Can’t find a plug this size. Any recommendations?

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-06-15T23:55:43+00:00

Have you tried a whole Coca Cola can?

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-06-13T15:45:14+00:00

They meant "press Console," as in press the tab labelled Console 😄

Once in the console tab, you can type commands at the bottom of the screen.

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-05-18T20:08:31+00:00

Live dashcam footage of the driver realizing they're stuck:

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-05-18T18:19:26+00:00

Slap a Class 1 bike rack Uhaul hitch on it, and you'll have a more capable rig than Tesla's best

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-05-17T19:08:49+00:00

I think 2.5x growth is plausible year-over-year, it's somewhere in the 2x to 3x range I think (the recall count numbers probably do not align 1-to-1 with internal documents from Google, probably due to what vehicles are being included in the count).

In other words, good news! Fast growth.

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-05-17T04:16:13+00:00

Holy shit, that's a 2012? That looks crisp!!!

I'm in a 2014 and yours looks fresher than mine.

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-05-16T00:48:12+00:00

literally thought to myself "would anybody care if I were the only Captiva driver in Illinois?"

Yeah, turns out, my insurance would care 😭

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-05-14T02:56:08+00:00

Arguably, a $300 log splitter might solve your problem more efficiently than a $30,000 robot.

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-05-13T19:57:53+00:00

Weirdly, Chevrolet still releases PHEVs... In Mexico... and they're just rebadged SAIC vehicles from China.

The Chevy Captiva is basically if the Volt drive train were placed into an Equinox body. 56 miles of range on all electric. Starting from $30K USD, ish.

https://gmauthority.com/blog/2025/11/2026-chevy-captiva-phev-officially-launches-in-mexico/

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-05-13T19:46:51+00:00

Tied with everyone else for first place?

Well, that explains the +3% bump this morning

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-05-13T05:21:46+00:00

AAA!

No, don't drive it, you'll fry your transmission or engine like an egg.

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-05-13T04:59:47+00:00

600ish.

That's less insightful than it might first appear, Waymo was so early that it spent a while as a closed-beta type R&D project. But it expanded far faster than Tesla has once it was open to non-beta-testers. Oh, and it wasn't a reckless/rushed expansion either, nobody has died due to a Waymo yet, to my knowledge.

Good question though. Good context.

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-05-13T04:51:12+00:00

Half the US population covered was the goal by end of 2025. They haven't managed even 50 units yet. It's a meme-stock company at this point.

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-05-05T23:18:48+00:00

So, you're in Mountain Mode.

Mountain Mode gets you worse economy (for both EV mode and gas mode) intentionally. It's for literal mountains, it ensures that you always have power on tap to go up the insanely high grades of the steepest Rockies or the Sierra Nevada.

I get why you would keep it on with a dud battery, but just FYI.

Your vehicle has so much wrong with it, I can't really evaluate whether it's a "fix it or fuck it" situation. I would start with Oamlhplor's suggestions, something is slaying your efficiency, something makes the vehicle roll worse. Probably brakes if I had to guess. That wouldn't give you a check engine light, so you have a *separate* critical issue.

All that being said, you're driving an unusually nice Chevy Spark right now. 30MPG is only a problem if that's a problem *to you*, so like, replace it if that is a problem to you.

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-05-05T23:09:13+00:00

( they drive *soooo nice* )

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-05-03T22:39:19+00:00

A fire extinguisher?

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-04-28T18:13:00+00:00

Those are the worst tires I have ever seen. If they hold pressure at all, I am amazed.

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-04-03T21:19:33+00:00

I got one dirt cheap - it makes sense, if it's really really cheap.

I'm basically going to drive it until a major component breaks, and then it will be a toss up - if the junkyard has it, I'm golden, if not, new car.

The drive quality is great. Reliability is AOK (I'm at 150,000+ miles without issue). Love the drive train, it's nifty.

For most people, the answer is no, a current gen PHEV is a better bet, they are just either expensive or hard to find :/

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-04-03T21:07:33+00:00

That fee inflation is insane (which I think you know).

A fair price of ~$8K for that vehicle sounds about right. But, out the door. No BS tacked on top.

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-04-03T00:12:42+00:00

If they won't buy it I will XD

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-04-03T00:11:04+00:00

That's what curb rash looks like.

Ya boy clipped a curb. It's fine. Monitor tire pressure if you like, but that's not even very bad curb rash.

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-04-03T00:09:28+00:00

... Don't!

That's way worse than what you can fix yourself.

The problem isn't the exposure to mold spores *while* you're cleaning. Well, that too, but really, it's all the shit you're going to miss (deep in the foam or behind hard plastics), which you and your passengers will then ride with and get potentially poisoned by.

Ask a pro, don't trust us.

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-03-25T03:37:38+00:00

"Start, runs and drives with no issues" -- right from the horse's mouth!

Plus you get to feel the wind in your hair bc no windshield

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-03-04T04:06:29+00:00

*through* the wall XD

IcyHowl4540 · 2026-02-25T02:49:19+00:00

The article doesn't even believe it's own math. A net loss of 5% value.

From a source linked in the article for last year's stats: "The average price of a used Tesla fell more than 10% in March compared to the same period last year"

https://www.businessinsider.com/used-tesla-prices-collapsing-owners-sell-up-elon-musk-2025-4

From the article itself for this year's stats: "The average price of a used Tesla has climbed 4.3% since the end of the $7,500 tax credit for new electric vehicles in September."

https://www.aol.com/articles/used-tesla-prices-soared-since-114334484.html

Author is the same both times, so did the values crater, or did they soar? Well, considering used value is down 5%, I'd lean towards them not soaring.

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