There’s really nothing TO break. The thing is moved by the pressure from the washer pump. It’s about as complex as a stationary one, except they have to have two plastic pieces instead of one. In my old car, the windshield washer nozzles snapped under the hood due to the heat but the headlight washers still work fine.

Okay. I did. This one (paragraph 9, 10) says I’m allowed to pull out my laptop and read while using it. Let me get my Tesla and go do that.

It’s not like Toyota did a recall yesterday for an equal number of cable-operated parking brakes on a car with a very similar target market...

It’s not potentially spark-filled, it IS spark filled. The intake air (and gasoline vapors) are drawn past the motor’s commutator, which produces occasional sparks as the motor turns. This is especially likely to happen as the motor starts and stops. An explosion is effectively guaranteed to happen.

That might not be true, actually.

Check this out:

You’re wrong and your idea is shitty.

It has been done on the actual console! Granted, they are using a microcontroller to press the buttons, but here you go:

It’s almost certainly because the field coil requires 5-10% of the alternator’s output current to go. That’s a lot of power to waste in this kind of setup, especially since you can easily do the same thing for free with permanent magnets.

In theory, it cannot. But usually there is enough residual magnetism for it to “self-excite” and start generating electricity again. It doesn’t need much. You probably can’t push start a modern car with a 100% flat battery anyway because the computers wouldn’t be powered up. If there’s enough power for that, there’s…

Mine had two replacements. Last one failed at 180k and we just gave up. Miss it a lot though...

The transmission wasn’t your fault. The transmission is always shot because it was a catastrophically terrible design.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/fatal-distraction-forgetting-a-child-in-thebackseat-of-a-car-is-a-horrifying-mistake-is-it-a-crime/2014/06/16/8ae0fe3a-f580-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html

It does happen to anyone

Yes, this one is my favorite:

Read this:

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I’d suggest reading this:

Lucky you didn’t burn out multiple transmissions. Our 01 broke an axle on the first turn of an 8 hour road trip and melted its second transmission during another. At that point we just scrapped it. Other than that it was a wonderful road-tripper.

Yeah that’s what I thought. Still odd.