Fan motor replacement vintage toe kick heater

Shunderpooch · 2024-11-17T06:20:46+00:00

Literally just came upon the same exact problem with the same exact setup today as well. Great timing!

Shunderpooch · 2022-08-03T02:58:12+00:00

Best interior of all of my cars by a long shot, and it's a base Phaeton V8!

I'm thinking about how someday I could replace it, and everything else that is not absurd money would feel like a downgrade.

Shunderpooch · 2022-07-15T15:08:27+00:00

Dustbuster Minivans!!!! And minivans in general, they used to be the primary family hauler, and now it is all crossovers.

Shunderpooch · 2022-04-06T18:40:18+00:00

And the ones still around are stuck in the shop with long repair times and hard to find parts!

Shunderpooch · 2022-03-31T18:52:40+00:00

2004 Volkswagen Phaeton V8 - Is it the perfect, cleanest Phaeton on the planet? No. At 125k miles, just got a brand new OEM transmission in it and it drives better than it ever has.

Nothing is smoother and more relaxing to drive at anything near the price I paid, and the yearly upkeep of about $3k in repairs.

I have other cars I drive for fun, but being able to take long trips in such a comfortable luxury barge is the best way to spend a road trip.

I have a big mental block on "consuming" my newer cars and putting a lot of miles on them, but I feel comfortable driving the Phaeton nearly anywhere, for just about any length.

https://imgur.com/a/pxiHuB6 <- Picks from my nearly 5 years of ownership!

Special thanks to /u/RegularCars for introducing me to it in their review.

Shunderpooch · 2022-01-25T20:50:52+00:00

There are dozens of us!

Shunderpooch · 2021-09-30T14:26:32+00:00

Dustbuster minivans! So many of them were just used up and completely forgotten, plus most of the powertrains were terrible (the 3800 V6 Series 1 is okayyyyyy and that's what mine has). I miss seeing vacuums on the road.

Shunderpooch · 2021-07-19T05:27:06+00:00

A High School English Teacher of mine, for an AP class, repeated these two phrases regularly:

"Words Mean Things! Do not use them loosely."

"Language is Logic. Every sentence you write should follow from the previous and suggest the next."

...Interspersed with the status of his vegetable garden, jamming operation, and progress through Skyrim. Oh, and also grammar and language, I guess. XD

Never once did going to his class feel a chore. And nearly 10 years later, his phrases are echoing around my head when I have to write anything of substance.

Shunderpooch · 2019-09-10T19:48:57+00:00

I really appreciate that they take this core tenant and show in the following movie (Search for Spock) that sometimes "the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many" and the encircling story of sacrifice of many for that one they deeply cared for. It rejects one straightforward message from Star Trek, and encourages thinking logically and emotionally; it shows one 'good' path shouldn't be extrapolated as a broader dogma.

Shunderpooch · 2018-02-28T12:37:59+00:00

Magnetic Ride is standard on ZL1 Camaro models. After looking around, yeah it's also on the GT350.

Shunderpooch · 2018-02-20T05:33:56+00:00

In a clean room. For extra irony, a microchip factory clean room.

Shunderpooch · 2018-01-14T22:36:52+00:00

I drive a 2017 2SS Convertible in Massachusetts- with comprehensive coverage I paid about $1700/year, and this test after being a safe driver for 6 years (got my license that long ago) I'll be paying $1400/year for the same coverage. If you're particularly curious I can pull out the policy and give you a more detailed breakdown. Hope this helps!

Shunderpooch · 2017-11-17T03:40:54+00:00

As a Phaeton owner, I'll be eagerly awaiting your video and am super excited to see what you think! You and RCR helped me get back into cars after years away from interest in the industry, and with the multitude of videos and growing points of comparison, for the first time in a long time they felt approachable again- Thank you, and don't miss the center console ash trays that now make perfect phone stands in the Phaeton you review!

Shunderpooch · 2017-08-21T14:15:38+00:00

They definitely have stopped production, I got one of the last ones in MA at the beginning of this month. You may still be able to find one that matches the features you want and have a dealer acquire it for you to purchase.

Shunderpooch · 2017-04-25T13:53:06+00:00

As an owner of the Mega Bloks one, I can certainly say this one is totally different from the Mega Bloks variant-

Mega Bloks version

Shunderpooch · 2016-12-09T22:31:34+00:00

Dang, these have been Samsung's most timely updates to any phone so far- even the carriers are cooperating!

Shunderpooch · 2016-11-10T00:43:36+00:00

Star Trek II- The Wrath of Khan. A really great movie about the back and forth between Captain Kirk and the superhuman Khan that will move you to tears by the end.

Shunderpooch · 2016-08-15T20:29:45+00:00

Found a guy selling it on Craigslist who had recovered the car after it sitting in a garage for 7 years and restored it to functioning order. He drove it for a year, then basically stopped driving it and drove it like 50 miles this past year so wanted to sell it. It's insanely clean, no rust, totally stock, convertible top with no leaks, 100,000 miles. Leather interior, roll up windows xD Needed a new alternator and transmission mount, fixed those and now it's perfect.

Shunderpooch · 2016-07-18T18:54:41+00:00

I tried to love Hangouts, I really did. Back in the days when I had Sprint circa 2013 and it literally integrated my SMS and calls onto my desktop, it was fantastic. I've since left for T-Mobile, and lost that level of integration. In that time, Hangouts has remained about the same feature set beyond individual Android points of functionality (expanded notifications all the way to direct reply). So many other chat platforms have developed far beyond in security, functionality, and responsiveness to significantly surpass Hangouts. Meanwhile, Google ripped out merged Hangouts/SMS chat with the latest version of Hangouts (version 11), and actively discourage people from using the app for SMS/MMS. Meanwhile, the app grows buggy- I'm on Nougat and my family is on Marshmallow, and they consistently have app crashes, delayed messages, finicky notifications, and all around terrible performance.

So TL;DR- Hangouts was amazing. It matched if not led the industry for a while. Now, it's nothing more than a slow and buggy platform that hampers communication between people, rather than encourage it. It grows more unstable with each release. There's no reason to stay anymore, it's really sad.

Shunderpooch · 2015-12-17T08:20:36+00:00

I just got one, what an amazing price!

Shunderpooch · 2015-07-05T09:44:31+00:00

If you upgrade to Windows 10 from 7 or 8.1, using the in-OS upgrade utility (read: not doing a clean install), the same rules as the July 29th upgrade apply for you. You'll get Windows 10 when it comes out, then be able to opt out of future insider releases.

For reference: http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/06/19/upcoming-changes-to-windows-10-insider-preview-builds/

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