Wasn't meant to "concern" you. Just found it interesting. Not worth starting a separate thread. I also heard this was Post Race, are you the Post Race police?Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
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Wasn't meant to "concern" you. Just found it interesting. Not worth starting a separate thread. I also heard this was Post Race, are you the Post Race police?Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
Well, aren't we living in a Post Racial society?
Oop, meeting starting, gotta run. You'll have to supply your own puns for a bit.
lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Yeah, I'm a rebel. I don't play by the rules!!!
Did I imply something concerning me? Don't flatter yourself! I just felt a discomfort in the force when I read your post - I quickly got over it!Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
Bob? Bob?
Of course you didn't imply it concerned you. You stated clearly that it didn't in your previous post. But I do reserve to the right to flatter myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
Ahh, I thought it was just more childish counting coup.
I guess technically Shaggy and I are the Post Race policy. Albeit corrupt soviet style policemen where if you give us enough interesting/random topics then we overlook things.
But don't give us our interesting/random topics and we'll throw you in the gulag!
Oh yeah, his music is great.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
Or the goulash, if we're really stewing.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I meant to be biking today. I was supposed to have started on a 5-6 week bike trip on Saturday, but Thursday evening, I got a hint that things might be what I was expecting. A bit of calling around and then a road trip on Sunday, showed that spring has been a bit delayed on my route. There's so much snow remaining at elevation that I would have been walking over snow for about 20 miles, with few, if any, spots where I could actually ride the bike. The weather would have been fairly warm, though the snow would have kept it cooler.
This will mean that it will be hotter and less pleasant once I get across the mountain portion of the ride, but that's life.
Interesting year.
Last gas powered Camaro will come off the assembly line in January. I jumped on the chance to trade in my current blue Camaro for this gorgeous Red Camaro RS! Those blacked out 20 inch rims put me over the edge!
I have no picture with me, but I picked up a Rav4 Prime about a month ago. They're very hard to get, as the waiting list tends to be up around two years, but I got crazy lucky in that I called a dealership just as they got an unexpected delivery. The Prime is the second most powerful car that Toyota has produced, so the acceleration is impressive, especially at highway speeds, since it's also a plug-in hybrid. I can now do my commute and anything around town entirely on electric, while having gas as a back up for longer trips. I took one of those longer trips this last weekend to scout out snow levels in the mountains. I ended up averaging just under 45 mpg on gas, which was pretty nice.
Not a fan, but not condemning the choice. I hope your Toyota dealership is better than ours, but that's no reflection on the car itself.
It will be interesting to see how things work out. Coping with hot and cold weather isn't their strong suit even with the added failure point of a modest heat pump. You might have to "remote pre-heat" in the Winter.
Does yours have the "exploding airbag of death" that there is a recall battle over right now?
Toyota dealers in Idaho are not allowed to sell the car. Only some states are allowed to sell them, and nobody has given me a straight answer as to why that is. I had about a five hour drive to the dealership. It was quite nice, though.
I'm very much a fan. It's the geekiest car I've ever owned.
The exploding airbags thing is mostly old news. I see no evidence that it still remains an issue with 2023 models in any brand, though it may never have been an issue for these anyways. Consumer Reports states that most of those airbags were deployed up through 2015. 2023 is a few years after that.
Coping with hot weather doesn't seem to be an issue, and I'll have to see about cold weather...though that reminds me that I neglected to open the windows, so the car is going to be more than a bit warm. Can't open the windows now, though, as there's a thunderstorm building right above me. Perhaps the car will cool down by the time I get out there?
My one objection is that I feel they are calculating MPG in a less than ideal fashion. I feel they should only calculate MPG when the gas engine is running, but they calculate it by total miles driven divided by gallons used. Since I can do my commute without using gas, that means that my MPG should start out as NaN, and could remain there for the entire summer.
For the trip I took this last weekend, I waited until the gas engine came on, then pulled over and reset the calculation such that I was seeing MPG when the gas engine was operating. Prior to that, the MPG had topped 120, because there was one long trip on gas (back from the dealership), then only a gallon or two used over the next 700 miles, or so. That's technically correct, but not in any way useful.
You might be thinking of the old series of Takata airbag issues. There appears to be another company now:
https://youtu.be/ADOaPXoNkyI
Interesting. I hadn't heard that one, but after reading up on it, I'd say that it's unlikely to apply to me. The RAV4 Prime is manufactured in either two or three different places. One is Canada, one is Japan, and there may be a third. The Arc airbags mentioned there, which don't seem quite as bad as the earlier Takata issue, though the two are related in some ways, are manufactured in Tennessee. While no story I read mentioned them being used by Toyota, it seems a bit unlikely that they'd be used in the Japanese built Primes, which is what I have.
Recalls happen, though.
The caption of the video is kind of funny. "It becomes a bomb!" No, it always WAS a bomb. They're using ammonium nitrate to explosively inflate the airbag. That's an explosive. The goal is to use it in a small enough quantity, and in a sufficiently open area, that the components can take the force. The issue with the Arc airbags, as alleged by the TSB (and contested by Arc) is that there are constrictions created in the manufacturing process that will concentrate the force beyond the tolerance of some of the parts, thereby resulting in shrapnel.
All airbags are bombs, they are just supposed to be bombs weak enough not to cause too much damage.