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Ha. Had a Honda Civic station wagon once that had this problem: Every time one would try to close the driver's side door it would bounce back out...
For what it's worth, I used this locksmith: Asbury-MS Locksmithing, located near North Brunswick, with a dealer blank key. He charged $35 or so to...
Umm... Putting two batteries in parallel personally gives me the willies. It's one thing if they're in parallel and get charged together and stay...
Interesting. I don't know if the SPI acronym you're using here is the same one that I run into on a normal day, but I suppose it's possible....
Hokay. Senior Electronics Wrangler, DC to Daylight. Design, Build, Test, Field Returns. We build pipes. Long, optical pipes. (You go on the...
Well, I worry about clock synchronization in the telephone network. That's plesiochronous time, so we sweat averages more than instantaneous phase...
Sergio, Don't pay too much attention to the voltage. What batteries and such supply to the motors is Power, which is related to voltage by P =...
Actually, it's not just the magnitude: It's the average value. Cycle-to-cycle time on the 60 Hz grid has never been very good (speaking as a...
All right. For what it's worth, In the year and a bit that I've had my Prius, I've seen the gas gauge go down, but I sure haven't seen it go back...
Yep. I've got ideas. And facts to back them up, too! Had a 2000 Honda Odyssey. It started doing things like that right after my wife and I got...
I've been reading through the comments, and think I have something to add. I work in an engineering environment. We build equipment, while not...
Offhand, sounds vaguely like your fan motor has bit the dust. Of course, it might not be the fan motor: Ye random thermostat, fuse, etc. etc. may...
Basic deal: A fully charged 12V lead-acid car battery usually clocks in a bit north of 13 V. Second: There's mostly six cells in a car battery,...
And, if I got this right, a lot of different power resistors. There's a difference between the battery that starts a dump truck and the one that...
I have more digital multimeters coming out of my ears at work than I know what to do with: The cart wasn't one of them. And it wasn't a VOM (or,...
Hokay, I'm both a shade tree mechanic and an Electrical Engineer. And getting to be a bit of an old codger by now. This bit about, "The dealer...
Actually, not so much as you might think. First, the Prius's gas engine is pretty efficient; a slight uphill won't faze it all that much,...
Winter weather. The Prius has a pretty good stability system. I suppose it's possible to swap ends, but, in a couple of hours of trying on a...
First: The Prius uses regenerative brakes. The car doesn't get back all the energy it put into speeding up, but enough energy to make a major...
Sigh. Like you, I have a Prius that isn't covered under the ToyotaCare package (delivery in December, 2009). Second: Toyota changed its policies...
