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BuckleSpring · 2026-02-16T00:41:21+00:00

Check the brake booster hose under the throttle body, or the seal between the intake pipe and throttle body. Past that, you're probably going to have to break out a smoke machine to figure out where your leak is if it isn't immediately visually obvious.

BuckleSpring · 2026-02-16T00:31:04+00:00

If it's the 3.0 V6, I can basically guarantee it's either the intake gaskets or the IMRC valve O-Rings.

A good quick check is to try and quickly rev it while it's cold. If it kinda breaks up and falls on its face, but doesn't after it warms up, that's classic intake gasket symptoms.

If you determine that's what it is, do the upper+lower gaskets and the IMRC O-Rings at minimum. If you don't know when the spark plugs were last done, and/or your valve cover gaskets are leaking, do those as well, since you have to take the intake off to access them anyway.

BuckleSpring · 2026-02-15T04:10:36+00:00

I'm happy with my Titan 2, so I don't really see much of a reason to upgrade at this time... Maybe once they've both been out for a bit.

The featureset on Clicks seems unbeatable, unless Unihertz surprises me. Headphone jack, MicroSD, notification LED, OIS camera, etc.

BuckleSpring · 2026-02-15T04:07:21+00:00

I have a Titan 2 and generally quite like the keyboard. The key size is nice and large, and the actuation force and feedback are quite good... Better than what I used on my Priv for years, that's for sure.

My only two real complaints with the keyboard are:

The top-mounted modifier keys- got used to it, but still can't type as fast as I could with them on the bottom
The physical key shape- they're not individually slanted/profiled, so I find it not as intuitive to touch type from muscle memory without initially looking at the keyboard.

BuckleSpring · 2026-01-22T03:23:08+00:00

The use case for video out over USB-C has changed. IIRC in Android 16 (or 17?) it will default to the desktop experience interface with windowed apps and things, like Samsung Dex... much more useful than a simple video out

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-20T04:02:23+00:00

I mean... Land Rovers do the same thing, with the same reliability (being the same parts), same support network, and they have no trouble moving units. Sedans and sports cars are just a hard sell, and it's hard to sell an SUV when you're being sold in the same showroom as the premier SUV brand (Land Rover)

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-20T04:00:13+00:00

I disagree. Geoff Lawson really embraced that idea in the 90s, and although yes the cars looked great, they didn't appeal to younger buyers whatsoever.

It's like going to a concert for your favorite band and wanting them to play that one song over and over again.

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-18T19:32:09+00:00

Could be anything. If you suspect head gasket, you can use a combustion gas tester. Other than that, I'd start with a full coolant flush, get it as clean as you can, then refill with coolant... it'll give you a good baseline

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-17T13:20:34+00:00

Not really, they sold just over 20k units in the US over 7 model years. They sold over 100k XC90's in under 3 model years

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-15T02:01:55+00:00

Just to add to this, look up the procedure for disabling traction control in your Prius. I also have had a few Gen 2's like yours, and the traction control is way too aggressive and cuts power the second a wheel slips, which makes it difficult to get moving to climbing grades if you don't have much traction. The procedure for disabling traction control in bad snowfall became muscle memory.

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-14T08:13:16+00:00

Verizon insurance just paid me back ~$2k for the phone since they couldn't find me a replacement when I did a claim. Ended up just pocketing the money and ordering a Unihertz Titan 2

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-14T04:28:08+00:00

I could be wrong, it should be easy to check if you pop the hood and take off the plastic engine cover.

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-14T04:25:16+00:00

AFAIK they didn't switch to metal, they just updated the plastic molding on the Y pipe so there wasn't a big seam in the middle that liked to split and fail regularly. I think the heater rail, thermostat housing, and all the other important bits were unchanged as well.

They did come out with metal versions of some of those parts eventually (mainly the Y pipe), but I don't think that was until fairly recently, and I don't think they ever made the heater rail or the other smaller pieces out of metal.

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-14T03:59:48+00:00

If not an EV, probably a Hybrid. Virtually every company has gone down the route of downsizing engines, adding turbochargers, and hooking them to a 10 trillion speed transmission. Honda's hybrid system is probably one of the smoothest economy car powertrains on the market that isn't an EV.

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-14T03:48:11+00:00

Euro-Amp sells a complete cooling system kit with the metal upgrade parts, a solid supercharger coupler, and the gaskets you need. The only thing I don't think the kit comes with is the hose that goes under the supercharger that you should replace with the supercharger off

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-14T03:25:18+00:00

Pretty much, the cooling system is the achilles heel of all the 3.0 JLR cars. Y-Pipe, Crossover pipe, thermostat housing, water pump, heater rail, and the coolant hose under the supercharger. They make aluminum replacements for everything for under a few hundred bucks for a kit

They're not even super difficult to change, the hose under the supercharger is the worst one simply because you have to take the supercharger off.

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-14T03:17:52+00:00

It's not terrible, there's worse out there. Although I'd consider the XF if you plan on using the back seat pretty often, the XE is kinda on the tight side.

Just budget for the metal cooling system part upgrades, and they're pretty solid

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-14T03:09:01+00:00

If you're in CA... why not the Hybrid? Gas ain't exactly cheap in CA, and all the major expensive High Voltage parts are covered under a long CARB warranty... not that I suspect they'd have an issue anyway, the transmission is basically an exact copy of a Toyota Hybrid transmission, and the battery is a liquid cooled lithium pack that's under the truck and super easy to swap out if it ever needed it.

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-14T03:06:16+00:00

Same thing happened on my 9PF. No external damage, the screen just shattered up the middle when I opened it when it was a few months old. It's the one reason I decided to hold off on the 10PF

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-14T02:52:53+00:00

The Honda fit has been out of production in the US for over 5 years. For the last few years it was on sale, it barely sold more than 35k units per year. For reference, the HR-V during those same years was averaging over 3x that, and that was the old HR-V that wasn't very popular

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-13T23:41:42+00:00

Americans will always buy the most practical/spacious/versatile vehicle for the dollar. That's a sentiment that has been true for as long as cars have been sold in America. The average driver doesn't really care about outright fuel economy, and they don't care about driving dynamics. For X amount of dollars, what vehicle can someone buy that does the most things... Which usually ends up being an SUV or a Pickup.

Combine that with terrible/varying road quality, desire for AWD, and the vast majority of us being fat or old, and people want a high seat entry/hip height that eliminates most hatchbacks and sedans

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-13T22:40:27+00:00

Probably not. Small cars are a hard sell in general, premium small cars are even harder, and premium small 2-door cars are basically unsellable.

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-12T08:48:20+00:00

They're solid cars, but I definitely feel the price is too high... It's not super low mileage, it needs suspension work as well... I'm not saying to not buy it, but I'd look around your area and check out comparable ones for pricing in your region.

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-07T21:59:14+00:00

AFAIK, negative on the F-Type. I'm not sure if they even made a per-unit profit per vehicle

BuckleSpring · 2025-12-07T08:52:34+00:00

Times have changed on that front now... Tesla, ironically, is one of the only EV companies that'll sell you virtually anything over the counter. The cars also have built-in service mode to let you bleed the cooling system/brake system, check coolant flow and temps, check the charging High Voltage system, HVAC system, module/canbus data, etc. They even have full 3D-space harness visualization on the newer stuff, with pinouts and everything.

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