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I know on newer cars, what is often described as 'hyperflash' is an artifact of having insufficient resistance in the circuit, ie: a burned out bulb, a retrofitted LED bulb, etc. Basically they'll use a sense resistor in-line with the power circuit, and if the voltage is insufficient on the...

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Yeah I think those are coil on strut. So you'd need to either buy quick struts, or transfer the coil spring from your old strut to the new strut.

Originally Posted by wag123 Originally Posted by pitzel I'm closing in on 90,000 hours on some 2TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000's. They're in a 4-drive RAID-10, so I don't see why I shouldn't just "run to fail". I have also had excellent luck with HGST drives. I have not had one fail on me yet...

Originally Posted by OVERKILL The big delay for Darlington was a post-Chernobyl pause put on the industry which also unfortunately stopped the B site from being built immediately after. It was supposed to be an 8-unit site like Pickering and Bruce. Ontario's electricity demand didn't warrant...

Do those have 'hardware', ie: stainless steel plates, that affix to the caliper mounting bracket? The pads should also slide relatively smoothly within such brackets. Often what happens is that rust forms underneath those stainless steel plates, and essentially makes it difficult for the pads to...

Amazing. Still remember visiting DNGS in May, 1992, and being told that the multi-billion dollar plant, paying 8-10% (or higher) interest at the time, was not running because of cracks in turbines. Glad to hear they finally were able to turn that around. Have they developed any 'permanent'...

Originally Posted by zzyzzx Isn't public transportation more prevalent in Canada? Only in the biggest cities. Minimally existent everywhere else. The country just hasn't been as economically prosperous as our neighbours to the south. So, for example, there are fewer collector cars, fewer cars...

12 months? I haven't changed oil in 12 years on my car. Lol I'm convinced that inadequate oil quantity is what most of the sludge-buckets end up suffering.

I'm closing in on 90,000 hours on some 2TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000's. They're in a 4-drive RAID-10, so I don't see why I shouldn't just "run to fail".

Originally Posted by ZeeOSix If I leave the laptop plugged into the wall most of the time while using it, what would be a good constant level of charge to maintain on the battery? The setting "Primarily AC Use" is basically built for that scenario. It doesn't charge the battery to 100%, and...

Some people especially those who work with critical infrastructure, are going to have vehicles that require some form of care. Yes, oil changes can be extended in most cases, but not indefinitely. And there are safety related things, or even literally "no-go" items like flat tyres, that will...

The USA (along with a few other insignificant small countries) is an outlier in terms of vehicles per capita: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_per_capita There is plenty of room for vehicles per capita to fall to even the levels of Canada (for example). And hard...

I suspect the future is going to be a lot more taking care of vehicles so people get 20-25 years out of them instead of 15 years tops in most cases these days. OEMs, that have largely given the middle finger to doing engineering support of in-service products, may actually start doing so as a...

After similar highs in terms of P/E ratio, amounts of leverage/credit in the economy, etc., in 1929, the Dow went on to drop from about 380 down to about 41. Cash (actual cash, not bank deposits), US Treasuries, gold, and gold miners were the big winners for the next decade.

Originally Posted by CKN You are not going to have people borrow money in a declared pandemic regardless of the interest rates. Don't see how this was a great move-honestly. A scary number of loans reset their interest rates daily. So its not about new borrowers, its about existing borrowers.

I suspect there's a hefty insurance/lawyers reserve embedded into the cost of those lower-profile tyres for high performance cars (that have unfortunately drifted into some mainstream vehicles such as the Accord). They really don't contain any extra materials, but they are more likely to fail...

No, risk premiums are exploding.

No Ruthenium options yet?

Originally Posted by buck91 Originally Posted by Cujet Many laptops now have a selection to limit battery charge to about 80%, with the goal of extending battery life. That would be an amazing option. I don't see anything like that in the windows settings, maybe its a bios thing? Dell...