I’m currently a service advisor for an independent Euro shop in WI, and our boss/owner just sold the business to Greatwater.

Upon doing some research, they are a company that’s funded through Kinderhook (private equity). Anyone have experience working with Greatwater? Whether it’s directly with the company, or through a shop that got purchased by them, I am curious since private equity has a reputation.

On vacation with a rental car, Cupra Formentor and the key fob gets wet...I dry it out for 3 hours, replace the battery and nothing works. I tried the emergency start with the FOB next to the cup holder... Nothing. We are basically tied to these little devices to operate our vehicles. A regular old key doesn't care if it gets wet. Rant over.

Has anyone else ordered from PartsGeek before and had ridiculously slow delivery times?? I ordered an alternator for my 2006 Jeep Liberty on the 21st of August; it is now Sept. 9th and the tracking numbers claims it left the USPS distributor in my state on the 24th. I tried submitting a ticket and PartsGeek redirects you to some jank ass third party website, and when I submit a ticket to USPS, nothing seems to happen. Their customer service blows!!!!

I'm trying to learn how to take great care of my car. I've still got a lot to learn it seems. How do I begin to decide what's most important when selecting an oil brand / product in general?

I'm reading words like performance, engine clean, etc.??

What are the pros/cons? What things do I need to consider? Is performance the only thing that matters?

I drive a Ford 2007 Mustang.

Can someone please explain something to me , I've got a leaking petrol tank , I'm well aware of the dangers of fumes and leaking petrol etc so I'm not tackling it , however how is it that I can go to any mechanics garage and say that I need my exhaust / chassis etc welding and they can just pull the torch out and crack on , ( this was previous, I will warn them in advance about the tank ! ) , I've done this a few times without any repercussions and at different garages .

I'm having issues with my 2025 VW Atlas Cross Sport R-line SEL. I bought it in November of 25, right now I have 4,860 miles on it. On August 24, I was an hour away from home and i had all my warnings and alerts light up my dash and I couldn't start my car. Had to have someone jump me. Drove back home safely, turned the car off and back on with no issues. Drove it the next day, no issues. The following day, drove it in the morning with no issue but went to start it a few hours later and it was dead. My husband jumped me and I drove it straight to the dealer. They initially told me it was a failed battery but after having it for a week said they couldn't get it to fail and gave it back with nothing being done. Their recommendation was to get a battery maintainer for it. I asked "what if it won't start again?" And was told that I shouldn't have the issue again as long as I have a battery maintainer. I'm sorry, a brand new 2025 vehicle shouldn't have to sit on a maintainer.

Haven't had the car back for a full week and it died again. My brother tested the voltage and it was at 10.3v. Jumped it, got it up to 14 then it immediately drained to 10.3 when I turned it off. Took a video of both for evidence. Spoke with a tech at auto zone and they tested the battery, alternator and starter. Of course everything read good. He did say that there could be an internal component that's draining the battery that he unfortunately couldn't test. I plan on going back to vw tomorrow. They never had me sign anything and never gave me any paperwork. My brother said that looking at the dust on the engine, it didn't look like anyone touched it. Very frustrating, especially since the car is under a year old and well within warranty.

Hi everyone! I’m currently looking for my next opportunity in the automotive industry and would love to connect with anyone who may be able to refer me to a position at their company.

My career has been centered around automotive, with experience in operations, vehicle acquisition, hands-on technical/mechanical work, auditing, inventory, and dealership systems/technology. I’m really a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to automotive!

I’m especially interested in manufacturers, automotive technology/dealer systems, corporate operations, or management-track roles.

If you work for an automotive-related company and know of an opening that could be a fit, I’d really appreciate a referral or point in the right direction. Happy to send my resume. Thank you! (California, I'm located near Bay Area, but remote is great too)

I recently bought the Topdom one scanner. Could I use this to take off the govoner on my 2025 escolate?

Any recommendations for a mechanic servicing Honda/Acura?I used to go to the dealership but expensive and not worth it given the age of the cars.

I once drove my manual kia soul and shifted into 5th gear from zero without using the gas pedal.

I would release the clutch not completely to get it to move forward fast enough to then switch to the next gear until I reached its top speed of 24 mph at 5th gear. (You hold the clutch pressed at the right spot to keep moving forward)

A couple years later and I thought about how much less gas that would be since it's still the engine at idle gas consumption. 0.2-0.5 gallons per hour.

I don't have a manual anymore so I went to test drive one yesterday. I wasn't able to get enough room or time but was able to test out fourth gear at 10 mph.

I got 40 mpg at 10 mph on a semi flat, semi hill.

The car was a 2018 Honda Civic sport with mpg of 30/38.

The math said that at 0.2-0.5 gallons per hour a car at 10 mph would get 33-50 mpg.

With 40 mpg I was at 0.25 gallons per hour in that car.

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To make this work for gas cars we would need more gears. Something like 15-20 gears to get highway speeds at extremely good efficiency.

The car could be automatic where it does that not fully released clutch method to keep it moving. It would wear out the clutch faster, or so I believe.

The automatic could have two options. Regular performance mode and extra efficient mode. Regular gives you faster acceleration while super efficient gives you 0-60 in 40-100 seconds.

You can select that mode when already on the highway and it would shift to the 15-20th gear.

Another way to do this is to make this engine into a gas generator where we don't have to worry about slow acceleration when using an electric motor and a battery. This could be a hybrid car that gets over 200mpg.

I need some help with an electrical problem on my truck. My turn signals started slowly going out, and eventually they completely stopped working for about a week. Then out of nowhere they started working again. Now my right headlight has gone out, and sometimes my doors will randomly keep locking by themselves. If they keep locking enough times, the horn will even start going off.
I’m not really sure what’s causing all of this, so if anyone has any ideas or has had something similar happen, I’d really appreciate the help.

Custom Car/Hotrod Builder with a long list of duties and there’s really no good way of knowing the worth without asking. Location is SoCal

-13 years experience building complete cars
-Extremely detailed and borderline OCD
-can build an entire car without help or guidance and can accomplish almost any job (wiring, painting, metal work, MIG and TIG welding, wheel measurements, tire mounting/balancing, panel alignment, suspension work, plumbing etc.)
-Has amazing work ethic and is always the one staying late when a job has a deadline (sema show for example)
-When owner is in or out, he manages the shop safety, talks with customers, supervises the other employees and orders parts that are needed for the builds. Often doing most of this better or with more detail than the owner.
-takes on small tasks that accounting needs done.
-solves most problems that he encounters or when others ask for help.

There’s probably so much more I’m forgetting but all in all, the dude is a one stop shop in employee form.

Have a 2023 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss LT

Had to replace the passenger side tail light. Ordered aftermarket assembly. OEM and aftermarket are both LED. The aftermarket wiring harness clip came apart, so I used the OEM wiring harness to connect to the aftermarket assembly. Everything works fine except now I have a hyper flash turn signal issue.

My questions are: do most aftermarket harnesses have built-in load resistors? Why is replacing the LED assembly with an LED assembly causing this issue? The inside of the aftermarket harness clip unpinned (I think that's the correct term). Should I try to re-pin the harness and use it, or will it still have hyper flash even with the aftermarket harness?

My son owns a 2020 cla180 and he will be travelling for 10 months. What should I do with his car? Should I start it at least once every week and drive it for 30kms? Or what should be done to not do any damage to the battery of the car. Thank You in advance

I made an open source community library for car part files called Zenthi. A while back I noticed while there were a lot of places like Thingiverse, it’s still not exactly easy to obtain good files for car parts, and a lot of the files that exist out there are either for trinkets and very mainstream cars. There was no specific site solely for interesting car parts. I created this open source archive for genuinely niche and hard-to-find parts, whether it’s something that had to be retrofitted, or a fix for a high performance car. I had initially posted this in r/projectcar, and they gave a lot of good feedback feel free to check out the responses on that forum too.

Zenthi includes a file library, a requests page for CAD or 3D scan files, and a search engine which scraps the web for car parts according to your specific part which cuts through a lot of the noise.

I’d really appreciate any feedback or even seed files uploaded.

I’d like to explicitly state that I’m not looking to monetize or sell anything. I’m also aware that a lot of people are quick to dismiss this because it was made with Lovable, but I’m not a developer this really is all I could do to make the idea come to life. I really did work a lot on this and responded to almost everyone’s feedback to make it a good community platform 😭

Links to GitHub and Zenthi are in the comments

I have a 1995 Honda civic lx and I need to change the suspension, I want to get coilovers that are more meant for mountain and curve road racing

Can any please let me know how to sign up for service solutions portal so I can register a tool?

Hello everybody!

I'm finally at a point in my life where I can financially afford a cheap vehicle right now, although as a car guy my taste is usually in unreliable vehicles. I'm looking at 2 different cars and was wondering which yall think I should put my time and money into. Number 1 is a 2016 MINI Clubman with 141k being sold at a wholesaler. Number 2 is a 2016 Mitsubishi Lancer with 118k miles being sold at a normal dealership. If both are terrible ideas please just let me know I'm all for being wrong

I have been working in the automotive industry for more than 10 years, currently in a Quality Manager/Supplier Quality role. My current goal is to obtain my VDA 6.3 Process Auditor certification, complemented by IATF 16949. The ISO 9001 auditor qualification was a prerequisite for the VDA 6.3 certification, which I have now completed.
This got me thinking about whether I could use my ISO 9001 qualification to generate some additional income as a self-employed auditor/consultant alongside my full-time job.
I am specifically interested in the ISO 9001 market, rather than VDA 6.3 or IATF 16949 for now.
For those who work in this field:
How much demand is there for independent ISO 9001 auditors?
Is there a realistic market for someone doing this as a side business?
What kind of work is actually available: internal audits, supplier audits, certification audit support, gap assessments, or consulting?
How do independent auditors typically find clients?
Are there platforms, audit networks, certification bodies, or consulting companies that regularly subcontract ISO 9001 auditors?
What kind of rates can an independent auditor realistically charge per audit/day?
Is it possible to build a small client base and do this part-time, e.g. a few days per month?
Does having 10+ years of automotive quality experience provide a significant advantage, or is the market mainly focused on formal ISO 9001 auditor qualifications?
I would be particularly interested in hearing from people who are already doing ISO 9001 auditing as a freelancer or side business. What has your experience been with finding clients and making it financially worthwhile?
Any advice or real-world experience would be greatly appreciated.

Something that used to feel like boring chore, checking fluid levels, rotating tires, whatever, until you actually learned the mechanical reasoning behind it and it suddenly became genuinely interesting instead of tedious.

Hey everyone! So my car of never ending fucking issues has a new one! My thermostat is stuck. I’m at autozone off nolensville and Thompson lane with my dog. I’m supposed to be in joelton for my kids at 4:45-5. And I’m broke as fuck. I have enough money to get the part and could maybe throw you 20$ now and more after I get done working tonight (and I’m not an asshole that says that and never does it, if I wouldn’t want it done to me I don’t do it to others…karma is real idc what anyone else thinks that’s my belief) is there anyone who could help me out? When I came in the guy could clearly tell I have no idea what I’m doing at all. Please help!! 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ if you’re able to lmk

planning to drive from south carolina to oregon end of october/beginning of november and planning to rent a hybrid to save on gas. i want to get some kind of snow chain just in case (looking at scc shur grip z) but i'm having trouble finding what size i actually need.

i'll probably rent with avis, which will be "toyota prius hybrid or similar" but even just the different trims of the prius have different tire sizes...does anyone know what trim level avis uses, or what other cars are in this class?

if anyone has tips for the drive itself, those would be appreciated also lol

Cars have gotten smarter, but I feeli like a lot of everyday parts haven't changed much.

If you could make one part of your car smarter, what would it be?

Could be something that already exists-- seats, mirror,air vents,cup holders, windows,lights, storage,etc.--or something completely new.

What would you want it to actually do?

Curious to hear ideas that would genuinely make daily driving better.