Aaron Clinton

While untrue years ago, this is definitely true over the last 10 or 15 years. We have been making a lot of money off them lately. The sx-wifey's civic didn't give us any problems. Then again, there was nothing to break.

I guess it is all really a perspective thing. I look at the vehicles everyone here thinks are so great and I think "what a pile of shit". But I get to work on these cars. I see them with hundreds of thousands of miles on them, and I see the associated repair bills and maintenance costs. I see how they hold up, how well they are really engineered, and how those "cheap looking" plastic interiors hold up when compared to their wrapped brethren. I drive all Buick cars, and Nissan trucks. I don't want the high costs associated with bullshit cars that look pretty, but are substantive crap. I don't want to have to come home only to fix my cars, and if I have to, I want it to be easy. [/rant] The wrapped cars require some pre-thought before purchase. The cheapest 2 cars I've ever owned for maintenance were both M type BMW's. And of course right now I get to drive something work leases for me and picks up the service. I only pay for repairs & tires, but the certified bumper to bumper takes care of everything but the tires. As for the substantive crap, I'm curious what tops your list. The biggest BS on the road? VW/Audi. One of the biggest disappointments from my perspective is Infinity. I can see the Silverado being a burner. They suffer high cost failures, like fuel pumps and cats, older models had issues with water pumps and intake manifolds. I have seen some that eat distributors like they were candy. While I generally prefer GM, I wouldn't own a Chevy V8 truck, unless it was a big block. I am not really a truck fan myself though. I hate working on them, I hate driving them, and they are all pieces of shit. Fords have got to be the worst. Their 3 valve head issues, and coil failures are a nightmare. Camshafts locking up, timing chains falling apart, GEM module failures, rear ends coming apart. I would rather eat Pamela Anderson's blown out hepatitis loaded ass then own a Ford truck. Euros are general junk from a wrench's perspective. Failure rates today are through the roof. Stupid shit like MAF boots falling apart, and they cost a fortune. All their rubber is awful (now we know why Chrysler has so many issues with EVAP hoses falling apart!), and their diagnostic strategy is retarded. The information they offer us is a joke. Their guided fault finding is an insult to a real technician's intelligence, and it leads to the wrong conclusion 50% of the time. Note to German engineers, not everyone working on a car has an education level equivalent to your second grader! Their electronics are horrible, with constant MAF failures, and big ticket items like drive by wire throttle body failures all the time. As a general rule I find most vehicles to be disappointments. I love getting into G35s and seeing the entire interior falling apart around me. You paid what for this POS? But I am a cynic. Totally understand how you feel coming from your POV. I have always loved VW's, would love a AWD Golf-R, but I cannot subject myself to the cheap materials, along with horrible reliability. So maybe VW is a good car to lease, as in unload it at 40k before everything falls to crap.

It's called well earned and deserved time off. J Sickening that in this country, it is the first holiday in nearly 2 months, followed by another 2 month drought. Haha, not like I take days off anyway.

The packing issue has addressed on the Xcon's, as they are all now crated like the Zcon's. The couple of Xcon's that have had a dust cap snafu, we are addressing it right now, and I think people will really like the results. And to the second part of your post, be careful what you wish for.

Why would I not attempt that first? I pulled the sub from the box and the surround off only to see that the basket is cracker behind the surround. Meaning it was either damaged during shipping, or before it was even shipped. The sub was shipped just about as recklessly as one could possibly ship it. It was just a regular cardboard box with Styrofoam sitting inside it (not specifically positioned anywhere). When I saw the box the first thing I thought was that I would file a claim ASAP if I opened it and saw any damage. I opened it and it looked fine when it really had hidden damage. There is no reason why I should be a happy go lucky customer when I got a damaged sub due to the lack of proper packaging. Yeah UPS could have been responsible but that would not have happened (at least in that specific spot) if the sub had been crate packaged like I see they are all over online. What else does the build house really expect will happen when they throw and 65 lbs 18" sub in a cardboard box and hand it over to be shipped? Maybe you're new to it, if so, no worries. But, a paypal dispute is on of the last things to try when there is an issue and the selling company is not responding or addressing the issue. It is for when product is not delivered or wrong product delivered, not shipping damage. Paypal does not have anything to do with UPS. This was not an issue with packing until these last couple of months a few started popping up, and we have already had the factory switch over crating the Xcon's (only Zcon's were crate packed, so you are mistaken about seeing Xcon's crated all over online). Never said you should be a happy go lucky customer, not even close, but at least have some respect for the concept of business and give the business at least a moment to address the problem. As I said via email, we will be sending you a shipping label shortly and covering the damages/repair.

Mark is updating the store for Fi now.

We will cover this repair asap of course. Don't appreciate the attempt at a paypal dispute before we have a chance to fix it.

I mean, if you want I can have a few of the moderators throw some warnings on there for fun.

There is nothing to change, you have no warnings on your account.

Sorry, just no way to stay up on shows if I want to keep customers happy. I'm only kidding, I understand that you are a busy man.

Truck looks very clean. No way that tint on the lights would fly here.

Miss mine from time to time.

Sorry, just no way to stay up on shows if I want to keep customers happy.

That I knew, I just figured there were more like 6, 8 or 10 people there to build stuff. It's hard to fathom how 3 people can keep up with the number of orders. They must have the build process down to a fine science is all I can imagine. It's called the race to ZERO. Cannot keep up with similar margins as other brands go cheaper and cheaper, which means minimal money for employees and production.

Please email us asap so we can get this corrected. support @ soundsolutionsaudio.com

Need to say no comment at this moment, before anything is set in stone either way. May have more info soon.

He's got #hoproblems.

'Tis loud.

Wait, what? Why? Not enough umph? It doesn't make power until over 6000 or so. It's powerband is awful. It is beautiful to look at but not much else IMO. IMO the Elise I worked on was lacking off the line too, but it is so small and light, and the engine revved so fast it was still fun. I liked it better with the turbo on it when the thing wasn't falling on it's face. I wish that it was fixable as it was rather than having to go back to stock with it. The drawback was that the piggybacked brain took the VVT out of it. So while it was much more fun on the bottom end with the turbo, the VVT made it a badass up top without the turbo. Neither of you guys would like my car then. Power is all at the top and it's still not all that much, but the interior is nice.

Cunts, cocks & assholes... Wow, I just finished a project for Exelon Fore Rivers.

Wait, what? Why? Not enough umph?

Like double cream.