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I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days

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Re: I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days

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Post by johnchristopher »

cj wrote: post #440
lelanthran wrote: post #437

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> My flatmate does this with kitchen cupboard doors, and, most annoyingly, the microwave. She'll open the microwave to stop it, takes her food out and, just ... leaves it open. Then when I close it later it will start up again with nothing inside. Arrrgh! So? Hit the cancel button when you close it - you have to be right there to close it after all. TBH, I do this too, because I hate putting in some milk to warm for…

I’m learning so much from this thread. The idea of warming milk for cereal has never crossed my mind.

Oh, here's another one: I eat my oats with hot water, not milk ! Kids cereals I still use (cold) milk though.

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Post by cubefox »

easywood wrote: post #438
lynx23 wrote: post #417

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Entitled to special treatment. A modern phenomenon. A good sign that you should move on to a different partner.

Second opinion from someone in a 25 year marriage: do not move to a different partner over a disagreement on onions. You'll be moving a lot.

Probably most people have some amount of annoying quirks.

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Post by Reason077 »

cj wrote: post #440
lelanthran wrote: post #437

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> My flatmate does this with kitchen cupboard doors, and, most annoyingly, the microwave. She'll open the microwave to stop it, takes her food out and, just ... leaves it open. Then when I close it later it will start up again with nothing inside. Arrrgh! So? Hit the cancel button when you close it - you have to be right there to close it after all. TBH, I do this too, because I hate putting in some milk to warm for…

I’m learning so much from this thread. The idea of warming milk for cereal has never crossed my mind.

As a kid I loved hot milk on my Weet-Bix/Weetabix, but it's not something I crave as an adult!

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Post by hoseja »

Reason077 wrote: post #447
hoseja wrote: post #393

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IMO a good thing, lets them ventilate better. Not cancelling the timer is the wrong thing there.

Not sure about that. It's normal to open a microwave periodically to inspect, stir the food etc to ensure it is heating evenly. Automatically cancelling the timer each time you open it would be very annoying.

I meant, leaving the microwave open would be fine if they also cancelled the timer after being done with it.

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Post by dcormier »

leetrout wrote: post #161
HeyLaughingBoy wrote: post #155

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Yes. I had a problem with a leaking transmission once and the shop refused to accept my diagnosis because "in all my years servicing transmissions, I never heard of that failing." Finally, the service manager agreed to check it out with the understanding that if I was wrong, I still had to pay for the time they spent investigating. I was right :-)

This was me with a Suzuki vstrom with a bad solenoid. Mechanic ran 12 volts through it on the bench and refused to accept it wasnt working in the bike. Bought my own solenoid online and surprise the bike started working again.

They were unit testing when they needed to be integration testing.

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Post by dcormier »

jopsen wrote: post #219
nickff wrote: post #62

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The problem with specializing in these issues is that most customers will be dissatisfied when you charge them thousands of dollars to reset a minor module on their car. How many hours of shop time are you willing to pay for with no guarantee of a solution, and very few (if any) parts replaced?

> How many hours of shop time are you willing to pay for with no guarantee of a solution, and very few (if any) parts replaced? Imagine opening a computer software support business where you bring in your old proprietary binary programs that you got from who knows where, and the business is to fix bugs you've found. Maybe some really big enterprises would pay for that sort of thing. But I doubt it would be feasible f…

This feels like something (former?) malware researchers might do. It’s entertaining when they reverse engineer malware and find bugs.

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Post by cubefox »

yanellena wrote: post #433
Reason077 wrote: post #386

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My flatmate does this with kitchen cupboard doors, and, most annoyingly, the microwave. She'll open the microwave to stop it, takes her food out and, just ... leaves it open. Then when I close it later it will start up again with nothing inside. Arrrgh!

We do this to ventilate it so that it doesn't steam up the inside of the microwave. Seems pretty sensible.

Exactly! If there is any moisture left and it can't dry, it could start to mold.

That's actually a problem with my dishwasher, which can't be left slightly open (it always closes shut), and me being a single, so it takes time to get a full machine. If I want to prevent mold I either have to start the dishwasher half empty (which is counterintuitive) or to collect the dirty dishes outside the dishwasher until enough have accumulated to fill it. But then you have all the dirty dishes lying around. Argh!

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Post by ssharp »

brokenmachine wrote: post #353
ssharp wrote: post #130

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I wired in an aftermarket DVD player in an old car and tapped into a fuse that was supposed to not draw power when off. Of course, it did draw power so the DVD player never shut off. It wasn't too much of a draw but I didn't want to end up with a dead battery situation because of it so my solution was to just plug the fuse tap in when the kids were in the car and wanted to watch something. I'm sure there was a more e…

Aftermarket head units should have two power inputs - one for standby, and one that only gets power when "accessory power" is on. Every car I've owned I've been able to wire it up so that works, then it only turns fully on when the car is on. I avoid very new cars like the plague though, so not sure how different they are. It makes me anxious thinking about all the bullshit in new cars - touch screens, coded parts, 4…

This was an rear-seat overhead DVD player, not a console one. Although, I probably would have been better off wiring to the head unit instead. At the time, I still had the factory one in there so it's not quite as expandable and more complicated to add stuff to.

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Post by xeromal »

overthrow wrote: post #3

Well this is timely. I have a parasitic draw on my NC Miata. The first mechanic just replaced the battery. The second told me it's normal for the battery to die if you don't drive it for 3 days (because "cars have computers now"). It seems like mechanics really don't like digging into the electrical part of the car... but these days that encompasses more and more of what can go wrong. Without time to dig into it myse…

I'm sure if the mechanic was paid for it hourly they'd gladly tear your car apart trying to find the drain, but I think most people can't stomach that.

If anyone takes a car to a mechanic and asks for the estimate and the estimate is (100$ an hour until I find the leak and it may take a whole day or two), then most people are gonna gag.

You need to find an expert in your car.

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Post by ambicapter »

Toutouxc wrote: post #389
ambicapter wrote: post #154

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Maybe a lot of people just read the news? It was said by the leader of the World Economic Forum.

Stop lying. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ll_own_nothing_and_be_...

> In 2016, Auken published an essay originally titled "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better",[2] later retitled "Here's how life could change in my city by the year 2030". It described life in an unnamed city in which the narrator does not own a car, a house, any appliances, and any clothes, and instead relied on shared services for all of their daily needs.

From your link. I'll let others decide whether or not that is "lying".

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