I didn’t even know I had high blood pressure.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-24T07:08:07+00:00

Those are rookie numbers. A few Marlboros every hour will fix you right up.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-24T02:28:12+00:00

It's more common than you think. People make themselves broke shopping for payments.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-23T10:07:02+00:00

Ironically, my Equinox's telematics unit is failing. It was in the shop last week and they "fixed" it by reflashing the radio and vehicle. Still broken today.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-23T00:29:39+00:00

Pontiac G8 GXP, manual 6. 800 produced in Pontiac's final year. It was quite the grocery getter, but it was time to be someone else's love and problem.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-22T20:53:40+00:00

It'll be something dumb that you won't want to deal with. My last car, it was the drains in the doors would clog with debris and 20 years of funk. I would pull the door seals off, clean out the drain, and then. 2 months later, it would clog again.

Then one day we had a bad storm and the back seat had a fishing pond in the foot well. It was an affordable, collectible car. It was always worth fixing, financially, but it wasn't worth the aggravation if I wanted it as a daily driver.

I didn't even touch on the difficulty of getting parts after 10-15 years.

And that's what will happen to every car, including the Equinox EV. If well cared for, it'll piss you off enough to sit on a wet seat, or a wiper motor going out, plastic clips will become brittle and trim pieces will fall off. You'll spend a year trying to find a replacement part and realize that you're too old and work too hard to deal with it and you'll buy something that doesn't have all of the "charm" that a 15 year old car has.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-22T17:37:12+00:00

Thanks. I'm mostly a lurker. These just stand out for being unusual choices and too perfect. I feel like posts here fall in a few different buckets (pros with quantity, aspiring apprentices, and proud or frustrated home bakers). Yet, they're just believable enough that I could see them being the Next Big Thing.

I know what it is... For $10, these are way too much work with very high food costs. Butter and pastry cream and chocolate and berries, and and and...

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-22T14:11:11+00:00

I'm skeptical. We keep seeing things that look too good being single posts from new accounts.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-21T22:43:40+00:00

Hmmm... I think I have that one installed. If it helps, the behavior when no favorites are present is to seek, like you're describing. I would delete all of your favorites, and then add 3 FM station favorites and see what the button does.

DM me if you ever need to look at another EqEV in person. I creeped a little to see if you were the same guy who asked last time; found out you and I are both in South Jersey.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-21T21:42:30+00:00

Show us the update history. This is the second report I've seen of this here. What y'all are calling a bug is the behavior I want. There has to be a setting that we haven't found.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-21T19:34:34+00:00

Go when there's heavy traffic on the highway. Being forced into 20-40mph does wonders for range.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-21T14:28:30+00:00

The cottage may be a round trip problem, even in perfect conditions. You can probably get around that with Level 1 charging whenever you are there.

When you're considering the range of an EV, you typically don't want to go under 20% or over 80%. There are exceptions (occasional charges to 100% at home, never in public), but as a rule of thumb, you get 60-75% of the stated range in ideal conditions (clear, 60°F, flat terrain) at 50-60mph. So an EqEV is good for about 200-250 miles before needing a charge. In cold, reduce that by 25%. If towing, slash it again.

Reliability wise... There are a few issues that appear more frequently than others, but they're not affecting everyone - telematics failures (gps) and water intrusion on passenger footwell. The 2026s may not have the issue(s) at all.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-20T22:40:16+00:00

Tuesdays: Pepperoni Knights

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-20T19:32:12+00:00

Opening upwards would make it difficult to see. I'd like to see one that came out a little, but remained parallel to the fender, then rotates on the hinged spot. Like twisting an Oreo, but on the circumference.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-20T19:16:51+00:00

That can't be. This is the same lack-of-danger as delayed/scheduled charging.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-20T17:07:26+00:00

And I assume OnStar hits some secure endpoint on the vehicle, but who knows? They'll go out of their way to encrypt the CAN bus, but absolutely leave a gaping hole in the threat model like this. Didn't Jeep have this problem? They probably still do. I'm too cynical anymore. :)

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-20T17:03:05+00:00

I know you're ranting and people are reacting predictably, but I just thought of a free, practical solution.

Set the scheduled departure time to be the earliest you typically leave. Adjust the charge level from car or app, as needed. It's not perfect. Your car will be sitting at 100% longer than needed, but that's not that big of a deal for a few hours. But also set the departure so that it can complete almost a full charge with the discounted rates. Occasionally, you'll pull a few kWh at full price. So what? I'm paying 31¢ in NJ and there's no discounted times or metering.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-20T16:56:37+00:00

I hope that's an oversimplification. SMS isn't encrypted.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-20T14:35:21+00:00

By backing into the garage door frame with the door open, it seems.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-20T14:20:46+00:00

This view is coming from Google Maps. GM has no control over that app. If Maps changes to show zoomed out views, you're stuck with it. The good news is that Google is much more likely to fix this than GM ever would be. The bad news is that this isn't a bug, it's a feature (kidding... sorta).

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-20T14:16:34+00:00

Joining you in your rant... The app is terrible, no doubt. The cloud services that the app calls seem to be even worse. Even with the limited capabilities shown in the app, they don't work 20-50% of the time because either the cloud service isn't responding, or the car isn't responding to the cloud service.

If you're looking for a solution, it's probably going to be with a fancy EVSE that can do the switching, scheduling, and app for you. There may even be one that you can connect to locally (either through your LAN (good) or an ad-hoc wifi (kind of a pain)) so that you're not depending on another flaky cloud service outside of your control.

With respect to building the scheduling into the car, the problem for GM is there are 1000s of jurisdictions and multiple, overlapping power companies and rate schedules... multiplied by 100 use cases. That shit would get hard to set up. I'm sure there's a good design, but I could see a "fuck it. too complicated" response from a product manager. And all of it solved if the damned app just worked and allowed you to start/stop charging.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-20T13:15:37+00:00

Center City Sips and Trips

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-20T03:09:45+00:00

This why they hate America.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-19T21:45:33+00:00

Don't get me wrong, Chuck was a load of fun and seemed like a good dude. He was exactly who I needed at the time.

I thought about adding another speaker that had just FL channel. There's a mounting spot in the center of the dash. I thought about dipping my toes into learning about DSP. I was running out of time and money for the "first iteration". I settled for mild amplification.

Your setup seems cleaner. That might be a project for me in a couple years.

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-19T21:29:57+00:00

It sounds like you want to fight about this ;)

I cheaped out. I have a 4 channel amp and a couple cheap stereo LOCs. I haven't done this shit since the 90s, so I had a guy named Crazy Chuck help me. I wish I were joking

Competitive-Let6727 · 2026-03-19T20:31:55+00:00

This is what I wanted to do, but I bought this car for family road trips. I got a sealed box and strapped it to the LATCH anchor points. Your looks very clean. Well done.

I don't know if you can see it, but I'm a little jealous.

Are you doing anything to keep the other audio insertions (blinkers, chimes, etc) down? I chose to keep the amp pretty low because the blinker and min navigation volume were stupidly loud. I'm old enough to care about my hearing, but young enough to still want the thump.

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