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by **Bucky** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 08:34:51

The Dude wrote:Sun's up, lights down!

That's it!!

by **BigEd76** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 15:57:28

I've set the mirrors like that since I first started driving and assumed other people did the same. HOW ABOUT THAT

by **ReadingPhilly** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 13:29:50

has anyone ever used we buy any car or carmax? tried to sell my truck privately for a few months but nothing has come of it. would like to get rid of it sooner than later.

by **swishnicholson** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 13:45:06

The Dude wrote:
phatj wrote:I now adjust my mirrors that way because of you, Bucky

Same

ditto, ditto

by **swishnicholson** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 13:47:07

SO I GUESS YOU'RE FEELING YOU WERE A LITTLE HASTY WITH THAT "EVERYONE ADJUSTS THEIR SIDE VIEW MIRRORS INCORRECTLY" BLANKET STATEMENT, HUH BUCKY!!!!????

by **swishnicholson** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 13:51:37

Bucky wrote:
The Dude wrote:Sun's up, lights down!

That's it!!

Well, it's "Sun's Up, Lights Out" and The Marty Show is the poster. Glad to see he's still posting on PhilliesPhans since, if I remember correctly, he had a cancer scare.

by **ReadingPhilly** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 14:47:02

ReadingPhilly wrote:has anyone ever used we buy any car or carmax? tried to sell my truck privately for a few months but nothing has come of it. would like to get rid of it sooner than later.

by **TomatoPie** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 08:49:18

Your "green" electric car? It's coal-powered.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2 ... /23641729/

by **Bucky** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 08:56:26

by **phatj** » Thu Feb 19, 2015 15:07:41

The fact that most electricity is actually generated from fossil fuels is hardly news. But the article asserts that while electric cars result in slightly less net CO2 emissions, pollution from coal power plants is actually far worse than from gasoline-powered cars.

Instead of focusing on electric cars, we should focus on making coal-fired power cleaner.

How about both? Continue development of electric cars to cut their consumption while also developing cleaner fossil-fuel electricity generation techniques?

The article focuses entirely on the environmental impact of electrics, while completely ignoring one very big incentive to drive one: they're dirt-cheap to operate. Depending on your mileage, you might easily save money over the life of a car with electric, despite generally higher purchase prices.

by **Rev_Beezer** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 04:51:35

I thought their last album was pretty much overlooked and a decent return to form. Never the same without Ben Orr, though. I wish I would have tried harder to see them on tour, because from what I heard Ocasek really was not a fan and probably won't do something like that again.

by **Bucky** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 08:57:36

way to shake it up, beez. I guess that's just what I needed.

by **TenuredVulture** » Fri Feb 20, 2015 16:55:47

As far as electricity, we're dumbshits for building new coal fired plants, and we should really be talking about phasing out coal altogether. But I don't give a shit about fracking--I say frack away! And I really think there's got to be a way to make nuclear energy cheaper and while I understand that I'm Monday morning QBing here a bit, major nuclear accidents seem to be a result of dumb things like leaving diesel back up generators in places that could flood, a mistake that I would guess would be caught by anything remotely resembling not 6 sigma but 2 sigma quality control would have caught that.

by **Bucky** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 15:12:27

so my car A/C died last Wednesday, at 4:30AM in the middle of a tsunami. The cooling isn't the important part- it's the dehumidification. Checked all the electrical components, tried those home charging things. Jiffy Lube put it on the machine and sez it's not holding pressure- there's a leak (although the gauge on the home charging thing said it was good). The compressor clutch just never engages. Explained all this to my mechanic today- he said "uh-oh, you're in trouble". Can't take it until next Thursday, though.

S'OK- the wife has a company car, so her '06 Accord is sitting in the driveway and hasn't been moved for months. Figured I'd just use that for now. Go out, had to jumpstart it...and the A/C doesn't work.

Same exact symptom, too- the compressor clutch doesn't engage...

by **phatj** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 15:18:05

Could be stinkbugs

by **WheelsFellOff** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 15:54:01

Have you tried plugging it in?

by **phatj** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 15:55:23

by **Bucky** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 15:58:46

by **Phan In Phlorida** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 20:42:42

Bucky wrote:so my car A/C died last Wednesday, at 4:30AM in the middle of a tsunami. The cooling isn't the important part- it's the dehumidification. Checked all the electrical components,

You checked at the compressor's wire connector with a voltmeter to see if it's getting power and ground? If no power/ground, check the relay and fuse. (Fuses are cheap, relays not so much, fuses and relays you've pocketed at the boneyard are free

)

Bucky wrote:tried those home charging things. Jiffy Lube put it on the machine and sez it's not holding pressure- there's a leak (although the gauge on the home charging thing said it was good). The compressor clutch just never engages. Explained all this to my mechanic today- he said "uh-oh, you're in trouble". Can't take it until next Thursday, though.

It never will engage if there's a leak that left you sans refrigerant, so your mechanic is right in that you may have enough trouble for a blues song.

See if there's anything of interest here

by **Bucky** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 00:54:35

the compressor is buried, so I didn't pull the connector. I did short out the relay socket to make sure that I was sending juice to the wire. Haven't confirmed that it actually got to the compressor though.

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