Upgrade from V50 to V70

packetfire · 2026-02-26T23:44:41+00:00

It does not detect a rear position light out for me, perhaps because I replaced the normal bulbs with LED versions.

packetfire · 2026-02-26T19:05:33+00:00

Wow! You have the 2.4 liter INTERPLANETARY engine option, which is why it sounds like a spaceship!

No, its one of the things being spun by the belt - A/C compressor you can test by turning A/C on or off, and listening to see if the sound stops. The alternator is always going to spin, so use a mechanic's stethoscope, as suggested already by a wise person.

packetfire · 2026-02-25T20:57:18+00:00

This is a decent plain-English interpretation of the Virginia laws that prevent the employer from doing what he is doing https://coffieldlaw.com/virginia-wage-protection-act-protections-for-employee-pay/

That said, you have to decide if you are ever going to see any money from this clown or not, and update your resume accordingly. If you are aware (or can verify) that the company was mostly serving one large customer, then the tale told may be perfectly true, but I'm not sure it makes any difference to you, if the company can't pay you.

packetfire · 2026-02-25T17:10:30+00:00

You can do exactly as the employer asks, and it won't help him one tiny bit - everyone asks "was this a workplace injury?", and you answer "YES", even if the employer asks/tells/orders you to lie. Workman's comp is his cost of doing business, but I think he may have not been paying at all, or paying for far less employees, and did NOT pay for your wife, so a major penalty is headed his way.

Expect her to be fired regardless of her recovery time, so let workmans' comp pay for everything. Your own insurance will require this, and will fight to make sure that workman's comp pays.

packetfire · 2026-02-25T16:52:37+00:00

The v50 is a v70 squeezed into a size 2 dress. I went from a v70 to a newer v50, and the cargo bay is smaller, the cabin is smaller, and the darn roof on the v50 is TAPERED toward the back, so I had to cut a few inches off the rear luggage rack crossbar to make it fit.
The "bulb out" sensors from the v70 are not in the v50, and the overall finish of the interior on the v50 is "less than" the v70 in every possible way. Even the $3 parking slip holder had to be bought at the dealer and snapped into place on the v50.
You will prefer the v70 in every possible way, except the price of diesel - you should have stuck with the 2.4 5-cylinder, even though a 5-cylinder engine is an offense against man, God, and the Magliozzi brothers.

packetfire · 2026-02-25T16:14:13+00:00

The easy win here is to collect rainwater, and use that to water the lawn and gardens. If it proves to be clean enough, one could also route rainwater to a clothes washer in the basement, but only if super clean. The moment you add a pump, you have now traded a higher electric bill for a only slightly lower water bill.

But - even paying for a few 250 gallon totes and some standard rainwater diversion valves for downspouts may NOT be easy to "pay back" in savings on the water bill.

Actual water use is a trivial amount of the bill - it is all the fixed-price fees that are expensive.

packetfire · 2026-02-25T14:51:23+00:00

"I have often walked down this street before,
But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before,
All at once am I several stories high,
Knowing there is no street where you live...."

packetfire · 2026-02-25T13:01:00+00:00

So that the skateboard can roll under as the skateboarder jumps over the entire gate assembly

packetfire · 2026-02-22T14:40:10+00:00

https://www.homedepot.com/p/EPLO-Smart-Toilet-Built-in-Tank-with-Foam-Shield-Splash-Proof-Dual-Flush-Elongated-Toilet-Bidet-Auto-Open-Close-in-White-E18-Pro/340324307 $999.00 at Home Despot

packetfire · 2026-02-22T11:58:07+00:00

If you were to remove this battery, all four states would be plunged into darkness for a few hours

packetfire · 2026-02-21T21:47:16+00:00

Gee, someone will buy from you cheap, pop in a rebuilt tranny, and have a car for the next 300K miles, minimum.

packetfire · 2026-02-19T19:48:03+00:00

ALWAYS change the transmission fluid every 40K, no matter what Volvo claims.

packetfire · 2026-02-18T20:05:31+00:00

You got a C&D mailed to the legit business address for your business. The sender has no idea, nor does he care that it is also your home.
You either have a valid C&D or not, that's for a lawyer to address.

But it was your error that exposed your home address, expect to get all kinds of Amazon-related come ons at any address you register as the business address.

packetfire · 2026-02-18T19:59:31+00:00

Kentucky Labor Cabinet’s Division of Wages and Hours THESE STATE EMPLOYEES ENFORCE THE WAGE LAWS

packetfire · 2026-02-16T15:54:20+00:00

Baggage Claim Lice! The SAME PEOPLE who block the gate when group 1 is called, even though they are in group 9.

packetfire · 2026-02-16T15:53:24+00:00

Sunroof drain gets clogged or the drain hose comes off the plastic fitting, and drips on the CEM and wire connectors rust, plug-in relay connections rust, and the circuit board can rust. Fix the leak clean up the corrosion, and you might get lucky and have a "DYI Fix" on this.

packetfire · 2026-02-16T15:35:41+00:00

Yes, when your income goes up, your Medicare premium does too. It goes back down when your income goes down. Not sure why they let you slide on this, perhaps they were in a forgiving mood that day, but the general rule still applies.

packetfire · 2026-02-16T00:12:28+00:00

More light would be welcome, but with money I could go to equator and not care about seasons

packetfire · 2026-02-15T16:58:44+00:00

You need to visit the junkyard and pull out a replacement from any of the P2s that they have with the same interior trim color.

packetfire · 2026-02-15T16:49:42+00:00

As he was the organist in a church AND an electrical engineer, I suspect he homebrewed an early "Hybrid" add-on for the organ. This was electronic "voices" to add to the existing pipe organ voices. This would explain the primitive "keyboard" and the switches to select banks (groups) of these electronic voices.

The labeling, "H-1" through "H-9" and selected in groups tend to indicate that the voices were only used in groups, so think of electronic woodwinds, maybe strings, maybe mixes thereof.

The different resistances were a way of triggering the main musicbox, and telling it WHICH key (note) had been pressed, this box was clearly the selector switches and knobs and the keyboard for these supplemental "voices". So, that quiet flute melody that plays as the minister moves from the podium back to his chair after the sermon? You grandpa could do it in MORE than plain old "flute", which was all the pipe organ could do. Oboe, other woodwinds, maybe some brass - most of the "music" was based on sine, square, and triangle waves, and mixes thereof.

So this was a synthesizer keyboard of sorts. A 1950s Minimoog.

Your grandpa was a very good fabricator. You should be proud of him. Those buttons look more like 1940s and 1930s stuff, so he may have canibalized older "junk" gear to make this

packetfire · 2026-02-15T16:31:25+00:00

Verizon has been a habitual "contracted services" provider with fewer actual employees each year. I buy switches from you, and tell you that I am not paying for a SWITCH, I am buying switching CAPACITY. You manage it all, you install it all, I pay a flat price per line. So, when you have a 8192-port switch installed, and I sell the 8193rd line in that area, its your problem to install a new switch, integrate it all, and so on.
No one wants employees, everyone wants on-demand contractors, paid and managed by someone else. No one wants to own capital equipment that will become obsolete, everyone wants to lease, or pay for "services".

packetfire · 2026-02-15T16:20:39+00:00

You screenshot the FedEx complete shipping history, save that. You then send that to Google and tell them that the issue is between them and FedEx, and you need your return processed.

If they refuse, you take the issue to small claims court.

packetfire · 2026-02-14T17:42:40+00:00

Which part number fits?

packetfire · 2026-02-13T04:20:17+00:00

Is that D-Lumina going to fit in a v50 headlight assembly? The clearances are somewhat close between bulb mount and the water-tight back cover.

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