i’m so sorry it’s so hard to hear it’s VERY quiet in video but try with headphones. listen to when i shift and apply throttle, it’s like a weird ticking/rattle noise when im cruising.
i have a super chatty clutch from ECS so maybe it could be that? or could it be wastegate?
2013 gti 6 sp, timing done at 97k, pcv replaced as well. sitting at around 130k now.
I work in lawn care, so I’m in a truck basically all day. One early morning my stomach started doing backflips. Like genuine bubble guts. The kind where you’re sweating and praying you make it in time.
I refuse to use gas station bathrooms unless it’s an emergency because they’re disgusting, so I pulled into a grocery store to handle business.
The bathroom only had 2 stalls one regular stall and one larger handicap stall plus a urinal. The regular stall was already occupied, so I took the handicap stall of course.
I’m in there fighting for my life for a while when another guy walks in. The dude in the regular stall finishes up and leaves, but the other guy who walked in never actually uses the bathroom. No stall sound, no urinal, nothing. Just silence.
A few more minutes pass and another guy walks in and uses the urinal. After he finishes, all I hear is “You alright boss?” And another voice says: “Yeah… just waiting for the handicap stall.”
The instant realization hit me like a truck.
Bro I physically facepalmed in the stall and prayed it wasn’t what I thought it was. I slowly looked down under the divider expecting to maybe see shoes…
Nope. Fucking wheels.
At that point my soul left my body. I hurried up even though I definitely was NOT finished, walked out, and it’s this super buff dude in a wheelchair covered in tattoos just sitting there looking super pissed off.
I walked past him and said, “Man I’m so sorry about that.”
Bro. He didn’t even look at me.
I’ve genuinely never felt worse taking a shit in my entire life.
TL;DR: I had catastrophic bubble guts before work and took over the handicap stall in a grocery store bathroom for like 10 minutes, only to realize afterward that a guy in a wheelchair had been patiently waiting the entire time while I fought for my life.