NAC..'00 VW Passat 4Motion...$7200 in repairs!!!

[Robert M]

     Sharks patrol these waters ;)

>From: "John Larson" <j.d.larson at verizon.net>
>To: <tyson at up-times.com>, <quattro at audifans.com>
>Subject: Re: NAC..'00 VW Passat 4Motion...$7200 in repairs!!!
>Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 09:29:54 -0700
>
>Hi, Tyson.  I am surprised at your attack on my credentials and knowledge, 
>as my background is pretty well known on this and other lists.  I am a 
>factory trained Audi and Porsche tech, and have been for 32 years.  Before 
>that, I was an enthusiastic amateur for another 14 years.  After nearly 2 
>years of dealer experience and training, I worked at a Porsche specialty 
>shop in Los Angeles that had a huge number of exotic Porsches in its 
>clientele, mostly 4 cam cars like Spyders and 904s.  We did a significant 
>amount of preparation and maintenance work on what are now called "track 
>cars".  I held a smog license for a number of years, have had a number of 
>classes from Bosch, and I've operated my own shop since 1977.  I spend 
>approximately 30% of my time at work dealing with emissions related work on 
>German cars for the smog check station next door.  I know, and am on first 
>name level professional terms, with some of the best known Porsche and Audi 
>"tuners" (a word I don't like) in the country.  I have a customer list that 
>stretches from San Diego to Portland to Atlanta (if you don't count London, 
>UK).  I've helped assemble a concours car that won it's class at the 
>Porsche Parade, and have built a group B SCCA 914/6.  Oh, and I've worn 
>glasses since I was 14 and injured an eye while working on a tractor with 
>my neighbor.  To sum it up, I've lived and worked in the practical 
>automotive world for most of my life, have been around since the very 
>beginning of the smog laws, and have seen the environment of LA go from an 
>air quality cesspool of a million people to a relatively clean air 
>environment with 7 or 8 times the number of inhabitants.  And your 
>professional automotive qualifications are 
>.............................................?  John
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Tyson Varosyan" <tigran at tigran.com>
>To: "'John Larson'" <j.d.larson at verizon.net>; "Quattro at Audifans. Com 
>(E-mail)" <quattro at audifans.com>
>Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 11:35 PM
>Subject: RE: NAC..'00 VW Passat 4Motion...$7200 in repairs!!!
>
>
>>John,
>>
>>My neck is nice and white, but thanks for asking! I do have 3 high
>>performance cars of my own, that hardly have an untouched bolt on them and
>>am a member of a number of car tuner/racing/enthusiast clubs. Prior to 
>>last
>>fall (when I got crazy busy with running my own business), I had at least 
>>4
>>cars in my driveway every weekend belonging to other people in my clubs 
>>that
>>were there to use my help with this and that on their car. Bottom line, 
>>you
>>sound like the type of guy that wears glasses and pushes papers all day in
>>some cubical - can you even point out the catalytic converter in your own
>>car?
>>
>>Before making arrogant statements about other people, perhaps you should 
>>do
>>some research and read independent studies on the subject matter so that 
>>you
>>yourself do not come across as parrot-like moron repeating something that
>>you read on a placed ad in a newspaper about how great cats are. Or you
>>could get some hands-on experience - that works too.
>>
>>Tyson Varosyan
>>Technical Manager, Uptime Technical Solutions LLC.
>>tyson at up-times.com
>>www.up-times.com
>>206-715-TECH (8324)
>>
>>UpTime/OnTime/AnyTime
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: John Larson [mailto:j.d.larson at verizon.net]
>>Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 2:38 PM
>>To: tigran at tigran.com; quattro at audifans.com
>>Subject: Re: NAC..'00 VW Passat 4Motion...$7200 in repairs!!!
>>
>>
>>Tyson wrote...............  "Catalytic converters are a bunch of crap
>>anyway! They do not work! Do what many people I know do on all their cars.
>>Take a hole saw with a long
>>extension, take out your cat, and drill the thing out. Or get a "Test 
>>pipe"
>>if there is one made for your car. Ether way, nuke the thing."
>>
>>............snip..............
>>....
>>
>>Interesting, and intensely expressed,  opinion.  Unsupportable, but
>>interesting.  Lotta people, the kind we call "rednecks", agree with you, 
>>I'm
>>sure.  BTW, Platinum has always been an important part of catalytic
>>converters ..................
>>
>>John
>>
>>
>>
>
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