Man their options are out there… for most normal office type jobs I would shoot for the HP17 i5 request a ram upgrade to 16GB and the HP docking station and then you should be golden for work I mean seriously 8gb of ram for Windows 10/11 and probably o365, Chrome, probably symantec, or Trellix ESS, probably some form of LCE like Aria or Tanium. yeesh 8gb of ram would be a nightmare…
Take apart and some IPA on all the fans and the radiator wipe down inside and outside of case let dry put back together toss the keyboard and get a new one…
I dunno about the linc but it sounds like Throttle got stuck full open.
Sounds to me someone accidentally pumped E85, that has a good chance for fouling all your plugs and can muck up your fuel system.
Reman 3.0 TDI engine for the touareg is between 3-8k depending on the parts distributor and if it’s used or remanufactured and between 19-24 billable hours depending on the shop. plus additional costs for ECU programming accessory installation and consumables Dealer is always going to be your highest cost solution to problems, but there is usually a better warranty on work done and no voiding the vehicles warranty if it is still in effect, as your VW is 12 years old don’t have to worry about that I would just find a third party VW specialist in you area and you can probably get it knocked down by about a third. New Remanufactured Engine is still going to be expensive but that’s what happens when you buy a german car.
well as a para they shouldn’t be storing much on the laptop but some personal crap everything else should be on an access controlled shared drive or onedrive and not locally stored. so storage isn’t that big of a concern but ram on these is horrible the only real option that I see is the alienware but with all the alienware bloat it’s going to suck as much as the 8gb i5’s… Man this company tho is making my eye twitch and makin my IA side scream in geek…