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I want to give you guys a behind the scenes look at what it means to be a Volkswagen tech. Share some of the crazy thing that go on in the dealership. Just about the time I feel like I have this job figured out, BAM, I get served a big slice of humble pie! Please feel free to pass this along to anyone! Thanks

06/17/2026

It’s so wild to me a few Bolt on parts and software can bring us to 600+ HP Unitronic

I think later this summer we should dyno it and see how much she puts down.

06/16/2026

Is Audi USA out here trolling us? I kinda hope so. Or maybe this is for more than water.

And as far as Copart well, it may come as no surprise they are no help when things aren’t right. Poor disclosure? Not our fault. It’s the damn Spider-Man finger point meme.

I’m sure they won’t see it, and if they do, won’t care but if you have a bad Copart story share it!

Also huge shoutout to CARS4.BID for going to bat for me with Copart and the yard.

06/12/2026

Two cars in the shop. Both VR6 both eventually will be supercharged. Which is pretty cool.

The mk3 belongs to .air.imports and will be a fun project over the summer. I have the supercharger set up, coilovers and Swaybars wheels and brakes from and a ton of other goodies to do. (Wait until you see the seatbelts did)
This is also finished in Fish White which is a dope choice.

The r32 is my Tornado Pink 240k mile daily. She won’t get the until later this year. But it needs some love anyway.

And the SQ5 I mentioned. Well let’s just say I’m not really thrilled with at this point. But the good thing there is, they don’t GAF. So that’s fun 🙄. Maybe I’ll share my full unfiltered thoughts. It will be filled with some pretty vile profanity 🤣.

I’m faced with the opportunity to buy my white turbo vr GTI back. She looks good, but I don’t know if I can swing it in ...
06/09/2026

I’m faced with the opportunity to buy my white turbo vr GTI back. She looks good, but I don’t know if I can swing it in the budget. What would you do if you were in my shoes?

Or if anyone is in the market for a turbo mk3, drop that in the comments.

06/06/2026

Found an old reel I never finished back when and I were working on the yellow golf r rs3 swap. Can’t believe this was almost 2.5 years ago.

On the way to ATL this week my red r32 started to have an odd vibration on acceleration. So while I get it in and figure out the issue, I’ll be daily driving the yellow one. I’m not even sad about it. Lol

HEAR ME OUT… this song seems to perfectly embody what working on VW/Audi/Porsche is like. Probably other brands too. Hah...
06/05/2026

HEAR ME OUT… this song seems to perfectly embody what working on VW/Audi/Porsche is like. Probably other brands too. Haha

Was driving to .cary this am and this some came on. Of course heard it a million times but today I was like DAMN that’s vw life 🤣🤣

What other songs could you perfectly mate to vw/audi repair life?

06/03/2026

Had the absolute pleasure of attending with the amazing folks at Ive been doing wiring repair demos on a very sad Porsche harness.

It’s been awesome to see so many kids working their butts off at this event.

Give you some hope for the future that we will still have people that can do things.

Want to build an awesome Diagnosis tool box, see the FIRST COMMENT Ive been putting together this diagnostic cart/box to...
05/31/2026

Want to build an awesome Diagnosis tool box, see the FIRST COMMENT

Ive been putting together this diagnostic cart/box together over the last year and a half. You've seen it in a bunch of videos. LOL

Sometimes thats digging into wiring diagrams, some times its with King of the Hill playing in the background :P

05/28/2026

If you asked me at “how’s the black r32” i probably had some snarky response like “well it runs like &/):&-)”.

That’s because it did run awful. Ran enough to get on the trailer and around, but ran poorly.

Well i figured out one of the issues. Not sure I used the smoke machine “properly” but hey if it got me to a solution it had to be right. RIGHT? 😜🤣

Still have some bugs to work out. But all in good time. Put almost 100miles on it before shipping to for Low and Joe.












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