Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
I mean in a lot of the newer gas cars it's a similar thing too, or they cost a fortune to repair. I worked 55hrs over the past week, and about 80% of it was dealing with 4 cars whose engines had extremely brittle cylinders. Instead of adding OEM parts that'd break again after 4-6 months, we "borrowed" parts out of 2 2008 chrysler minivans.
Oh, while their transmissions/frames have been terrible over the years (one "meme" over here being that if you fail out of welding school you can get a job with them) their engines are surprisingly durable, at least in the mid 2000s. It was when they started diluting/not quality-testing their iron in 2013 that everything turned to shit.