Ahh yes, the Honda... Makers of the worlds best valvetrain. Designed to break valves and wipe cams. If the engine DOES manage to last, the rest of the car falls apart before the engine dies. Oh and I have never seen a flimsier suspension setup in my life, first pothole and it bends.
Oh yeah, the only thing wrong with my VW is the goddam Chinese fuses keep corroding and the Chinese light bulbs fall apart and short out causing the CHINESE fuse to blow.
no matter, i need to figure out what aftermarket speakers can go in the back of it. i was told it has to be custom by crutchfield.com, it is a dsp unit
Originally VW's are pretty decent cars, it's the owners (especially outside from europe) who seems to think that since it's a VolksWagen it does not seem to need any maintenance and therefore the bad car conditions. Only car I could give a bad reccomendations from my experience is a bloody Ford Escort, that piece of shat rottens quicker than a corpse(sat more time under the hood than in cockpit).
Dangerous? Unpredictable? The only word that I see fitting is "ANNOYING!" Half the time it just won't go sideways and the other half you get it going and then ALL the power transfers to the wheel with NO traction and you look like an idiot.
That and if you keep the power on when the car straightens, the power does transfer back to the other wheel and it wiggles around a bit.
It is far worse to have a centrifugal locking differential. Get half way through the turn while one wheel is just spinning hopelessly then the flyweight kicks out and the diff locks and suddenly you are on full opposite lock and the passenger is freaking out.
thats why for the last 10 years their engines have been " mounted too low for irish roads " and that any faults " clearly are not our fault, please the warranty more closely "
and on the topic of honda's suspention being weak... i drive backroads all day, no faults, two socks went after 160k's worth of good service, 80 quid later good as new. Engines are grand, oil burners comment i agree, but even at that, 100 of examples of poor examples getting 200km without stress ( do that in a wankersvagen
It's dangerous and unpredictable compared to a decent LSD...
Unpredictable because it can chop and change between one/two wheels mid slide...very hard to control. Seen heaps of people spin because the open diff has caught them off guard. And thats just if you're trying to drift/clutch kick.
Open diff is terrifying when pushing it hard on twisties haha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb0-31roKlI
Good example..some guy in a soarer doing a skid in an open diff..one wheel spins, then it snaps to both, sends him into the curb. Shitty driver, but it shows why it can be unpredictable and dangerous.
Open diffs are driftable, just most people don't know how to handle them. I've drifted enough open diffed cars at our driftschool. Lol even a Dodge RAM SRT-10 last time....
i need some help here ... i wanna buy an used car in hungary but none of my friends knows a shit about registration and taxes and bla bla and my girlfriend doesnt even have a license...
so my question is this website to calculate an one time only fee if you register the car ? according to this site i have to pay like 800 euro to register an old Golf II from 1987
i thought this is just for cars from foreign countries...
and the other question is how is the annual tax being calculated...
is there a website too ?
i wish i were in germany its not like i never bought a car but everyone here is really clueless... thanks
Indeed it is. Where did you read that it applies for cars you buy in Hungary as well? To be more exact, once the car has hungarian papers, you don't have to pay registration tax.
so the link i posted i guess only applies if you want to register a new car from hungary or one that has never been registered in hungary for example new or used car from another country.
so if i understand it correctly i have to pay 2 things :
1. registration on my name in the car papers (depends on ccm) :
this is not so expensive... but its strange since you have to pay less for older cars - i tried some numbers... and the tax doesnt even take into account how environment friendly the car is...
if you register a new car or for the first time in hungary it very much depends on environment friendly rating.
Lol, you really own a 518i? Never saw one of those in my life, can you post a engine-bay pic please? I can't imagine how that 4cyl 1.8 would look in a engine-bay of the e34.