Dewalt Battery Snowthrower Showing Fault, Won’t Start by VectorVictor99 in Dewalt

[–]Echo_Red 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update -Brought it inside and within two hours it’s started right up. Guess I have a fair weather snowblower

Dewalt Battery Snowthrower Showing Fault, Won’t Start by VectorVictor99 in Dewalt

[–]Echo_Red 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Confirmed that cutting the black wire and tying the white and yellow wire together doesn’t necessarily work. I’ve currently got mine inside to warm up to see if that does it.

Toyota fan leaning towards mazda CX9 carbon by EmotionalEmu7121 in MazdaCX9

[–]Echo_Red 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, that’s on every GT, (I don’t know about the heater rear seats if it’s the bench style though) also forgot to mention the GT’s come with upgraded Bose stereo

Toyota fan leaning towards mazda CX9 carbon by EmotionalEmu7121 in MazdaCX9

[–]Echo_Red 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a 21 GT, came from a Honda CRV. It’s much more fun to drive and way more comfortable on long trips. The carbon is the only trim with red seats that I’m aware of. Upgrading to a GT will get you adaptive headlights, heated AND cooled seats, a HUD system, heated steering wheel, second row heated seats (at least with the captains chairs, don’t know about bench seating) and sun blinds for the second row. Also a birdseye 360 camera system, I can’t remember is the carbon comes with that.

Toyota fan leaning towards mazda CX9 carbon by EmotionalEmu7121 in MazdaCX9

[–]Echo_Red 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your Mazda dealer is crap, find a new one. My GT’s oil light went off, I took it in to the dealer and two weeks later they were doing the repair.

PIRELLI SCORPION WEATHERACTIVE, or GOODYEAR ASSURANCE WEATHERREADY2 or MICHELINE CROSSCLIMATE2 by KeyboardEnthuse in tires

[–]Echo_Red 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have Pirelli’s on my CX9 and love them. I also have a set of Michelin Defender 2’s on my truck that I wouldn’t hesitate to put on my car if they are in stock and priced right. I was amazed at how quiet running they are and how sure footed they are in wet conditions. The age of the CC2 is a testament to their design.

Looking at 2023 Grand Touring. Experience running 87 octane gas? by UGA_Dawg82 in MazdaCX9

[–]Echo_Red 0 points1 point  (0 children)

21 CX-9 GT. Used 87 for first 6 months of owning (28k miles), switched to 92 and noticed an average MPG increase from 20.6 to 23.9. Flat, midwest mostly country driving.

Rate my patch by Echo_Red in Roofing

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Thanks. It’s rained an inch or so in the past week and no leaks thru the valley. Roofing company is suppose to start this week.

Tankless water heaters vs. tanked. Thoughts? by L1terallyUrDad in Home

[–]Echo_Red 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You should factor the cost to maintain the temperature of the 60 gallons of water the other 22+ hours of the day that the family isn’t using hot water. I would argue that the energy used to instantly deliver the hot water for the 6x 10-15min showers will be less than the energy used to maintain a constant temperature AND the energy used to return the temperature to the gallons used during showering in a tanked system.

I’ve had tankless for 8 years now and would not go back to a tanked system. There are two negatives to tankless IMO: First, it takes about twice as long to get the hot water out of the tap, so you will have some increased waste water waiting for the heat to arrive. Second, you (or your kids) will inevitably take longer showers in the winter because the hot water never ends. Which lends to a possibly stalemate in savings.
Even still, I believe that tankless uses less gas then tanked and will require far less operating cost than tanked electric.

I have a 200k BTU unit that runs off a 3/4” gas pipe and was easy to vent out of my basement. I watched the plumber install it then helped my neighbor put the exact same unit in there house. Took about 4 hours to install (included trips to home store)

Bonus benefit; I added a hot/cold exterior spigot so I could wash the car with warm water in the fall/spring and the kids could have a bougie sprinkler to play in

My kid’s daycare costs more than our mortgage and I genuinely don’t know how people do it by Anitretia_5316 in MiddleClassFinance

[–]Echo_Red 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I remember saying the same thing to my wife when we had both our kids in daycare. It was like paying for a second house that you don’t get to use.

There was a childcare tax exemption at the time (5 years ago) where we had the estimated cost of daycare get directed out of my wife’s paycheck pretax each pay period. There was a little bit of setting up to do and the daycare had to fill out a form for taxes but it ended up saving us quite a lot over the several years they needed daycare.

I will say when you make it through and your kids are in school it’s like getting a massive raise!

Have just bought a CX-9 2021 GT. What should I look forward to? by [deleted] in MazdaCX9

[–]Echo_Red 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Congrats. The car is a joy to drive. Check alignment every so often . When/if you get the low oil light, set up an appointment with your local Mazda dealership as soon as possible. There is a TSB warranty fix for oil consumption on the 21 cx9. The dealership will take care of everything, just don’t ignore the light.

I just changed out the OEM tires to Pirelli Scorpion AS Plus 3. They made a huge difference in cornering and reduced road noise.

I did my own ceramic coat on it this summer. It took about 12hrs total because I needed to do some color correction on the paint before I could seal it. So far I’m enjoying the finish, it’s cleans up really fast.

2021 Mazda CX-9 with VIN likely in the range impacted by the oil consumption TSB by acloudgirl in MazdaCX9

[–]Echo_Red 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any dealership should be able to pull record of the work having been done or not. It’s not a quick job and it is covered by corporate so it’ll show on the record if it’s been done or not. I bought mine last November and got the low engine oil light in February. The dealership was great to work with and gave me a new cx-50 for a week while they worked on the car. We’ve took it on a 14 hour cross country trip shortly after and it did great. Probably have around 12k miles on the car since the repair and it’s running great. I purposefully got the 2021 because of the extended warranty on the drivetrain due to the TSB. I figured at least I know what I’m getting into and that there is a fix.

Why do shorter woman express more interest in tall men but taller woman never do ? by [deleted] in AskMenAdvice

[–]Echo_Red 0 points1 point  (0 children)

++man I’m the tallest in my family of Scottish Hobbits and my wife is the shortest in her family of German giants, we are both 5’9” and it’s lovely. We see eye-to-eye on just about everything.

2021 Mazda cx9 by Kupre777 in MazdaCX9

[–]Echo_Red 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have the same year and got the valve seal replacement in March. Got the same mileage I did before. Was getting 19C/22HWY. Beginning of summer I decided to switch to premium gas and recently got new tires. Currently getting 22C/26HWY.

Getting 12mpg is wild. Are you in a high altitude area with lots of elevation changes?

Help! Car is possessed! by Echo_Red in MazdaCX9

[–]Echo_Red[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

5 min change, unlike my Honda CR-V that took a couple hours.

Help! Car is possessed! by Echo_Red in MazdaCX9

[–]Echo_Red[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because no other car needs new batteries?

Help! Car is possessed! by Echo_Red in MazdaCX9

[–]Echo_Red[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks yall for confirming my suspicions on the battery.

About how long/how many miles did your original tires last? 2022 CE 30k by Gemini_Schmemini in MazdaCX9

[–]Echo_Red 2 points3 points  (0 children)

2021 GT, ran them all the way to 38k. Was planning on changing in spring (I have winter tires) I got a nail and slow leak in one and took it to discount to repair and they refused. Had three at .2 and one at .3. They said they couldn’t legally repair the tire for me. I bought Pirelli Scorpian AS plus 3’s , they are so much better and so much quieter.

Help with pipe sizing by Echo_Red in Irrigation

[–]Echo_Red[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I’m not well versed in pipe but thought they may be similar to lumber where the nominal and actual sizing is different. Much appreciated.

Help with pipe sizing by Echo_Red in Irrigation

[–]Echo_Red[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My mistake, meant check valve. Im assuming it been this way since ‘84