superhawk996

His is a good compromise between the different Smart models in the US. Our electric is the best driving experience, but with the limited range. And if you're actually interested in learning about them you can start a thread, don't want it to go viral and ruin this fun bird virus talk.

Are consumers able to get it from handling the raw meat, or is it currently limited to farmers getting it by exposure to or handling of the animals that are infected? Can it transfer from handling or eating eggs?

It would be thinner if they got rid of the useless non-conductive part.

I've been heavily debating selling mine. If a low mile highly farkled '97 is of interest, let me know.

Noted. I'll stop leaving my wallet, keys, computer laying around when visiting.

My favorite ones are whatever my friend sends me for free. Way back I found some that I loved, but I don't remember the brand. Most of the other mechanics in the shop talked shit about me being a little bitch. My guys started wearing them right away, then it spread to the other side of the shop. Within a month or two there were more blue hands than bare.

Let her have whatever installed and move on. If it becomes irritating just tarp it off.

Shirley there must be some way to get electrons to a light bulb.

I wondered about that also. Is he only running the headlights while trailering because he's more worried about being seen from the front, or because he wants the taillights on to make the trailer more visible. DRL won't help for the latter, but the multitude of straps, especially those flapping in the wind, should take care of trailer visibility.

Our is only a little green because we live in CA where most of our electricity comes from dirty generation. Once I get my solar going, then it'll be green.

Our EV is quite rare and it's half green which is one of the low depreciation colors, therefore it should be worth way more than a Tesla.

I'm pretty sure it's at least partially wired for them from the factory for countries that require them. I don't remember how much is there or what exactly is needed to make them work. With some vehicles it's super easy.

If it's a good vehicle, discontinued models hold value better than those still in production. If the replacement model sucks it'll boost the old one's value. With a basic search I found several under $20k, but they all had over 100k miles.

They probably have to be solid, or close to it, and possibly of a decent material to hold up. I don't know how much that costs to make, but probably not very cheap. And "costs to make" is filament, printer wear, electricity, and labor. The labor side is fairly low, 'till the machine needs work. And I could be totally off, Carlos will know better.

Kinda like my first milling machine projects, to make stuff for the mill. Also got to use the band saw and metal brake/sheer. Now that I've added a lathe I should be able to stay busy making stuff for themselves and each other 🤣

I got nothin, but Ashely might. And I'd forgotten how much I like arroz con huevo so 'yall are welcome to try 'till you get it right while we're there.

As horrifying as that sounds, if we had them I'd use a Dorito as an ice cream spoon and give it a try.

Use tie downs to minimize the gap and a tarp to keep the rain out of it.

She needs a new mechanic. A tank of it can't hurt it. The octane improvers are likely to leave more deposits, but premium gas often has better detergency so who knows where that'll settle out. Some premium gas also has lubricants that help reduce upper cylinder wear. Depending on the year and engine, it might advance the timing and take advantage of the octane, or maybe not.

Di makes more particulate because of incomplete combustion, which seems bass akwards since DI is supposed to be cleaner. But with emissions almost everything that lowers one gas emission increases another. And DI isn't just for a 'turbo hit', lots on NA engines use DI.

That's what many people think is driving this stuff, I think it's not that nefarious. We all know that the gubment will do whatever stupid thing they feel pressured to can monetize and that they'll put whatever quota hire in charge of it to make sure that it's retarded. On the flipside, "unachievable" standards have been repeatedly met and surpassed. There have been many instances of manufacturers achieving things before they were mandated, and in some cases it stopped a mandate. I look forward to an emissions compliance regulation for EVs so that supposedly clean states like CA stop using dirty generation.

That might be exaggerated, but maybe not. Someone's gotta pay for extra stuff plus the 450k mile warrantee on that stuff since everyone knows that there's a good chance of it failing while in warrantee.

GPF is going to capture all the particulate matter that now exists because of direct injection. Modern port injected engines emit less particulate than modern diesels, DI engines emit about 3x what the diesels do. DI is terrible in so many ways, but it helps in other ways. Kinda like EGR on diesels, it decreases NOX while increasing particulate emissions and much more. AFAIK cats don't create particulate matter, they just alter the gasses into non-harmful ones.

Yes.

This is a combination rant and PSA, if you're looking to buy a new vehicle, especially diesel, in the near future you might want to hurry. There's a new mandate to significantly lower NOX and particulate matter from diesels for the 2027 model year. The changes will likely increase fuel and DEF consumption while lowering performance and reliability. The mandate also comes with a significant increase in the emissions warranty which is going to raise the price of the vehicle even more than the emissions equipment alone will. Being that they already produce less particulates than direct injected gassers I started to wonder how long it would be before they went after those. While I don't know of a proposed mandate, Ford has jumped ahead and the 2025 Maveric has a GPF (gasoline particulate filter). They've announced that it comes with a decrease in power (12% I think) and probably a hit in fuel economy as well, along with an increase in price. The addition of a GPF is likely to force changes with gasoline and oil formulations, not much we can do to escape that.