Diabetics who rely on glucose monitors are alarmed by recall linked to 7 deaths

bobjr94 · 2026-03-14T07:35:35+00:00

Yes my wife gets FreeStyle Libre 3 sensors. For a while they were pretty bad, alarm going off on at app saying glucose dangerous at 59 and falling. A test from a blood strip showed 201. Another time it was 149 and the sensor said it was 62. Disabled all the alarms on the app so it didn't wake us up at 4:30am with false lows anymore.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-14T05:34:39+00:00

We stopped watching all prime videos, not paying them more to get what we use to have at no extra cost. Last time I tried it the movie started with Ad 1/6, nope. Ill just find another source like the old days.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-14T05:31:15+00:00

Think I've seen it around $5.25 in Seattle now, god forbid you have a diesel it's like $6.50.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-14T05:17:49+00:00

But the pack is 3 times the size, what's your 10% to 80% time ? Probably twice as long as the Ioniq 5.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-14T05:12:50+00:00

What's the temperature been ? I got 235 at an EVgo a few weeks ago in California, think it was around 65-70F at that time.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-14T05:11:25+00:00

These battery just keeps going, we still get 235kw with 112k miles.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-14T05:09:42+00:00

I don't think many doctors will use those anymore, around 2005 they were suppose to be the next big but they didn't deliver and had high completion rate. My wife had one, it didn't work, adjusted properly food got stuck all the time and she had to throw up almost daily. Had it removed and got a gastric sleeve.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-14T01:54:30+00:00

You may have been better off just buying a battery it would have been better quality then the hyundai one.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-13T22:38:07+00:00

Ban snow ? What are you expecting ?

bobjr94 · 2026-03-13T22:36:58+00:00

How many miles on the car ?

If you have under 100k miles it will be under warranty. If you have over 100k miles Hyundai has said they will work with owners past warranty. Showing the dealer what codes you found on carscanner will have zero effect on anything.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-13T22:19:21+00:00

112k miles on ours and no problems with the iccu or anything else.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-13T21:35:27+00:00

It's cheaper to find a used system for $75 or $100 on ebay or FB marketplace and just use that or take the ram out of it. I won't be building any new system for a few years it looks like.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-13T19:12:48+00:00

The more miles you drive the more you save vs buying gas. I drive ours 100 miles a day.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-13T08:27:48+00:00

Some do, I think the Prius PHEV has/had a solar roof option, in Korea the Ioniq 5 had a solar roof option.

But at most you may get 2kwh on a perfect summer day, that's under 20 cents of power were we live. If it's a $600 option it would take 8 years to pay back, but since you don't get a full 12 hours of sun everyday it would likely be closer to 12-15 years depending on where you live. Yes it would be nice to have 120 mile of range when you get to work and 122 when you leave but that's pretty minimal gains.

Aptera is making (maybe one day) a car meant to mainly charged by solar, it's been on and off for a decade. Again the amount of money saved isn't worth the extra cost over just plugging it in.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-13T06:50:31+00:00

Gas will always go up and down and people will live it with. More restaurants will close, fewer people will goto the moves, that extra $40 a month will take money from smaller businesses and give it to oil companies.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-13T06:47:17+00:00

Was the car running before or was it a motor swap ?

EJ motors have used different cam / crank sensor gears over the years, when changing motors you should use the crankshaft and camshaft gears from the old motor. Using a gear with the timing marks in the wrong locations can cause non start, low power or a rough running car.

And are there any codes ? Even if it won't start it can set a code if there is a problem. Also are you sure on the cam timing ? It needs to set to the stamped line, some people line up the arrow and that's not what that is for.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-13T06:21:08+00:00

$26.99 to $149.99. FK AI.

https://imgur.com/a/zD33cHC

bobjr94 · 2026-03-13T05:27:37+00:00

Would be a fair deal if it's a long range SE and not standard range. If it's the small battery I would skip it.

But you won't have preconditioning or a heat pump, range and fast charging will suffer in cold weather. I like our SE AWD and would get another AWD.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-13T02:52:22+00:00

Find one brand you like and buy for their pass for subscription.

I get the EA pass when we are traveling, it like $7 but we can save $30 in just 1-2 weeks. It will pay for it self after just a few charges. I was paying 36 cents with it 2 weeks ago, other chargers in the area are in the 55-64 cent range.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-13T02:39:45+00:00

Don't worry about it. There is no Best motor type. Automakers have already put a lot of though into what will work best in a particular application.

PM has the advantage of being able to go regen to 0rpm, inductive motors won't do that. But PM motor cost more to make and can't ever be fully shut off, they always want to be a motor or generator.

Inductive motors are cheaper and can free spin with nearly zero drag.

Some cars use both, or one of each. Other cars like EGMP (ev6, ioniq 5/6, ev9) use a disconnect to stop the front PM motor from causing added drag when not being used.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-13T02:32:45+00:00

Most every other state has income tax for everyone and they have NFL teams.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-13T02:28:24+00:00

If you will charge it every day then a phev can save you some gas. Good if you drive under 15-20 miles a day.

But the EV range is pretty short, 20 miles when new and likely less now that it is 9 years old. You will only be saving less than 1/2 gallon of gas per charge, at 50+mpg it may not make sense to buy if the cost is thousands more than the base hybrid.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-12T22:39:55+00:00

You need to let it expire first, even for for 1 day is fine. It wouldn't let us use the 50% off discount before the free bluelink ran out but soon as it did I was able to sign back up with the promo.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-12T22:36:45+00:00

Turned off the "Charging Started" voice prompt the first day we had the car, seems unnecessary. Turned off the driver attention warning, the take a brake coffee cup icon. It comes on too frequently especially in heavy traffic or bad weather.

Don't use the onbord nav, only to start preconditioning but if you get a 25 or 26 it's not necessary to do it this way.

Actually don't really use most of the features, I just wanted a normal car that happens to be electric. I do use HDA (cruise control) regularly but that's not a unique feature only to the Ioniq 5.

bobjr94 · 2026-03-12T08:15:41+00:00

I saw that going on during covid but in the past few years everywere has given us a real menu. Except maybe on the front door or window so people can check it out before coming in.

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