this is the world we live in.

i wish it only pertained to cars.

 

Yeah, I’ve quit posting useful info on there. You mention different viscosity or an overfill and all the broccoli headed kids come for you

 

Broccoli heads lol, yup that's them.

 

I've pretty much stopped using Reddit entirely as a resource for these cars. It's the same cycle of 10 questions and people that are too afraid to drive their cars. I really love the helpfulness and mature vibe we have on this forum.

 

reddit is full of airheads who have no critical thinking skills. its an echo chamber. I would say that a vast majority of them dont work on their own cars and just regurgitate what others say.

A lot of posts on there show owners who got into wrecks or ruined their cars by being idiots. that shows you the kind of members lurk there.

 

reddit is full of airheads who have no critical thinking skills. its an echo chamber.

This is also an echo chamber. Its just a smaller one with older people in it. This thread has "old man yells at cloud" energy. Let them have their fun. If you see a part out post with some brembos on that reddit someone let me know

 

They're here on this forum as well. Would NEVER buy this car used all because of what the broccoli tards do to these cars. Some you can't tell.

 

Yeah I'm with you... that's why I bought both of mine new with <10 miles on the clock. I don't trust these kids with these fragile cars!

 

Parts can get drowned?

And isn't gaskets sole function sealing??????

Dafaque

 

None of that blasphemous talk! She’s the daughter of a mechanic and getting married to one. There’s almost certainly no anecdotal accounts and definitely hours of research into the GRZ specifically to have arrived at her conclusion.

 

Same day. Can’t make this up

Are Hakones exclusively being purchased by dumbshit kids?

 

Same day. Can’t make this up
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Are Hakones exclusively being purchased by dumbshit kids?

So far, that's all I've seen driving them. Every twin I've seen in my area has been some broccoli kid driving it.

 

I hate to say this, but the Twins are priced too low for our own good. While it may be a so called "entry level sports car" it is most definitely not an "entry level car" for beginning drivers, and immature, inexperienced drivers, regardless of their chronological age.

 

I hate to say this, but the Twins are priced too low for our own good.

I'm genuinely baffled how "they" can afford it much less afford the auto insurance. I didn't think I was THAT Chinese.

 

And another one

Dead 86

 

Same day. Can’t make this up

And another one

These broccoli heads need to chill out... The car is already more to insure than a C8. I don't need it to get any worse.

 

All I want to know is where did these kids get the money to buy these cars with the current car market? A Hakone is almost $0K after taxes and fees assuming no ADM.

 

Tbf, I’ve found some good info on Reddit that isnt on these forums.

In fact the forums just arnt what they used to be like they were back in early 2000s, there’s less contributors, so less traffic, less knowledge.

I think since there’s just vast knowledge on reddit you’re going to get a ton of different varying results. Just need to have common sense to sift out what’s right.

 

In fact the forums just arnt what they used to be like they were back in early 2000s, there’s less contributors, so less traffic, less knowledge.

The bigger problem with the forums dying off is you have a lot of people just asking for answers via social media instead of searching and then in most caaes search is completely broken so you keep getting people asking the same questions and there's no archive to look back to for info. This also creates a lot of miss information too.

 

At least you can find spare parts easily right

 

The worst part of owning a twin is the stigma, and it is well deserved. You get the dopiness of Mustang drivers with the neon stanced fart can idiocy of the ricers. It's a heady combo.

 

"Im A DaUgHtER oF a MeChAniC aNd iM gEtTiNg MaRriEd tO OnE"

This is like during Covid when people were trying to give out medical advice saying "I work in a hospital!" and I'm like.... dude you work in the kitchen lol

In all seriousness, Reddit is a joke. The things I've seen people say regarding all sorts of different topics is wild, and people act like their tenure in the forum/group means they're a subject matter expert.

On the plus side, it provides some great entertainment.

 

As a big Reddit user, I've found r/GR86 is pretty bad but I do try to help people who ask a specific question I have experience with. With that said, every car also has good and "bad" owners/forum members/subreddits etc.

Due to the entry point, these cars are naturally going to attract younger buyers who maybe don't have their finances sorted out (something that kills me to read on r/GR86), make questionable modifications, or in general, aren't as knowledgeable as maybe we would like. We need to think long term - we've all made stupid car related decisions, but eventually some of these kids are going to be us one day and will be a source of knowledge. We can laugh at their inexperience now, but none of us should let this detract from the experience of these great cars. At the track, the community surrounding our cars is easily one of the most knowledgeable and friendly due to that low entry point.

There isn't greener grass with other cars. Try having a conversation with someone who has a superiority complex because they have an air-cooled 911 which is the "how god intended it", or they have a 997.2 the last "pure" 911, or how the "correct" way to spec a Carrera T is. That stuff is infuriating.

 

Majority of the broccoli tards in that sub care about looks and being Insta cool. It was never like this before twenty years ago. Friend of mine attributed it to the loss of print media like SSC and the extreme rise of social media. Most of the twins I've seen in my area reflects that. Slammed, loud exhaust stanced and huge wing for no apparent reason. A good tell tale sign it's all about looks? Every single one of them still have stock brakes unless it's a PP/special edition.

 

Lubricated parts can be too slippery? Engine internals slipping?? She must be marrying the guy at the dealer who goes around pressure washing the inventory. Wow.
I really wish we could keep broccoli heads from crashing these too. I'd love a second Twin but insurance rates are horrible from these dip fucks crashing all the time 🤦‍♂️

 

At least the bad advice posts on that thread were correctly downvoted. I wouldn't mind an up or downvoting system here.

 

yes and no. the voting system is a major driver in reddit being an echo chamber. some subs do it correctly and hide the points for a few hours after a comment is made so voters arent biased by previous votes

 

"Im A DaUgHtER oF a MeChAniC aNd iM gEtTiNg MaRriEd tO OnE"

This is like during Covid when people were trying to give out medical advice saying "I work in a hospital!" and I'm like.... dude you work in the kitchen lol

In all seriousness, Reddit is a joke. The things I've seen people say regarding all sorts of different topics is wild, and people act like their tenure in the forum/group means they're a subject matter expert.

On the plus side, it provides some great entertainment.

I never understood that mentality...i saw that a lot in science subs where people would give some info and cite themselves as the source because they are a phd student..equivalent to trust me bro

but yea the site is by and large just awful for most things. only a few niche subs are decent

As a big Reddit user, I've found r/GR86 is pretty bad but I do try to help people who ask a specific question I have experience with. With that said, every car also has good and "bad" owners/forum members/subreddits etc.

Due to the entry point, these cars are naturally going to attract younger buyers who maybe don't have their finances sorted out (something that kills me to read on r/GR86), make questionable modifications, or in general, aren't as knowledgeable as maybe we would like. We need to think long term - we've all made stupid car related decisions, but eventually some of these kids are going to be us one day and will be a source of knowledge. We can laugh at their inexperience now, but none of us should let this detract from the experience of these great cars. At the track, the community surrounding our cars is easily one of the most knowledgeable and friendly due to that low entry point.

There isn't greener grass with other cars. Try having a conversation with someone who has a superiority complex because they have an air-cooled 911 which is the "how god intended it", or they have a 997.2 the last "pure" 911, or how the "correct" way to spec a Carrera T is. That stuff is infuriating.

I wonder what the crash rates are for other entry sports cars like the turbo 4 camaros and mustangs. my theory is that it feels like the twins egg you on to drive it faster and faster around turns because that's where the thrills are. immature kids end up pushing things too far and wrecking them.

Certain Porsche groups being pretentious dont surprise me. ive heard ferrarichat is awful too. Somehow I think that is more tolerable than seeing kids wreck perfectly good cars, especially limited edition ones

 

I was on there yesterday after being away from that goofy ahh sub for a few months. Every other post is someone crashing their car or asking some goofy ahh question like it’s their first time ever using a car. No wonder why I was quoted $717 a month for my insurance. When it comes time to renew/shop around, if crazy numbers are being pulled this thing is being traded.

Edit: Also apparently the BRZ is one of the most ticketed cars in America.

 

...that could explain the massive price difference between the insurance for a BRZ and a GR86 for me in my area hahahahahaha
It was a super funny conversation with my local agent back when I was still cross shopping the two, especially when I explained that they are essentially the same car. "Must be that Subie drivers are a more risky demographic than Toyota ones around here, I guess" was the response. I didn't know about the tickets metric, that's hilarious.
Man, I do not miss working in insurance haha

 

It's pretty much where you go to post a picture of your wrecked GR86 but definitely not the place you go for car advice on your GR86.

Wait, I thought only people with genius intelligence were allowed on Reddit?

 

Toyota once overfilled the 1ZZ and 2ZZ as a workaround with old shortblock and made it standard with New shortblock.
They simply changed the oil dipstick where max was higher.

And on oder cars which burn oil I always overfill to prevent running with too low oil.
No problems at all.

Reddit is a weird spot in these days.

 

Engine failure and a crash all within hours of one another yesterday lmao

I hate it (there)

 

Yesterday someone posted that their engine died. Later came out that they never check the oil because he trusts the manual’s defined intervals which obviously means you won’t burn a drop of oil between oil changes ever.

Its a sad, sad crowd on there

 

I saw that one and facepalmed so hard. I gotta take a break from looking over there. I wonder how many replies are just AI responses too, hmm

 

“It’S uNaCCepTaBLe 4 a NeW cAR 2 coNsuMe OiL”

“It says it in the owner’s manual. Also, you should really see what the acceptable oil consumption spec of, for example, a brand new Porsche 911 is.”

“We’Re deADasS taLKinG aBt GR86’s nOt sUperCars fr fr”

“Ok, have fun!”