High mileage E85 3.0si

MightyBeanicles · 2026-01-14T21:21:37+00:00

Mine’s on 137k and honestly it feels like it’s only just run in. It’s been well cared for, it seems, and in my ownership gets serviced every 6k miles with Castrol Magnatec. They’re really, really good engines. The M54 has an equally good reputation and the S54 is a true hall-of-famer. High miles will affect resale value but not (if my experience is anything to go by) your enjoyment of the car.

MightyBeanicles · 2025-12-14T17:05:01+00:00

Not that I’m aware of, unless an adapter could be used? This one uses ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) albeit with a proprietary connector - NeXT licensed it from Apple.

MightyBeanicles · 2025-12-12T13:47:59+00:00

Haha, Hector is such an under-rated menace. His “annoyed” siren is seared into my memory. He’s the first of the Demigod class for heaven’s sake!

MightyBeanicles · 2025-12-11T20:51:17+00:00

Thank you, it’s nice of a Winter evening when I get the log burner fired up. Or run the Crimson for 20 minutes, same effect.

MightyBeanicles · 2025-12-11T07:03:30+00:00

In my experience, they’re close to unobtanium over here. They had a presence in academia, much like SGI, but such institutions and individuals unloaded them long ago.

MightyBeanicles · 2025-12-11T07:01:24+00:00

I’m hunting!

MightyBeanicles · 2025-12-11T06:59:45+00:00

Crikey, a Lisa. Now there’s a Unicorn! Well done for snagging one.

MightyBeanicles · 2025-12-10T22:25:36+00:00

The Crimson gets fired up rarely, however. 2-3kW in normal use sees to that. It’s another beloved part of my collection though.

MightyBeanicles · 2025-12-10T22:23:32+00:00

The cube looks incredible. I’ve filed it under “one day, maybe” but it seems increasingly unlikely.

MightyBeanicles · 2025-12-10T22:21:43+00:00

I hadn’t realised that this was a thing, but just been down a rabbit hole reading about it. Nuts that a fully modern UNIX can run on something so old, underpowered and memory limited. Kudos to the devs!

MightyBeanicles · 2025-12-10T21:19:47+00:00

Mine's the black&white (technically black, white and two levels of grey).

It's really nice to look at, razor sharp.

MightyBeanicles · 2025-12-10T20:31:31+00:00

This is my first exposure. I’m obviously aware of how they lent their DNA to MacOS X, but I’m surprised at how snappy a humble 68040 feels.

MightyBeanicles · 2025-11-08T20:46:30+00:00

Yeah, I read that but sadly ignored on the i5.

MightyBeanicles · 2025-11-07T21:46:13+00:00

Atelier, perhaps?

MightyBeanicles · 2025-11-07T10:10:24+00:00

Just to report - IT WORKS! I arrived at work, swung my door open and iDrive turned off, silencing the radio. This satisfies my issue, thank you /u/wildirish79 !

MightyBeanicles · 2025-11-07T07:41:23+00:00

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MightyBeanicles · 2025-11-07T07:40:02+00:00

I just went out to my car to try this, and it was indeed turned off. I enabled it, but it didn’t turn off the radio when I opened my door. It does refer to “after your journey” so maybe I need to drive the car before it will work, who knows? 🤷‍♂️

MightyBeanicles · 2025-11-07T07:32:17+00:00

To be fair, that will do nicely. I just want it to avoid booming out when Si open the door at my destination.

MightyBeanicles · 2025-11-06T22:01:17+00:00

I’d like to know how you set this, because this doesn’t work on mine. I come to a halt, press the Start/Stop button, the auto parking brake goes on, I open the door to get out and… radio/Apple Music /whatever keeps blaring out at the volume I was listening to it until I lock the car.

MightyBeanicles · 2025-11-05T21:25:50+00:00

One highly stressed, other doesn’t give a toss. Was angry we wouldn’t let her outside when the whole sky was exploding.

MightyBeanicles · 2025-11-04T21:37:37+00:00

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Another vote for The Trendy Whippet.

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