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:laugh: :laugh: I had read a blog post of a similar story, but the end of this... hilarious. |
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Got a Toyota Mirai. Nearing official hipster status. I just need to shave a part in my hair, grow a beard, and wear horizontally lined tank tops.
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Originally Posted by kenzo42
(Post 1362469)
Got a Toyota Mirai. Nearing official hipster status. I just need to shave a part in my hair, grow a beard, and wear horizontally lined tank tops.
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The Toyota Mirai is a hipster car? I thought it was just a fugly new alternative fuel vehicle.
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Originally Posted by kenzo42
(Post 1362469)
Got a Toyota Mirai.
Originally Posted by kenzo42
(Post 1362469)
Nearing official hipster status.
I'm thinking more Yuppie than Hipster. |
Tip of the day: Make sure you plug ALL balance shaft oil passages when you delete the shafts.
Spent 2 nights trying to figure out why the rebuilt engine in my saab has really low oil pressure. I blocked the outer passages but forgot about the inner ones. :facepalm: |
Originally Posted by kenzo42
(Post 1362469)
Got a Toyota Mirai. Nearing official hipster status. I just need to shave a part in my hair, grow a beard, and wear horizontally lined tank tops.
on a sidenote, they sound real weird. |
Originally Posted by MartinezA92
(Post 1363180)
3 years of free gas
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We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves. Each of us should please others for their good, to build them up.
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Originally Posted by kenzo42
(Post 1362469)
Got a Toyota Mirai.
WUT |
With more and more cars getting built in Navigation units, I wish equipped cars would have a speedometer correction device built in.
For example, as you drive at a steady speed the ECU would compare indicated speed against GPS speed and create a correction factor table. The reason I thought of this was because with my next set of tires on the Fiesta ST I may consider going with a 215 wide Direzza ZII star spec. This will result in a .3" difference which works out to be 879 revolutions per mile vs stock 872 per mile. It's not a significant difference but in situations where we might want to run a larger or smaller overall diameter tire it could create a significant disparity at speed. It would be REALLY cool if the ECU could compensate for tire size, even if it's just compensating for tire wear over time. Just thinking out loud and not sure who to share it with. |
It's done on purpose to mitigate lawsuits. "But officer, my car said I was going 60". My Yamaha's speedo is 7% too high, but the odometer is spot on. GPS calculated speed is also sorta.. meh. You'd need a good flat ground and steady RPM / throttle to sample for your correction factor. Standing still a ublox GPS will occasionally report 3-4 meters per second, usually .3 - .6 once a solid lock is established.
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LOL - your Yamaha reads 7% fast to get you to slow down.
Modern cars are required to be within like 2% or 3% I believe...to mitigate lawsuits...from the NHTSA. I also believe it would be painless to integrate an auto-correcting speedo based on averaged GPS readings. |
BMW / MINI speedo correction can be changed through the OBDII port with some funny german software. It's pretty trivial.
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Is there a super secret source of ATE SuperBlue out there somewhere that I'm unaware of, or should I just buy a can of TYP200 from Andrew and call it a day? I really need to do a flush before this weekend.
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Originally Posted by EO2K
(Post 1363403)
Is there a super secret source of ATE SuperBlue out there somewhere that I'm unaware of, or should I just buy a can of TYP200 from Andrew and call it a day? I really need to do a flush before this weekend.
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Suoerblue is no more.
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Originally Posted by aidandj
(Post 1363405)
Suoerblue is no more.
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For a really stupid reason too. Something about the USDOT saying people might get confused and put wind shield wiper fluid in there because it's blue too.
they stopped making it a few years ago. |
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