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First we'd need to know what the hell it does. All I can guess is something with bytes or nibbles.

No idea what endian, if bytes. Or what it is supposed to accomplish.

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This is the wrong thread.

My car's wipers sound like a squeaky jackhammer when they move.

Hoping it's somehow just the motor and not the linkage, but my hopes are low.

Whaddya know, it is just the motor.

Wiper motor's fixed, but now my transmission is failing. At the very least, the overdrive unit on it has definitely failed.

Yes, I tried purging the fluid.

God dammit.

I do have an OD unit on another car that I can steal, but I have never done this before.

Also the transmission's the same as the one in some late 90's and maybe early 2000's models of Toyota Tacoma, so if it comes down to it it should be somewhat easy to find a whole new one, I think?

Would still much rather swap a manual in… but ugh. So much work either way. I think I remember the synchros were going bad on the manual I've got. And I'd have to replace the drive shaft to get a different gearing ratio for the manual to get decent fuel economy.
And I'd need to find a shifter boot.
And I would need to find someone with a lift I can take up for a day or two, and a day or two that I can just work on it and do nothing else.
Why does life have to be so hard? I mean, yeah, I bring this on myself, but really.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Sep 26 2021, 23:09

I need a new battery, I love how they always fail like a week after the warranty ends.

I got a USB hub for my car. Tempted to see what other things I can put in there and how the OS will resolve them.

USB hubs in cars...
What has the world come to.

USB hubs in cars...
What has the world come to.

Cars have been running their own OEM bundled wifi hotspots since at least 2015.

And I would need to find someone with a lift I can take up for a day or two, and a day or two that I can just work on it and do nothing else.
Why does life have to be so hard? I mean, yeah, I bring this on myself, but really.

As a fellow owner operator of old high milage vehicles, I offer my sympathy but meaningfull advice.

Cars have been running their own OEM bundled wifi hotspots since at least 2015.

Yeah, I know.
It's awful and just makes them cost more.

"We are trying to jumpstart our air conditioning"


me: ???????

Doing a brake job on the bimmer. 4 rotors, the pads, parking brake shoes + hardware, brake wear sensors, and some fresh brake fluid. Calipers and pins should be just fine still.

Truck could probally use some attention to the rear brakes, but it's old and rusty enough I'm half afraid to touch anything chassis that doesn't need it. Not too long ago I did it's front brakes entirely- pads, rotors, wheel bearings, calipers, brake hoses, brake lines.

Doing a brake job on the bimmer. 4 rotors, the pads, parking brake shoes + hardware, brake wear sensors, and some fresh brake fluid. Calipers and pins should be just fine still.

Truck could probally use some attention to the rear brakes, but it's old and rusty enough I'm half afraid to touch anything chassis that doesn't need it. Not too long ago I did it's front brakes entirely- pads, rotors, wheel bearings, calipers, brake hoses, brake lines.

I changed out everything, calipers, pads, rotors.


I need to change my battery though, they seem to die a day after the warranty expires.

I don't know why people who buy utes need headlights that can pierce the space time continuum.

I hate having retinas fried every time one of these bogan fuckwits decide to drive at night.

"We are trying to jumpstart our air conditioning"
me: ???????

It actually could be an electrical air conditioning problem.
My parents' 2018 volvo uses an electric motor for cranking the compressor instead of the engine.

Still, it's not the battery if the car is starting. And I cringed at everything else in that video.

Also my transmission is indeed fucking dead.

Oh well. 300k miles on a shit automatic transmission's doing pretty well as far as I'm concerned. And although the odo was stuck in my parts car, its transmission might still be under 150k-200k (stuck at 129k miles; no idea how long it was stuck for).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Oct 2 2021, 01:44

I don't know why people who buy utes need headlights that can pierce the space time continuum.

I hate having retinas fried every time one of these bogan fuckwits decide to drive at night.

And they use them all the fucking time and don't turn the high beam off when approaching other cars.

It actually could be an electrical air conditioning problem.
My parents' 2018 volvo uses an electric motor for cranking the compressor instead of the engine.

Still, it's not the battery if the car is starting. And I cringed at everything else in that video.

Yeah, I am pretty sure here it is illegal to drive with jumpers connected to another car. That video also misses the first half of the cringefest.

They all have phones, couldn't they literally google up a diagnosis and realise that what they are doing doesn't make sense?

And they use them all the fucking time and don't turn the high beam off when approaching other cars.
Yeah, I am pretty sure here it is illegal to drive with jumpers connected to another car. That video also misses the first half of the cringefest.

Americans just do this but with higher-lifted pickup trucks. And light bars.

They all have phones, couldn't they literally google up a diagnosis and realise that what they are doing doesn't make sense?

Googling car problems never works for me. Ever. Not without spending an hour digging.

Too many people giving bad/wrong advice.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Oct 2 2021, 04:48

Americans just do this but with higher-lifted pickup trucks. And light bars.
Googling car problems never works for me. Ever. Not without spending an hour digging.

Too many people giving bad/wrong advice.

I guess it depends if there is a hardcore technical following for your model. My car is so well documented that the communities find issues before the manufacturer does and reports it to them.

I guess it depends if there is a hardcore technical following for your model. My car is so well documented that the communities find issues before the manufacturer does and reports it to them.

Mine does have a technical following. That's why they're so common in lemons races.
[24hoursoflemons.com] https://24hoursoflemons.com/blog/volvo-240-...ebowski-lemons/

The more common problems are well documented on a variety of sites.
It's just there's also a lot of idiots with them out there.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Oct 2 2021, 15:36