🔧 BUILD Jimbo's new DDD - Daily Dad Driver. V: 2019 VW Arteon SEL Premium R-Line

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Stopped by the dealer at lunch time yesterday, told the sales guy I didn't really want to waste his time, as I already viewed the car online and snuck over on a Sunday with the wife to check it out. Had all the gizmos and gadgets I wanted, so knew it'd be a solid car. Did a bunch of deep web diving and forum research, again, all positive. So the dealer came back and offered me a solid number, but a hair off of what I really wanted. Told them I'd go home and discuss it with the wife and follow-up. Texted him to see if he could sharpen the pencil a bit more, he came up with another $500, so it would net me $12k back in hand. Finished dinner, texted the salesman and said I'd be on my way. Drove over to the dealer and traded the Ram in last night. Bought the thing without even driving it :rofl:

The big driver towards the VW Arteon was the rear legroom. Set the driver seat in a comfortable position, then I hopped in the back. I had so much damn legroom. Cars.com reviews were all great for car seats. After buying it, swapped my sons booster seat bottom in, kid can kick his legs out and still not touch the back of my seat. Put my daughters rear-facing in (Clek Foonf - which is a big ol' bitch, but safe AF), and the passenger seat can be moved to a comfortable position, even for me, without it hitting the car seat back.

The color is called Manganese Grey Metallic, which has some good depth and works well with the body lines.

Drove the thing home, enjoying the comforts of the cooled seat and the back massage feature. I'm going to use that massage feature every fucking time I drive, it's amazing. I'm going to need to sit in this thing for an hour or two and finger-fuck all the gizmos and gadgets, learning what everything does. I'll also need to read up on the different drive modes and custom settings (suspension, steering, trans shifts, etc).

Current Mods/parts: mud flaps, 25% IRX window tint on the sides and back/25% on the windshield/50% on the sunroof, add-on homelink VW mirror (this bitch had everything, but no homelink), APR 93 octane tune, APR ignition coils, and one step colder NGK spark plugs. APR turbo inlet pipe, APR carbon fiber intake pipe, APR pex CAI, APR subframe insert, Rolloface 6 piston 14" front and rear brakes, H&R lowering springs, H&R rear sway bar, Moog rear sway bar links, 5mm spacers in the rear, 20x9 Vossen HF3 wheels with 255/35ZR20 Michelin PS4's, stock wheels with winter tires Vredestein Wintrac Pro, dynamic mirror turn signals, 2021 steering wheel and air bag. OE Roof bars and Inno Shadow 16 roof cargo box.

Here's some shitty pics for the time being...

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turning off the AC in a tacoma improves 0-60 times by 3 seconds to 9 seconds.


HOLY FUCKING SHIT

Taking it to the track, the Tacoma TRD Pro fell in line right where we expected it to. The 4,550-pound truck ran through the quartermile in 17.14 seconds and crossed the finish stripe at 84.7 mph. Acceleration from a stop to 60 mph happened in 9.21 seconds.



It has to be terrifying to merge with traffic.
 

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HOLY FUCKING SHIT

Taking it to the track, the Tacoma TRD Pro fell in line right where we expected it to. The 4,550-pound truck ran through the quartermile in 17.14 seconds and crossed the finish stripe at 84.7 mph. Acceleration from a stop to 60 mph happened in 9.21 seconds.



It has to be terrifying to merge with traffic.

Don’t you fucking dare talk about a Tacoma it has infinite seating positions
 
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Why did you choose the tune vs. JB4 route? I went with the JB4 on my wife’s Q7 and love it, plus the great thing is when we get rid of it down the road I can get something back for the JB4.

So NFG with warranty?
The local dealer is tune friendly. However, Axel's recommended flashing it back to stock, as VW is behind in the game and they can't see that there WAS a tune on it. So, prior to taking it in for warranty, I'll shoot over to Axel's and have them flash back to stock and then take it in.
 
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The local dealer is tune friendly. However, Axel's recommended flashing it back to stock, as VW is behind in the game and they can't see that there WAS a tune on it. So, prior to taking it in for warranty, I'll shoot over to Axel's and have them flash back to stock and then take it in.
From what I remember, starting in 2017 or thereabouts, VW & Audi corpo can see tunes when they plug in a car and it's outside of the dealer's control if VAG voids the warranty, even if flashed back to stock.

VW/Audi Dealer by me used to sell APR tunes and said you would keep the warranty. Friend of mine leased a 2017 A5 from them and had them tune it, then when he had a recall 4-5 months later they said if we plug this in the warranty may be void because of some changes made by VAG. They got in a big pissing match and it never came to a head because his gf totaled it lol. Maybe it's different for VW vs audi though

He was about to have a modded leased german car with no warranty. Talk about a goofy situation
 

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From what I remember, starting in 2017 or thereabouts, VW & Audi corpo can see tunes when they plug in a car and it's outside of the dealer's control if VAG voids the warranty.

VW/Audi Dealer by me used to sell APR tunes and said you would keep the warranty. Friend of mine leased a 2017 A5 from them and had them tune it, then when he had a recall 4-5 months later they said if we plug this in the warranty may be void because of some changes made by VAG. They got in a big pissing match and it never came to a head because his gf totaled it lol

He was about to have a modded leased german car with no warranty. Talk about a goofy situation
Apparently, Audi is much worse about this than VW is.
 
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