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- Sat Feb 17, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
- Replies: 55905
- Views: 3276683
Re: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
Sounds like a solution looking for a problem to me. I, too, have an appreciation for robust independent control mechanisms (like a clutch that can mechanically decouple the engine regardless of what the computer is doing). I can't imagine an electronic fuse would be more reliable than a traditional ...
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 11:26 am
- Forum: Manuals in the News
- Topic: Driving a stick isn't dead
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9015
Re: Driving a stick isn't dead
Much as it was common for race cars to use dogleg firsts when it was believed shifts between second and third would be more frequent and more critical than shifts between first and second, it probably makes sense to have towing/hauling transmissions place the dogleg 1-2 on the unladen shift pattern,...
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:01 pm
- Forum: Manuals in the News
- Topic: Driving a stick isn't dead
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9015
Re: Driving a stick isn't dead
He doesn't seem to understand what he's reporting on. He says it's not an old-school granny gear but that's exactly what it is. It doesn't matter if it's labeled 1, L, or C. It's been a fixture in 3/4-ton and up trucks for decades. It's not a feature commonly included on vehicles without towing, hau...
- Sun May 14, 2023 3:08 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: STICKIN' IT TO "THE MAN" SINCE 1941
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1111
Re: STICKIN' IT TO "THE MAN" SINCE 1941
Our latest acquisition had a bad contact and 5% limo tint over the 20% in the glass making everything behind the B pillars uncomfortably close to opaque. After soldering the contact back on and peeling off the film, my solution to function testing "out of season" was to turn the defroster ...
- Sun Apr 02, 2023 10:02 am
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
- Replies: 55905
- Views: 3276683
Re: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
That's more true than it should be because of the short-term mentality encouraged in business schools and boardrooms. I firmly believe too many of the wrong pennies are being pinched and the companies themselves would be money ahead spending more in development and manufacturing to save on the back ...
- Sat Feb 11, 2023 10:34 pm
- Forum: Tranny Talk
- Topic: Buying guide actually updated to 2021
- Replies: 56
- Views: 15338
Re: Buying guide actually updated to 2021
The advertised EyeSight features that would be potentially relevant are adaptive cruise and automatic emergency braking. Other manufacturers put both those features on Amish vehicles and one would hope there's not a lot of overlap between those who would spec a third pedal and those who would be pro...
- Fri Feb 10, 2023 11:07 am
- Forum: Tranny Talk
- Topic: Buying guide actually updated to 2021
- Replies: 56
- Views: 15338
Re: Buying guide actually updated to 2021
Funny, other manufacturers manage to integrate those features with a proper transmission...
- Sat Dec 03, 2022 2:03 pm
- Forum: Tranny Talk
- Topic: Downhill in gear
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1426
Re: Downhill in gear
With respect to the first question, it depends. Many newer cars can completely shut off the injectors in a mode commonly called DFCO (Deceleration Fuel Cut-Off), but older injected vehicles and especially carbureted ones will probably keep some small amount of fuel flowing. That amount of fuel is un...
- Fri Dec 02, 2022 1:13 am
- Forum: Tranny Talk
- Topic: Winter....potholes....and automatics. Ugh!
- Replies: 62
- Views: 14313
Re: Winter....potholes....and automatics. Ugh!
The only clutch failures I have experienced have been with the hydraulics. In my experience, they haven't been total failures. Using the clutch normally still produced enough disengagement to help. Rev matching had to be much better than was normally necessary, but still not nearly as exact as is re...
- Thu Nov 17, 2022 12:01 am
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Another Day, Another Idiot Driver (Misc Thread for Stories)
- Replies: 3506
- Views: 323324
Re: Another Day, Another Idiot Driver (Misc Thread for Stories)
The studies are a little "loaded" looking only at the following vehicle. Every time I've had AEB activate it's INCREASED my chances of a rear-end crash by abruptly braking for a right-turning vehicle for which I've already made adjustments so it will be out of the travel lane before I get ...
- Thu Aug 25, 2022 5:10 pm
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
- Replies: 55905
- Views: 3276683
Re: Misc Thread VI: Return of the Threadi
It's a four-door "classic" Beetle with a Continental kit and a generic '30s nose.
- Tue Aug 02, 2022 5:25 pm
- Forum: Tranny Talk
- Topic: Standard transmission EPA ratings
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3294
Re: Standard transmission EPA ratings
The scangauge isn't necessarily any more accurate than the speedometer. The only potential inaccuracy it takes out of the system is the input and display elements of the speedometer (whatever form those take in any given vehicle), and that inaccuracy is as likely to be in the opposite direction of t...
- Wed Jul 06, 2022 9:48 pm
- Forum: Tranny Talk
- Topic: Standard transmission EPA ratings
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3294
Re: Standard transmission EPA ratings
Only one of my manuals is EPA-rated and stock. Looking at that one and comparing to the revised numbers, I have multiple tanks at approximately 115% of the highway rating and an overall average of almost the highway rating, about 115% of combined.
- Wed Jun 15, 2022 9:49 am
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: If ..........., You Just Might Be Drivin' an Electric
- Replies: 115
- Views: 26862
Re: If ..........., You Just Might Be Drivin' an Electric
You say that like activists getting wrapped around the axle on the negative aspects of the status quo and demanding changes that turn out to be net harmful is something new. As but one example, the plastic bags now viewed as a scourge on the world by environmentalists were forced into near-universal...
- Thu May 26, 2022 12:06 am
- Forum: Rants and Raves
- Topic: If ..........., You Just Might Be Drivin' an Electric
- Replies: 115
- Views: 26862
Re: If ..........., You Just Might Be Drivin' an Electric
Ridiculous. Nothing innovative about that, and no expensive time in the lab to discover the operating principle. Obvious to a four-year-old. That should be laughed out of the patent office.