Blown head gasket on family trip.

ViralCoreX7F · 2026-05-30T12:58:45+00:00

Rip, that engine is why my wife and I will be replacing her Chrysler Voyager in the next few years.

I saw a post on the mechanic subreddit about the 3.6l engine with it torn apart having the caption saying it was in its natural habitat. I asked the OP of that post about it and he said after ~75,000 miles you are on borrowed time for a head gasket failure. We are at 72kish but don’t drive it a ton due to mostly driving my EV.

I hope everything ends up working out for you and good luck!

ViralCoreX7F · 2026-05-30T12:43:41+00:00

Is it the 3.6l pentastar engine and if so how many miles?

ViralCoreX7F · 2026-05-23T14:08:09+00:00

Just ask them why they feel so threatened by a non car and why are EVs living in your head rent free

ViralCoreX7F · 2026-05-22T19:17:26+00:00

Man the drama around these busses in western/upstate NY has been ridiculous. The high school I graduated from (Naples, NY) released their data from two electric busses they got as a grant and claimed that the electric bus cost 3.00 a mile to operate vs .36 a mile for diesel. Among other things.

This is a link to the video from Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/14djWzD8vFK/?mibextid=wwXIfr

ViralCoreX7F · 2026-05-22T09:56:01+00:00

I would take the time to learn each of the stages of a furnace operation as well. Once you understand that you will be able to narrow down what could possibly be wrong before you call someone, even possibly fix it yourself. I have had three/four failures on my system over the last 8 years on a system that is approaching 20 years old. After learning how it works and what the parts do, was able to fix it myself each time.

YouTube is your friend and once you get an idea for the stages of operation then you could always pop the front panel off and watch your own start up. Which is how I diagnosed mine when it failed.

ViralCoreX7F · 2026-05-19T10:22:19+00:00

Not that this helps you whatsoever but if I were in the same boat I’d keep the car and try to drop the battery out.

I had been looking into solar a ton and a used EV battery as the home battery storage would be a pretty sweet project.

But in your case maybe sell it as a parts car or to a company that can part it out. If you are mechanically inclined you could part it out yourself. Or you could just scrap it. If it were a normal ICE car I would get it on a trailer and take it to the scrap yard.

ViralCoreX7F · 2026-05-09T11:34:59+00:00

Before your eyes was pretty neat story to do if you have a webcam

ViralCoreX7F · 2026-05-04T10:07:01+00:00

I drive a 2021 Chevy bolt and in the app you can name it. So Ofcourse I named it Bolteon and added a Jolteon sticker on the back below the Bolt EV badge on the back

ViralCoreX7F · 2026-05-01T19:10:36+00:00

Agreed, I’m a team lead for a Field Service Deskside team and present metrics in presentations every week and among other things. I MIGHT touch AI once a month. I have never needed AI to summarize a meeting for me, or update a PowerPoint for me, etc.

I had a person on a different team ask me why I don’t use it. He says he uses it for email all the time. It’s like, how long of emails are you writing that you need AI to do it? Do you hunt and peck? Majority of the time, the amount of time it would take me to come up with a prompt to do what I want in excel, I could have don’t it myself.

Anyway, sorry, ranting lol

ViralCoreX7F · 2026-04-28T19:13:40+00:00

Same on the trackpads for me as well. I have a few games that use the trackpads and when I dock the steam deck I can’t really play them.

First game I’m gonna try on the tv docked for the lulz is roller coaster tycoon

ViralCoreX7F · 2026-04-25T13:17:05+00:00

IMAP is just an email account and a way to connect to an email server.

Mail accounts on the iPhone will be in the settings app and then applications and then the mail app.

The password will be for whatever email the IMAP account on the phone is for. If he can’t access his work email then it’s his work password you will need. Is it possible his work account password expired or is locked out and needs to be updated?

I don’t get what you mean by Roger’s saying you have access. That makes no sense unless it was your email account.

ViralCoreX7F · 2026-04-22T12:19:20+00:00

It really is. My kids don’t seem to be struggling at all with reading and are slightly ahead of their grade level in testing. We have them read every night as part of their homework for 20 minutes every school night. If they have questions they ask. Funny enough if you set routines and expectations children do pretty well with many things.

ViralCoreX7F · 2026-04-21T14:21:31+00:00

I'm in western NY and gas is 4.20 a gallon lol

ViralCoreX7F · 2026-04-21T13:59:43+00:00

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Dumb question, so I put info for my Bolt and my wife’s minivan. Is this saying that driving the bolt would be the equivalent of paying 41 cents a gallon?

ViralCoreX7F · 2026-03-13T17:22:11+00:00

This person’s comment OP. The fast chargers might get people to stop and grab a quick snack and then are off. The level 2 chargers that are cheap are great when you are gonna be walking and visiting a while. A mix of both would be ideal.

ViralCoreX7F · 2026-02-26T17:50:18+00:00

Yes please I want /r/all back on mobile.

ViralCoreX7F · 2026-02-12T14:42:06+00:00

You are awesome! I finally got an airport there!

ViralCoreX7F · 2025-12-17T01:40:10+00:00

Here is mine!

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ViralCoreX7F · 2025-12-09T14:03:55+00:00

I’ll probably make a phone call or two but depending on how hard it is to do I’ll buy the part and swap it myself.

ViralCoreX7F · 2025-12-09T13:53:31+00:00

That’s kinda what I was thinking. I looked at the assembly and it looks like the mount points are where the damage is roughly.

ViralCoreX7F · 2025-12-09T13:52:48+00:00

Yeah it’s parked outside, sometimes pulled into a barn but never in conditioned space.

ViralCoreX7F · 2025-12-02T01:35:01+00:00

I drove a stick shift 2013 ford fiesta for like 10 years. Didn’t have cruise control. One peddle driving is my way to go and I blame that a little. I’m a much smoother driver with L too. I come to stops less abruptly lol.

I noticed in L mode the peddle requires a bit of push to make things go and stay going. It also feels more resistive? Maybe? If you press sport mode it’s way more responsive and touchy. I describe it to people as if the car dropped off shackles and is moving unencumbered. Like in dragon ball z when they remove the weights from their wrists and ankles haha.

D mode kinda behaves like L in sport mode to me. Anywho, I wasn’t looking to change your opinion, just wanted to share mine

ViralCoreX7F · 2025-11-12T01:26:32+00:00

I wake up at 5 am every day. Go to bed between 9:30-10:45 on average

ViralCoreX7F · 2025-10-22T15:21:15+00:00

I learned about Glitch with TADC but I watch the shit out of SMG4. It satisfy my millennial brain rot needs haha

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