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Thank you sir. Dropped off the BW yesterday at the detailers for the week, so drove my RS6 today. And the RS6 definitely felt “lesser” than it did before I racked up some miles on the BW. That Tremec is a pure joy. And I am really shocked at how loaded up with technology the BW is...

Awesome, thanks for putting my mind at ease.

After putting about 100 miles on my 2025 5BW, is a tiny bit of idle roughness normal? I notice it with my hand on the shifter at idle, can even see my hand shake a tiny amount. It’s not perceptible on the tach. No check engine, no misfiring under any load. It’s almost like a mild performance...

Believe or not, I started my career as an auto mechanic. Outside of warranty, I still turn my own wrenches, now in my dream garage.

Depends. Are you a butler mechanic?

Hah, it gets better: my wife has her own separate garage. I don’t have to share.

My time in the goat rodeo has thankfully ended. She’s finally home. When I arrived at the dealer, I saw that I made an error ordering though, lol. I didn’t realize the “top tier” seats were both aniline leather *and* carbon backed. I thought the $8k cost was just the leather upcharge, and...

I bet the tariff applies to the wholesale cost of the vehicle, not the retail selling price. And I bet Porsche Germany finds a way to legally tariff engineer so that the wholesale cost is even lower than it is now. Might be as low as 10% of the total retail price of a vehicle, which probably...

You can still get CCB as a standalone option. And what is the tax on April 3 you’re referring to in your other post? Tariffs?

No, CF2 was. My build was in mid Jan, delivery order was flagged with the oil pan issue for dealer to PDI (and I reminded them regardless after reading the horror stories here). I was able to check out a couple 4BW in Drift, ironically one at Caddy Delaware, before pulling the trigger for my 5...

Could be. I definitely had to hit up a lot of dealers. I had no history with this one. I even had to pass on three allocations they got because either color or CF2 was constrained. My patience paid off I guess: I pick it up Saturday and knock on wood there isn’t some glaring issue when I go...

I’ll say again, I paid MSRP for my 25. Spec’d it myself. Drift (25 color) CF2 CCB PDR Etc I decided the $15k immediate depreciation by paying Cadillac of Delaware an ADM wasn’t reasonable in this market, and I found a couple dealers local to me that agreed. I did have to wait a couple months...

I hit about a dozen local caddy dealers and scored a South Jersey allocation in December for a CF2 in Drift Metallic, 6 speed. My build, not someone else’s. At MSRP. Arrives next week. So unicorns do exist in the goat rodeo.

FYI last time I checked, they were still banging out buyers for $10k over MSRP for CF1 and $15k over for CF2 5BWs…

Unless your order is attached to a dealer allocation, your order most likely won’t be picked up by GM. It will just sit there in the system. And unless *all* the options you want are available when an allocation pops up, you won’t be able to take advantage of that allocation. You can’t take...

Just got word that my 5BW is en route to the dealer, via rail. So much for the late deliveries getting enclosed transport.

I hear ya, but this isn’t about the plug design (which has been used on this engine successfully for years now), this is about an assembly error, Same thing could have happened with a threaded plug, the assembler could have not fully threaded it in with the same consequences. Human error...

However, I’ll say it again here: my opinion is that the majority of the handling improvements are due to the Cup 2R tires, and if you’re not going to be using them I’m not sure there is much value to paying the $9k premium on this package (over CCBs)…

Look at it this way: this was a press fit from the get go. The supplier slipped up on QC and GM allowed the defective part to be installed. Now that it is caught, all that has to happen is the original step: press the plug into the hole. It’s not like the plug got pushed out, it was never...

And here I am 14 months later and still haven't received delivery of my 2025 5BW! Does that make me an official member of the Goat Rodeo?