Not at all, why would you think that?

The new battery packs don’t cost GM a penny since LG is paying for them. And the 2017-2019 Bolts with the new packs get the increased range of the new 2020 and 2021 cars, along with a brand new 8 year/100,000 mile battery warranty. And since new cars are still in short supply,…

Master tech and former independent shop owner here: when you see service personnel visibly struggling on your car with a task this simple - STOP THEM, get your car off the lift *before they break something* and take it somewhere else. Sometimes you don’t have a choice (like if your car died and was towed in) but if…

GM B/D body (Caprice, Impala, Roadmaster, Fleetwood, Olds Custom Cruiser) - 77-96 all used a one piece front brake rotor/hub casting.

Get real. Half the country is experiencing blistering heatwaves in the summer, and not just while on vacation. You use A/C too.

Where I go, there are no RV parks and thus no hookups. Also, the small engine ban is for emissions control.

That system is great for keeping the typical one or two 12V DC batteries you’d find in a camper trailer topped up, but it will be achingly slow if you’re trying to meaningfully charge the huge battery pack required to run a typical 15000 BTU RV roof air unit, which needs a minimum of 3500W to start and 1,500W to run.…

I don’t see this provision making it into law for several reasons:

Some do, many don’t. And my small 23' trailer self contained trailer needs a generator for the roof A/C, which is pretty vital these days for summer vacations - or just surviving - out west, where a town in Canada hit 116, 118 and then 121 degrees before burning to the ground earlier this year, Portland Oregon hit…

Did I say anything about camping? This is two and a half weeks of physical onsite work in the desert in August, four hours away from hotels. It can (and has) hit 115 degrees in the shade and if you don’t have A/C you can get heatstroke and die. Camping or not, A/C is a necessity for a lot of people, not an option.…

The popular Honda EU2200i small generators - like mine - run at 48 to 57Db, quieter than a normal conversation. The cheaper competition like the Predator inverter generators are also quite quiet.

The construction/jobsite generators are much louder, though.

I have a basic 23' travel trailer with a single standard roof mounted 110V 13,500 BTU A/C unit. The battery bank required to power my A/C unit for a week of average summertime desert use - full blast, 6 hours a day in 100 degree heat - would likely cost more than my camper and weigh 600 lbs plus, or I can use a pair…

Yep, summed it up nicely.

But if you go to a gas station that has a 2009 diesel pump it won’t work on a 2016 diesel car, and a truck diesel pump also won’t work on a diesel car. And your old neighbor is very familiar with all this because they lived through 20+ years of 15/16" leaded fuel nozzles being too big to fit in the 13/16" openings of…

Sure. Most vehicles don’t have a low oil level light though, but nearly every car and truck sold in the US for the last 60+ years has an oil pressure warning light.

No, not everybody, just the people who say idiotic things. Like equating obstructed tags for all the functions of traffic enforcement.

And the PPA has taken over 500,000 cars in Philly from 2002 to 2016 alone under Live Stop.

This thread has wasted enough time. Seeya!

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Yup. We have a Bolt and a level 2 charger.
Plugs into a standard NEMA-50 outlet, full 259 mile charge in about 6-7 hours overnight with the charger pulling 32A max. The NEMA-50 is rated for about 42 amps continuous with a 20% safety factor. So that outlet can handle a higher output level 2 charger for, say, a Tesla…

The correct answer is that you don’t buy and install a hard wired charger, you have an industry standard NEMA-50 wall outlet ($12 at Lowe’s) wired in and you buy a charger with a plug. If charging connector interfaces change in ten years, or you move to a new place you just unplug your old charger and go from there.

That oil light was probably for oil pressure, not oil level.

Most vehicles will run a quart low for many hundreds of miles, but if you run under load like that with oil pressure low enough to turn the idiot light on, blowing up the motor is pretty likely.

Look, if you act like an idiot don’t complain when you’re treated like one.

Tickets still get issued for these offenses, it’s by mail. Which you would know if you read the article. Tickets - even parking tickets - are integrated with the state DMV. If you don’t pay, you get suspended. You park on the street while…

That’s definitely not the case in many places. The city tries to double the taxes (to $8,000/yr) on my elderly parents’ modest, kinda run-down rowhouse every 2 years and has regularly attempted that for more than a decade now. The house hasn’t changed one bit but the assessed value of the houses around it have doubled…