Sadly, its numbers are comparable to Hyundai’s Ioniq 6, which might be the best EV on the market right now. Seems a lot of EVs are tanking in sales now.

From the sound of it, as long as you can take it apart, it is in good condition, and the head and valve aren’t made of plastic, you can refill the suppressing agent (water, foam, CO2 or powder) and repressurize it. If it doesn’t leak, you should be good to go. Plastic working parts seem to indicate the disposable models. I guess take it in and see what they say – one site said they may even refill a disposable if it’s fairly new and holds up well to the process. I see there are some local guidelines that say you should replace anything after x years, regardless of condition, so results may vary.

Hey, get on board, man. It’s for science.

Many firehalls (at least the ones in Canada) will recharge your fire extinguisher for free if you bring it by.

As a kid, I thought they looked like someone nuked the dick out of a crappy frozen mini pizza. But I wouldn’t want to cosplay that.

Have you never had a meeting that bypassed the project manager? Where the three or four people who will actually figure out the technical details start a call and hash everything out in 15 minutes, after weeks of 1 hour meetings that everyone has avoided for months? Every meeting would be like that in a utopia; no more middle managers, just people who know what they’re doing.

I think a boring, active, hot top is exactly what much of Lemmy is looking for.

Everybody on Lemmy thinking Windows 10 users have to choose among buying a new PC, switching to Linux, or waiting for Microsoft to blink, but six bucks and my right nut says the overwhelming majority aren’t going to do squat when their machine stops updating.

Ooh, loving the JWST (Jack Webb Star Trek) post!

Yep, I had a 2002 Kia Rio and the part looked familiar when I scrolled past! What I meant is that I assume the mechanical timing still permits the electrical timing to function without the sensor, it just isn’t firing optimally. If it was completely dependent on the sensor for firing the plugs, I figured it would either not run at all, or worse, cause a bad enough misfire that could do some cylinder damage. Though maybe there isn’t a bad enough misfire to do that? I don’t know enough about them.

I also had a 2007 Sonata that blew up a few years ago when the timing chain broke, so some experience with failed mechanical timing too :) That was a great car I wish I’d tried to rebuild the engine on, but I just downsized to one car instead. Good luck with your Tucson! Good to see the older cars still ticking along.

I swapped one of these on an old Kia once. Dealer wanted over a hundred for the part, but I was able to get an OEM part on ebay straight from South Korea for less than twenty bucks shipped. IIRC, the hardest part was disconnecting the wiring harness on the old one. Like yours, it took a while to figure out what was wrong with the car, as it didn’t throw the expected code right away. It just suddenly started running poorly. I think it’s mostly for optimisation, and the basic timing works well enough from physical position, else my interference engine likely would have blown itself up at some point.

Ok, didn’t realise I was responding to a mouth breather. Go back to reddit, clown.

I put in an offer on a house that had been on the market for months at 97% of their asking price. I was pretty familiar with the market, and the offer was probably more than the house was worth, but I had seen 80ish homes by that point, and this was by far the best fit. It was still very much a buyer’s market at this time, and people would crow about getting offers so close to their asking price. Well, my realtor came back and told me the guy said my offer made his wife cry and they refused to negotiate further. Well ok, I moved on. About six weeks later they came back and asked if my offer was still good. I guess they finally got another offer and it was much lower. We did close the sale, but I found out later that his selling agent said he was one of those nightmare clients that just had totally unrealistic expectations about the whole process. Facebook marketplace is basically this without the agents to facilitate the process, so its pretty messy at times.

Maybe take it down about 20 percent there, friend. You commented that Ottawa drivers speed up to 90 between speed cameras. I replied, a bit tongue in cheek, that Ottawa drivers don’t drive 90, not even on the 417, where they’re supposed to. Ottawa is the only city I have driven in where significant numbers of people drive at or below the speed limit, even when traffic would permit them to go faster, and that was the case even before the speed cameras. That generally forces everyone else to be honest enough, but I concur, Ottawans definitely hammer the brakes down even harder right before a speed camera. Or while merging on the 417.

No, and they really don’t need them. Ottawans merge somewhere between 60 and 80, and drive more slowly in general. In most Ontario cities, driving at 100 in the left lane will get you run over. In Ottawa, you will be passing everyone.

We still have Toys R Us and Party City here, and they seem to be doing fine. Blockbuster isn’t really needed anymore. Old school Radio Shack would be pretty cool though.

Aware, and I fully agree. I am just adding to the point that not only does it fail to address the safety issue, but the massive uptick in tickets generated by this solution will inevitably spill over into an already overwhelmed court system, which will cost us economically and socially.

Nobody drives 90 in Ottawa. Especially not on the 417.

Then you tick the court date box and mail it back to them. Then two or three years later, you get a court date, so you dust off your form letter charter 11b challenge, send it off to all relevant parties, head down to the Winchester and wait for all of this to blow over.

Applications such as Exchange/Outlook turn a double dash to an em dash when you type it. I’ve used them for a couple decades.