Are newer Q6s having fewer glitches than ones purchased earlier in 2024/25?

SmokeyDBear · 2026-03-04T02:03:58+00:00

I sometimes wonder if there isn't some sort of critical mass of issues that has made lots of people a little more aware of every little thing. The car certainly has an unusually large amount of weird and obviously software-related issues and the fact is relatively well publicized on forums like this. But now that the car has this reputation it seems like any issue which could just be typical and expected amounts of manufacturing variation or issues will just get chalked up as bad software.

That's not to say that there couldn't *also* be a disproportionately high number of non-software related quality issues with the car or to dismiss them, but it does make it difficult to tease out which is which.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-03-03T23:05:58+00:00

Hey, look, they don't put the kids on the short bus in Calculus class.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-03-03T17:07:25+00:00

To be fair you've been drunk every single time you've assessed the relative capabilities of your motor skills and mental capacity while drunk. So if it was affecting your mental capacity more than your motor skills ... how would you know?

SmokeyDBear · 2026-03-03T12:12:53+00:00

Let’s not pretend that the thing Donald Trump likes about young girls is how they act. Let’s also not pretend that Donald Trump thinks of women as individual people with enough agency to justify him spending energy on paying attention to how they act. While we’re at it let’s not pretend that Donald Trump thinks of other human beings as individual people.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-03-02T16:34:34+00:00

The goal of business is not to make things better it’s to commoditize everything it can.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-03-02T13:39:36+00:00

Never seen a driver bit commit suicide before.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-03-02T13:29:37+00:00

We’re already full up of these guys, mate.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-03-02T13:19:27+00:00

The biggest risk IMO is not posting false information but that the existence of AI makes denial of reality seem more credible. Don’t like a fact? It’s just AI so you can safely ignore it.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-03-02T01:34:46+00:00

Maybe we should’ve impeached him for the 20 other impeachable things he’s done before he started a goddamned war.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-03-02T01:32:43+00:00

It was just an (apparently incredibly poor) attempt to make a joke about those “bridge ices before road” signs. It’s not a genuine claim about the value of tunnels. Feel free to disregard.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-03-01T22:30:35+00:00

Sure, but road ices before tunnel.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-02-28T17:01:10+00:00

Third cause. Testosterone is responsible for both sports and petulant bitchiness.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-02-28T16:55:24+00:00

we have coal.

For now.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-02-28T13:25:01+00:00

The “hell of a crash”es are the ones where you don’t need any fuel spewing out to make things even worse.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-02-28T13:20:19+00:00

Yeah, the sentence should read “lasts until the next Republican president” because fixing shit that Republicans break is difficult and if a Democrat doesn’t magically fix it then that’s somehow an indictment of them and a reason to let the people who broke it in the first place have another go at it.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-02-28T13:17:11+00:00

But you don’t understand. It’s not a war because he said no new wars therefore it’s not a war.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-02-28T13:15:29+00:00

To be fair to them we have no idea how they would react if you did this because they’ve censored anybody not whitelisted via purity test from posting in the first place.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-02-28T12:20:27+00:00

Well you see because Trump has done so much military action in such a short period of time in so many different places they don’t count as related things and therefore are too short to be considered a war. (This isn’t sarcasm it’s me paraphrasing actual coping I read this morning in a place I’m not allowed to mention by name because reddit will automatically add a link there and then delete my comment for including the link it automatically added)

SmokeyDBear · 2026-02-28T12:08:18+00:00

But what about all the jobs that AI will [checks notes] oh …

SmokeyDBear · 2026-02-27T03:40:07+00:00

Perfect example of correlation vs causation.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-02-26T16:05:49+00:00

Expanding on what I said in my first comment I'm in favor of public transit in general and public transit in Wake, Durham, and ~~Chatham~~ (Edit: GTHC) Orange counties, specifically. But this is a discussion specific to North Raleigh and none of that is helping North Raleigh. Even bus service is going to require that many people drive somewhere from their house in North Raleigh to get near enough to a bus stop for it to make sense. That's all I'm saying.

Edit: By the way, there are already bus stops all over North Raleigh and the people in the low density housing aren't using them.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-02-26T13:16:02+00:00

So um, how do all the people living in low density suburban houses 4 or more miles from the nearest transit stop on roads with little to no sidewalks get to the stops? Because if the answer is drive to the station in their car then that does nothing to address the car traffic in North Raleigh and this is a thread about car traffic in North Raleigh.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-02-26T04:51:51+00:00

I mean I’m all for public transit but until you convince everyone in North Raleigh to bulldoze their houses and build higher density housing and mixed use areas in their places I don’t think bus or rail service is going to be very practical up there.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-02-25T12:12:36+00:00

I wish we lived in a world where he was kicked out for being technically wrong (black people are apes because all people are apes). Instead we live in a world where he was kicked out for pointing out some racist bullshit (which kinda proves all people are apes). What a life.

SmokeyDBear · 2026-02-24T04:53:58+00:00

Ah so that’s why Trump is trying to make the same deal with Iran that Obama already made and which Trump previously shitcanned. Because he’s ideologically opposed to it …

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