revmoo posted:

That's pretty standard these days. Our 4Runner has one and most BMWs do as well.

some texas redneck posted:

Toyota even used the hydraulic cooling fans on the Camry at one point. I want to say the 2nd or 3rd generation?

Computer viking posted:

I guess I can be the first to ask: What exactly is that? The pieces of body I can see don't really help me identify it.

Fart Pipe posted:

I took this pic last year



Also the cat was bad at 12k so I replaced it. It was clogged and woudnt go more than like 60mph, then found out like a week later that there was a recall for it and I could have had it replaced for nothing.

DiggityDoink posted:

This is just as much poor ownership decisions as it is a mechanical failure.


Found while washing it today. It's probably actually been broken for a while now and I only noticed because I last hit the brakes going backwards before I parked it, usually it's straight into the garage. Thankfully it wasn't out on the highway that I found out about it.

Iridium posted:

Geirskogul posted:

Ratcheting box wrenches have changed my life

spog posted:

He drove it home whilst still drunk?

quote:

According to Tire Rack, Michelin Defenders have a "mildly asymmetric tread design" which is why they have inside/outside markings. You should get them remounted in the correct orientation ASAP. The dealer should correct this at no charge to you.

IPCRESS posted:

I used to keep mine in my desk drawer or would check it with my coat.

Personally, I liked the 'stealth' faceplates that would turn around and show mirror-finish plastic where the deck should be. You can probably guess how effective that was as far as junkie camouflage went.

14 INCH DICK posted:

From imgur:

SouthsideSaint posted:

So that's what muffler bearings look like.

Slavvy posted:

You're in for a fun time. The control arm bolt you can see isn't the only one. There is another one which bolts into the subframe through the sway bar mount, you can see them on the right in the second picture. If the whole cast assembly that holds the bush has moved, the subframe is bent.

veedubfreak posted:

You keep a low deductible right? Right? I looked into raising my deductible from 250 up to 500 or 1000 and the price change was so small it wasn't worth it. As many times as I've had to have my last 2 cars into the body shop due to other people being idiots, it's a lot easier to write a 250 check and wait for reimbursement than a 1000. Also, helps in the event I manage to do something stupid in the snow one of these days.

1500quidporsche posted:

Thats the industry in general. I don't work in property or auto but if I get a request like that the first thing I do is pull up the client's claim history to see if they've actually claimed something in that bracket.

The reverse of course is them assuming you're going to claim like a motherfucker if you go the other way.

DethMarine21 posted:

That wrench looks like a good candidate for a wire wheeling followed by a chemical like Evapo-Rust or Boeshield Rust Free.

0toShifty posted:

This BMW had the usual lights, and some strange light in the middle. I understand it's to indicate an issue with traction or stability control - but what a non-intuitive icon!

Saga posted:

What's the solution for this? New pump? Mine does seem to go through washer fluid very quick.

0toShifty posted:

Hybrids also have no manifold vacuum and have electric vacuum pumps. It sounds like a cow actually. Especially audible on the Prius C. Pump the pedal more and you make the cow moo some more.

Also the master cylinder on a Toyota hybrid is ridiculously expensive. It's gotta sense and simulate a regular brake pedal when the car is actually regen braking.

This is on a Gen 3 prius. It's got the ABS module built into it. How much? Try $1600-$2000 for an OEM one!

literally a fish posted:

That's most likely the fuel pump priming the system.

kastein posted:

Oh right, I always forget RHD because I have literally never worked on one. Sorry, what I said only applies to LHD and I haven't a clue how the RHD XJs did their serp belt stuff.

Probably depends, but I don't believe I've ever seen asbestos-cloth insulation in a house*, it's usually rubber impregnated cotton over rubber.

* excepting some very specific applications where it was necessary, such as wiring to resistive heater elements in ovens, toasters, etc. Asbestos is actually still legal to use in the US in a handful of niche, special-purpose applications, but the industries involved do their damndest to avoid using it because "company X is still selling asbestos-tainted products for the hell of it!" is really awful publicity.


That's a pretty common place to put the steering angle sensor, but most makes do it more intelligently than that. For instance many Hondas (example: 2012 Accord Coupe) use the 35251-TA0-B11 steering angle sensor + housing. There are a handful of versions of the MFS (multifunction stalk) that have fogs and auto lights as options that plug right in, for any vehicle from the Fit to the Civic to the Accord to the Element (iirc.) Same for the wiper stalk, there's one with intermittent wiper, one without, one with rear wiper, one with rear wiper and washer, etc... for a half dozen different vehicles. And they all have the same wiring harness connector and plug right in, so theoretically you could junkyard modules from a higher spec vehicle and plug them into your base spec and suddenly have all those features, if the harness implements the extra wiring on model. And the electrical stuff isn't all networked and coded to the vehicle, for example the steering angle sensor is a 5 pin connector, takes 5V and ground and gives you open-collector outputs for the index pulse (every rotation of the wheel there's a pulse when the wheel is upright) and the A/B quadrature encoder pulses.

All a little fuzzy to me now, since it's been months since I worked on it, but I reverse engineered that all for a project at work. It's a very simple intuitive system and I intend to use them in my own projects as well if possible.

that guy posted:

you run a mixture of oxygen and fluorine through a 700-degree-heating block. “Oh, no you don’t,” is the common reaction of most chemists to that proposal, “. . .not unless I’m at least a mile away, two miles if I’m downwind.”

Uthor posted:

Just get a car with a dog-leg gearbox and all your problems will be solved.