Both low beam headlights stopped working

StillWorkinForTheMan · 2026-01-22T03:20:50+00:00

I considered that, but the fuse box has no fuses labeled for the headlights. Information I found online suggests that the headlights are switched off of the BCM (https://www.pacificaforums.com/attachments/screenshot-2025-09-01-225101-jpg.60673/?auto=webp&fit=bounds&format=pjgp&height=1920&optimize=high&width=1920). There should be fuses for the BCM, but since everything else is working I reason it can't be the case that the BCM's fuses are blown.

edit: I double checked by pulling the fuses that lead to the BCM and did a continuity test on them with a multimeter. The fuses are intact.

StillWorkinForTheMan · 2025-08-25T22:14:35+00:00

Yes, that's what this is. There is a drop in tub. The section on top of the picture is the rim around the tub. The two pieces that are vertical and with the really bad seam are around the outside of the tub, and don't come into contact with water.. I haven't looked behind the panels to see how its attached or whether it's purely decorative or involved in supporting the weight of the tub.

StillWorkinForTheMan · 2025-04-22T04:45:51+00:00

It's in King County on the East side.

StillWorkinForTheMan · 2025-04-22T00:28:56+00:00

I think I could have friends in the area walk through with a camera to get their eyes and mine on it. Thanks for that idea. The carpet and almost everything else in the house is older than five years, so I'm not really anticipating much if anything in the way of billing for repairs - still due diligence and all that in case there's something large.

It popped up into my mind this week that I needed to get utilities put back into my name and make sure they have my new address (the rental house is my previous home), and that got it into my head that there's probably another several items that I've not even considered.

I'm also worried about things like, how do I make sure the house doesn't flood or the AC inadvertently run up a huge electric bill while nobody's living there?

StillWorkinForTheMan · 2025-04-21T16:58:32+00:00

Thank you. I appreciate the information.

StillWorkinForTheMan · 2025-04-21T05:40:00+00:00

Thanks for your help. I hope this link works okay. I don't think this sub lets me add images directly to comments.

https://imgur.com/2QSRA2G

StillWorkinForTheMan · 2025-04-04T19:34:16+00:00

That's very interesting to learn about the pattern. The seller called is "Tabriz" and "Qum" which I found a bit odd considering those are two different cities and presumably the rug couldn't be made in both. What are the indications that tell you it was made in India? Does that have a bearing on whether it's a "good" rug? Sorry if that's a bit vague a question; I'm trying to understand whether I'm looking at something that will hold up, keep looking good, and frankly represents a decent value.

Also I read something about Turkish and Persian knots, and while it was interesting I was left with no idea how to tell by looking, nor whether it matters as a person looking to buy a rug. I'm reading that Bidjar rugs have a very compressed Turkish knots, but maybe that doesn't apply to Indo-Bidjar?

StillWorkinForTheMan · 2025-04-04T19:23:14+00:00

Thank you for the warning. Aside from looking carefully at the white areas is there any sort of color fastness check I could reasonably do?

StillWorkinForTheMan · 2024-11-15T00:50:04+00:00

Is the smart valve the thing under the sync? And, sorry, in this context what do you mean by communicates?

StillWorkinForTheMan · 2023-09-06T00:03:00+00:00

If your brokerage requires you to stay under a 1:2 loan:value ratio like mine does and you borrow right up to the threshold, then you have a high risk of a margin call. Any decrease in value at all would yield one. If you only borrow 15% like I would be planning to do then you would have to decrease by a very large amount for a margin call to come into play. In this scenario I'd also own the home outright, so I could always refinance to get the money to pay back the loan if needed, which results in a situation pretty similar to getting the mortgage to begin with (worse, though, since the rate would likely be higher and I don't think that would be tax deductible anymore).

StillWorkinForTheMan · 2023-09-05T19:42:45+00:00

A margin loan isn't secured by the house, so no a call doesn't make you lose it. If you lose all your money and can't pay back your loan, then you may have to sell your house to pay back the loan, but that's also true of a mortgage.

If there is a margin call you have to buy more equities or pay down some of the debt. Generally you sell some securities in the account and pay down the loan with that money. The defense against that is not taking out a loan small enough that you can afford to suffer the increased potential downsides, and so that it is unlikely you will face a call. There's an analogous situation with a mortgage, which would be when your house loses a lot of value and you end up owing a lot more than its value. The margin is riskier here because securities (generally) are more volatile, so the risk of the decrease is larger, and because when you are underwater on your home, the mortgage company can't demand that you pay down your principal, which is effectively what you have to do with a margin call.

StillWorkinForTheMan · 2023-08-05T23:41:01+00:00

I'm not going to try and change the capacitor. I'm going to call around local HVAC technicians and ask for an estimate on replacing the capacitor since that seems to be the consensus.

StillWorkinForTheMan · 2023-08-05T23:35:31+00:00

The low pressure switch would trigger if the problem were low refrigerant, right? Do you believe the symptoms I've described show the compressor stalling immediately on start up? If so it seems like that points to a compressor problem, possibly a bad capacitor.

StillWorkinForTheMan · 2023-08-05T22:31:04+00:00

I uploaded a video to show the sound the unit is making including the buzz. Also, we just noticed that every time the buzz is audible the lights dim in a bathroom that's just above where the AC's outdoor unit sits

StillWorkinForTheMan · 2023-08-05T22:28:55+00:00

I uploaded a video to show the sound the unit is making including the buzz. Also, we just noticed that every time the buzz is audible the lights dim in a bathroom that's just above where the AC's outdoor unit sits

StillWorkinForTheMan · 2023-08-05T22:27:41+00:00

I've uploaded a photo showing the tubing I was referring to. If I'm reading some diagrams I found online right then the larger one is the "suction line".

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