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cursedshitbox posted:You nicely summed up why I quit loving wrenching on other peoples junk for a paycheck. Manufacturer: Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC. SUMMARY: ALLEGED THAT THE TRUNK-MOUNTED BATTERY CAN EXPLODE WHILE EITHER DRIVING OR STATIONARY, POTENTIALLY CAUSING INJURY FROM FRAGMENT AND ACID SPRAY. 98-99 C-Class :P
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CharlesM posted:Corrosion on the connector? One of my Subarus did that. The pigtail harness was replaceable. You sometimes see that with a bulb that's burned out too. Whacking it makes the broken filament make contact again.. until it's turned off and cools.
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Oct 26, 2016 06:54
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CharlesM posted:Corrosion on the connector? One of my Subarus did that. The pigtail harness was replaceable. I had a connector that looked fine, but still wouldn't conduct its business. Bent the pin a bit so the connection got more surface area, problem solved.
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Oct 26, 2016 08:11
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CharlesM posted:Corrosion on the connector? One of my Subarus did that. The pigtail harness was replaceable. Right turn signal on my Subaru is doing that right now. It doesn't fully go out but the change in resistance messes with the blinker circuit. Where did you get the connectors?
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Oct 26, 2016 09:55
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Hugh G. Rectum posted:Right turn signal on my Subaru is doing that right now. It doesn't fully go out but the change in resistance messes with the blinker circuit. Where did you get the connectors? I think I had that one serviced at the dealer so Subaru itself.
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Oct 26, 2016 10:16
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Friends bought not 1 but 2 similar era 80's Mercedes because they like the look of them. The first one they bought in NYC and drove to Los Angeles. They only had to repair it 3 times along the way, including before they got out of New York. I laughed pretty heartily at them shopping for the second one here in LA after that experience. Neither of them have done so much as an oil change in their life. I advised them to buy a Civic to complement their fashion accessories. I can't wait to hear more stories! 
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Oct 26, 2016 11:00
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CharlesM posted:
C =/= E. http://www.mercedesmedic.com/diy-battery-replacement-benz-e320-e430-e55-w210-1996-2002/ Eat me.
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Hugh G. Rectum posted:Right turn signal on my Subaru is doing that right now. It doesn't fully go out but the change in resistance messes with the blinker circuit. Where did you get the connectors? If the bulb is some kind of standard size you can get a connector for it, chop off the old one, put on new one with whatever is the fashionable way to connect and protect wires these days. If its Subaru's own I guess you pay whatever they want.
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Oct 26, 2016 19:12
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cursedshitbox posted:C =/= E. To be fair, the '97 E320 my dad inherited still holds the record for the longest lived battery in any car anyone in my family has owned - at around five years. Getting them out of the engine bay really does help in AZ. That car was fantastic when it worked, but a dumpster fire when it didn't.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Getting them out of the engine bay really does help in AZ. It also helps with balance by moving a block of lead to the back of the car. BMW got this right on the E46, the battery is in the trunk under an easily removed plastic panel. You don't need any tools beyond a simple wrench (10mm I think?) to change the battery, and said wrench is in the factory tool kit mounted feet away on the underside of the trunk lid. It's a win-win, all the advantages of getting it out of the engine bay while still being equally convenient to work on as the traditional placement.
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cursedshitbox posted:C =/= E. Oh, you misunderstand, you just reminded me of exploding Mercedes batteries. I know the difference between a C and E class 
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Oct 27, 2016 02:59
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Not really a horrible mechanical failure as just a horrible failure This is at my local $250/month very nice makerspace 
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Oct 27, 2016 04:02
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I'd be surprised if they got any penetration on a piece of metal that thick. You can probably just snap it off with a good blow from a sledgehammer. Still amazingly dumb, though.
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Oct 27, 2016 04:13
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thebigcow posted:If the bulb is some kind of standard size you can get a connector for it, chop off the old one, put on new one with whatever is the fashionable way to connect and protect wires these days. That's what I did with my 2000 Silverado. Got some new(ish) connectors from a junkyard, cut off the old ones and spliced them together with some heat shrink wrappers. Also, What the gently caress is a "makerspace" that someone pays 250/month for.
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Johnny Aztec posted:Also, What the gently caress is a "makerspace" that someone pays 250/month for. They’re paying for access to a shop with a bunch of prohibitively expensive tools. IDK what kind of tools a Makerspace™ has worth $250∕month, but it must be good. 
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Oct 27, 2016 04:38
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The one nearest to me has a 5-axis CNC machine and a waterjet cutter. But yeah you're right $250 a month is a total ripoff for access to that kind of thing
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Fayez Butts posted:Not really a horrible mechanical failure as just a horrible failure Yeah, I did that the first time I tried MIG welding too 
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Oct 27, 2016 04:50
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I would be willing to bet the person involved was wearing a fixed shade welding helmet, and "Missed".
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Oct 27, 2016 05:00
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MRC48B posted:I would be willing to bet the person involved was wearing a fixed shade welding helmet, and "Missed". Actually all the ones the space supplies are auto-dimming. The space offers nice stuff like a full wood and metal shop with cnc for both, a bunch of high quality additive manufacturing and everything one needs to make PCBs but where it gets really shiesty is that they charge extra for use of some tools. like the laser cutter is $20/hr, the waterjet is $100/hr, the shopbot's like $50... I never even bothered to ask how much the high end cnc stuff costed.
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Oct 27, 2016 05:07
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That...makes me feel really loving lucky to have all of that poo poo at work. Jesus.
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I wish I had a makerspace nearby to have access to any of those tools.
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Oct 27, 2016 11:50
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I've never even heard of this before, and I have zero doubt the nearest one is hours away.
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Oct 27, 2016 21:50
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What the hell do they have that you're paying $240 a month?
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I'm guessing it's just a matter of time before someone loses a hand to a CNC machine or something and they all get litigated into oblivion. Kind of like how it's super hard to find a garage bay to rent for apartment dwellers to do big jobs on their ride. Who the gently caress is going to let some unknown dipshit gently caress around with a hydraulic lift or impact wrench?
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Oct 27, 2016 21:56
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xzzy posted:I'm guessing it's just a matter of time before someone loses a hand to a CNC machine or something and they all get litigated into oblivion. Thank God for the military. On every decent size Canadian Forces base I've been to there's an auto club, monthly membership with access to lifts+air+tools. I'm dreading when the shithammer does come down and they all close though, because everything good gets axed eventually in the military.
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stevobob posted:Thank God for the military. On every decent size Canadian Forces base I've been to there's an auto club, monthly membership with access to lifts+air+tools. I'm dreading when the shithammer does come down and they all close though, because everything good gets axed eventually in the military. US military has been closing these down for the past several years, and it's terrible.
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Oct 27, 2016 22:08
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I saved so much money using USAF hobby shops. RIP
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xsf421 posted:US military has been closing these down for the past several years, and it's terrible. That's mostly because no one uses them, seemingly. I've used them on every loving base I've ever been to. It saved my rear end when we lived in an apartment and the car needed work, but we were also broke because I was an E3.
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I basically rebuilt my F150 at the one on Ft. Lewis. Saved my wallet a lot of pain when the suspension all decided to fail at once (hidden rust).
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SEKCobra posted:I wish I had a makerspace nearby to have access to any of those tools. I just looked up my local one and it's $50/mo without a single metal working tool
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1500quidporsche posted:What the hell do they have that you're paying $240 a month? xzzy posted:I'm guessing it's just a matter of time before someone loses a hand to a CNC machine or something and they all get litigated into oblivion. I'd wager a sizeable part of the $250/month fee goes towards liability insurance and/or a legal fund. Or is prohibitively expensive to deter idiots who never took a day of shop class (much less ever set foot on an actual production floor) who would lose a hand to a CNC machine in the first place...
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FatCow posted:I just looked up my local one and it's $50/mo without a single metal working tool So what do you do there? That's pretty much the whole point to me. I want to make either PCBs, metal stuff or really high quality 3D printing. There is a wannabe hackerspace in my city, but all they have is a lovely reprap. I was there once and everyone just sat in silence staring into their laptop.
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Sorry, I lied. They have a HF quality mini-lathe, a "CNC" that uses a Dremel to hold the tool and smallish milling machine. It's mostly woodworking tools and 3d printers.
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Found a box of my old stuff cleaning out my basement and found the one piece of my first aw11 mr2 I have left: I wish I had pictures of what the block looked like, 2 holes on each side that you could easily see through. 4age's are tough motors, but this is what horrible abuse, overheating and lack of oil does to one.
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Tractor pull goes... poorly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzp0DAtYPGE
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Oct 29, 2016 20:00
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Another view
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Oct 29, 2016 20:58
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I hope they at least let him count his distance as being to where it landed.
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`Nemesis posted:Another view "The Little Engine Who Couldn't Because He Was A Lazy Bum Like Your Father".
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It was then towed outside of the enviroment.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Tractor pull goes... poorly. Not as noisy as I'd expect a failure of that magnitude to be.
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