APR has been sold to Mangrove Equity

General Discussion
#181

He makes a good point. These companies didn’t invest in APR to shut it down.

#182

And it’s not like APR is a company that can be broken up and sold off.

#183

Apr just posted on their Facebook page taking delivery of their new S3.

#184

IB4IBU - In before it blows up

#185

They’ll blame the OEM turbo :wink:

#186

And then we will ask “how much boost was it running”

And they will respond

“That’s irrelevant”

#187

Maybe they’ll steal an engine and blow that one up too :wink: #blameArin

#188

It’s never a good sign when the car running the 3.0t supercharger that’s so close to being released . . . has a blown engine and hasn’t been driven for a month. Also makes you wonder if APR did use GRD’s car for primary development, why was the kit even released if the engine on that car is blown?

Given the sell-off of APR owned vehicles + customers demanding theirs back, what will Arin drive if Sean’s TT-S sells?

Sales bump for Sean. Great guy.

http://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicledetails.xhtml?zip=36801&endYear=2015&showcaseOwnerId=0&startYear=1981&makeCode1=AUDI&listingType=used&listingTypes=used&searchRadius=25&showcaseListingId=0&mmt=[AUDI[][]]&listingId=380998593&Log=0

#189

Think there’s any interest in a thread where emails from Arin asking customers to troll other companies are posted?

Must be really awkward now that Joel is his coworker…

Screenshot for posterity… Halvie is the APR TSI Stage 3+ guy whose car has been there for a year and a half and isn’t running correctly. He also sent the car in with more HP and left with less…

http://i.imgur.com/MMCzv5Y.png

http://www.golfmk6.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1962404&postcount=159

#190

‘halvie’ edited that post down to nothing

explaint that post to me…I don’t have a clue what it means

#191

It is well known that Arin employs an Army of Trolls which he keeps on hand by offering them beta tunes, free products and other special perks. Think Flying_tomatoes. Halvie posted up the headers of two emails in which Arin asked him to 1) help push people away from golfmk6.com 2) to troll his now-coworker Joel Schurtz. Back then, Joel didn’t work for APR so Arin sought to attack Joel in every way possible

Being a former comrade of Arin’s, I’d like to think that I was perhaps a Major or even Colonel within his Army. Many emails and messages back and forth asking me to post here and there. Arin doesn’t like to get his hands dirty. He’s even pushed his superior, Keith to release dirt on other individuals since Arin is afraid of the repercussions of his own actions.

I imagine Monday morning might be interesting for Arin when he sees Joel.

Dave

#192

The plot thickens…

#193

As the world turns in the bitch…lol. Seriously though amazing stuff. The fact that they keep deleting threads and posts on other forums is shady and telling.

#194

Have I mentioned how much I enjoy reading your posts?

I do quite enjoy the drama behind the desk at Arin’s desk.

#195

Not surprised that VWVortex decided to close the APR / Mangrove thread that their own moderator started. VWVortex relys on APR’s $5000/mo advertising payment too much and was under pressure by Arin to close the thread.

This caught my eye. If you know who FlyingTurtle is, you’ll know that the information is legitimate.

APR dropped SouthBend late in 2013 and claimed that the clutches never made them any money and weren’t very good (segway to something else)

Looks like they just didn’t pay their bills.

http://i.imgur.com/cdBJZsG.png

Interesting how they’ll pay their advertising bills but will opt to skip out on product / service vendors.

Dave

#196

what no way, 5k a month? and thats just to VWvortex? APR is on every audi/vw forum. That just seems like they are pissing away money, makes me want to start my own forum site lol.

#197

That was a bit of a shock to me as well. 5K for one site? …or was that just an exaggeration for impact?

#198

That’s what I’ve been told by people inside/outside APR.

I think it’s money well spent for them as it allows them to spam all the forums with their product releases, events etc. I wonder what their Facebook bill is like.

Dave

#199

Looks like an [ex?]employee is moving new parts under used listings at rock bottom prices…

http://i.imgur.com/reuQFSG.png

http://www.golfmk6.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1949688&postcount=69

Maybe someone should ask for a “used” 3.0t supercharger? :wink:

Dave

#200

hahahahaha they have like 30 great spiderman pics in there now. .

Kind of like the S5 section and the cats.