I don't know if there's anything wrong with your setup but there is a different feel in my experience. Because there are two of them the discs don't seem to engage the same way every time when you're street driving and sometimes the clutch grabs more than it usually does. That's not really noticeable in a drag launch or on a track but slipping the clutch to smoothly leave a stop without revving high requires more modulation and seems to produce inconsistent results.
The existing engines in those cars are pretty good tbh. ZZ Performance has a shit ton of after market parts for most ecotec engines.
I think I'm.... Severely retarded.
It's always really interesting to me how much Americans hate and fear german cars. Is this the power of building them in Mexico? The American experiences of german stuff are so different to anything I've heard here in yurope.
Not just Americans, I'm British and hate German cars. Unreliable pieces of shit that are designed to be so expensive to fix that you just bin it and rent another one from the bank. Also usually driven by total and utter cunts who think that renting a BMW from the bank (usually poverty spec with m trim) makes them a driving god and desirable by women.
I'm (for shame) British and I've never heard of such reliability issues with German stuff. My Japanese cars have been far more unreliable than my German cars. Maybe its different for the povvo spec finance stuff though.
BMW use a fuck load of plastics which become brittle with heat and shit the bed, Audi in their higher end turbos used a shit strainer that costs like 20 bucks, but is an engine out and partial rebuild to fix or the engine starves of oil and bricks itself, Mercedes went to shit in the late 90's when rust became a feature.
I've had the same S2000 for the last 14 years which hasn't skipped a beat, and my second car is a 14 yr old Aston...yea...new cars are not for me.
I will make the point that ease of maintenance is not the same as reliability, the car being difficult to just drive away with access to no keys is kind of the point. I also haven't worked on Mercedes cars (have worked on VAG, BMW) - though I know secondhand how shit mercs are to work on due to fun experiences with Sprinters and Vitos. What I was trying to say in my original post is that when seeing American experiences recounted with brands like BMW in terms of reliability, they dont match what I've seen in yurope, of course its all anecdotal anyway. For what its worth the shittest cars I see on a regular basis are JLR products, Audis and Teslas.
My dad always said that about aircooled VWs. They were not reliable, but easy to work on and the parts were cheap so it worked out.
Interesting stuff. I know when it comes to NA/Euro security the exact same models have VERY different protocols even between US/Canada the exact same model/year/make will have a far superior security system.
