PoorInCT

PoorInCT t1_iy0q8i6 wrote

Ron's Toy Shop in Manchester put in trailer wiring on my car. They were recommended by Toyota. It works fine after 3 years and the price was the same as the trailer place.

Concord Best Buy put in a Garmin dash cam with a special parking adapter, all of which I purchased on Amazon for a fixed price. The shop was really clean and the install went great. It is still working fine after 2 years. They had to run wiring right by a pillar airbag.

I'm going back to the Best Buy to have a second integrated subwoofer put in. The real Advantage is that the price is fixed and there are no surprises in terms of time and materials.

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PoorInCT t1_iy0a6xa wrote

Yah that sounds legit.

Certain tests cant run if the tank is less than 15% full or more than 85% full.

My chevy service manuals gave all sorts of technical info as to minimum trip time, temp of coolant, how many warm ups, how many accelerations from 0 to 25, 45, 55 and corresponding decelerations, time between 45-55, while the fluid was between certain temps, and some other things that would have to happen to let the ecu give you a pass/fail as opposed to not ready.

Best bet it get the warm, don't run near full or empty, and do alot of reasonable accelerations and decelerations on local, state, and on/off ramps on Interstate.

Advance auto can read your obd for free or you can get a reader on Amazon.

Slow evap can be as simple as a gas cap replacement or as bad as thousand dollars where they just replace everything.

Back in the day people would pinch off the tubing to a vacuum pump that was dedicated to doing the test..thats a felony now. In at least the last decade the computer is monitoring pressure in the fuel tank while the engine is running to figure out if any thing is leaking.

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PoorInCT t1_iwfl3q3 wrote

I got my fourth shot just because I knew the side effects would get me two days off work. But also because people to the left of me and to the right of me were dropping from covid, and I guess the new policy is to not tell anyone that you've been in the same room with such a person.

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PoorInCT t1_ivzkqdy wrote

You need to test reading comprehension. But if you are using now let me help you through this.

Accident rates soared 7 percent, death 2.3% after medical use was approved. Retail sales did not significantly increase the rates after the soar.

Theres nothing wrong with use, but use+driving needs enforcement to keep people safe. Enforcement is ineffective at the moment.

Go ahead, enjoy. but stay the fuck off the road.

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PoorInCT t1_ivw3h7l wrote

It should be delayed until there is a reliable way to detect a driver who is high. Or maybe users should get an endorsement on their license.

You can't give somebody harsh penalties unless you can tell that they are DWI. And these harsh penalties are the only things that keep people from driving in an impaired state and killing/maming/disabling others.

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PoorInCT t1_iuzw1qf wrote

Grappone are absolute Crooks. The service manager insisted that I needed new brakes and pads all around. I didn't believe him. This was during covid and my car was out of inspection. He started to act like a cop. On my next oil Change I brought my Corolla to IRA. 15,000 miles later they stated I needed new pads and rotors when the thickness went into the red.

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PoorInCT t1_iuunpsr wrote

The chains are brutal. I've seen a district manager rip the a****** out of a store manager for not making his target .

So when the store manager or the service writer writes up all the b******* work, they're not even thinking about being honest or dishonest. They are thinking about keeping their jobs

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PoorInCT t1_iusiezg wrote

In general meetup groups provide a great avenue to make friends.

In specific winter hiking with experienced individuals will form bonds quickly because of the many, many things that make circumstances challenging and difficult. Helping each other out in small but significant ways is strong currency.

I would not recommend gathering friends and going for anything more than a walk up and down Lincoln Woods though. Consider an AMC course.

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PoorInCT t1_itex4jc wrote

People don't look at signs they watch the screen. That's the point of an in vehicle navigation system, as well as routing you around traffic, tell you how much over the speed limit you're going, where the cops are, whether there's animals on the road, potholes and objects on the road. You've heard of these things?

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PoorInCT t1_it81saf wrote

The big issue is having to know which lane to be in when you enter the circle. Its not something GPS, Maps, or Waze, or alot of Vehicle maps deal with (yet)

If you don't use the circle as a local, you are a risk.

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