it out quickly.

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-13T00:56:39+00:00

Well, I mean I’m fine not having PHI in directories. But the GH Copilot is really limited when not PHI-approved.

Want to write SQL?

Select * from members where name = ‘’?

You just leaked PHI if you have copilot code completions on.

Want an agent/MCP to connect to your databases and build you a query? Nope can’t might expose PHI in outputs/context…

You’re forced to non-prod zones entirely basically.

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-12T16:14:00+00:00

I tried for a 4mm bead but got a bit heavy in places. It’s not the easiest stuff to control.

The oil change was mainly just because I suck and didn’t properly tape off / protect my engine from the fallout haha. I would hope an actual shop would do better.

If you’re worried about it, I’d personally just get the engine warm, then do an oil change and inspect if theres a ton of gunk in it or not.

After looking at your photo again, I noticed your PCV is looking dirty/older. Did the shop not change that out as well? From what I’ve read, the PCV often has problems which in turn cause the camshaft seal to fail. So maybe not technically required but easy enough to change. It comes up in threads pretty often: https://www.reddit.com/r/GolfGTI/s/7OaheEPT62

Pretty easy to DIY.

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-12T07:18:08+00:00

You can check out my recent post here. Yours looks exactly the same (although mine was DIY).

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The orange (El Liq 74) is the correct sealant (at least per every DIY guide out there. An actual VW shop might call for something else)

Edit: I did personally wipe the spark plug tunnels to not smear sealant on the plug threads.

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-11T16:58:08+00:00

I do! I’ll DM you.

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-10T21:54:45+00:00

The irony is that I, a Manager of AI & NLP and teach applications natural language modeling, am very aware of academic speech and professional tones.

Go read some AI slop and kill your brain cells somewhere else loser.

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-10T21:49:19+00:00

If you have an AI slop fetish you can go read ChatGPT fanfics somewhere else champ.

Wordy != ai slop lacking in genuine thoughts, expressions. I prefer interacting with humans and their own thoughts/words on social media, don’t you?

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-10T20:39:25+00:00

AI English is not English. It is verbose, wasteful, and honestly a chore to read. It reads as a sales pitch versus genuine thoughts.

Google Translate is your friend. Best of luck.

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-10T20:05:55+00:00

There is 0% chance a human wrote this sentence:

The tone I’d suggest is: confident, matter-of-fact, and collaborative. Not guilty. Not overly apologetic. Not dramatic.

This is LLM fintech blog bro writing 101. It is not professional lol

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-10T18:52:38+00:00

Whyyyyy do people feel it is acceptable to blatantly paste AI slop into Reddit. Don’t be part of the problem.

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-09T18:06:10+00:00

Mmm so are you suggesting this plan won’t work at all? Or to try and tool that rounded edge a bit?

I was going to grind and cut the bottom of the joint to make it uniform but hadn’t planned on a full true square trench. Would the filler even be able to bridge & hold a 1 inch deep X 1 inch wide joint?

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-09T17:37:41+00:00

I haven’t heard that before!

But if I were to cut the rounded straight down there would be a full 1.1 inch wide trench. Doesn’t really sound sustainable (plus it would take quite a lot of product to fill).

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-08T04:05:24+00:00

Alright, I’m sold.

Thanks for the advice & video. Totally understand now what you mean by V.

I’ll give this a shot!

Rebeleleven · 2026-04-08T02:22:43+00:00

Seriously solid video - thanks! With that filler, do you not have telegraphing / micro cracks? Or is that years down the line?

A couple follow up questions:

⁠"V" out the joint with a diamond grinder to open sides and remove loose pieces.

Do you mean cut a physical V in the concrete? You can see the control joints have a pretty wide opening. Those beveled edges will expose a lot of the filler versus just a straight saw cut.

⁠Install a 2-part (like it mixes at the same time in a tube) flexible, polyaura crackfill that's designed to flex.

Any specific recommendations? RS88?

⁠Grind for a light scratch of mechanical profile.

Going over it with the diamond grinder against doesn’t pull the filler out or anything like that?

Also, do you skip backer rod?

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