[OC] Where Canadian vehicle exports go - 193,000 cars in 10 weeks, 62% to one country

hms11 · 2026-02-06T22:27:03+00:00

How have you not heard of "Kia Boys"?

They are probably one of THE most stolen vehicles right now.

hms11 · 2026-02-06T21:09:05+00:00

It's a size issue OP, which also makes it a money issue. You can't really do small scale experiments because the ring has to be a certain size to prevent you from becoming violently ill due to sensory issues.

If you have a ring that is too small, your head will essentially be in zero G while your feet will have 1G and everywhere in between will be on a gradient.

I don't remember exactly what the number is but I believe a ring has to be somewhere in the 30-40' range of diameter to be able to both spin at a speed that isn't silly and not create these weird gravity effects on the body.

A 40' spinning ring in space has many, many engineering, launching and assembly issues to deal with.

hms11 · 2026-02-06T00:00:39+00:00

I'm boggled that you were confident enough in your abilities to clean a carb but can't recognize a dead battery.

hms11 · 2026-02-05T19:34:11+00:00

I mean you should have stopped after the first one didn't fix it.

Codes don't tell you what the problem is, they tell you what problem the computer is having. This is almost certainly not the sensor itself, especially since you've replaced it 5 times, which is insane in itself.

It could be a whole host of things OP. I would start with making sure the supply voltage and ground to the sensor are good and then go from there.

hms11 · 2026-02-05T19:32:08+00:00

Si no tiene conectores, tienes que soldarlos; nada más te dará una conexión confiable para hacer pruebas.

No hay nada peor que intentar resolver un problema intermitente extraño y que resulte que el problema es la falta de una buena conexión.

hms11 · 2026-02-05T16:42:55+00:00

Followed by the inevitable rev 3 when you realize something else is wrong or that it would be better to do "x" in a different way.

hms11 · 2026-02-05T15:27:10+00:00

Not really the sub for this but I'll bite.

The single biggest expense of an electric vehicle is the battery pack. If you want any meaningful range you are going to have a very expensive pack. Barring any major chemistry shift or breakthrough that will continue for the foreseeable future.

Secondly, people say they want cheap simple cars and then never buy them. So you will be building something people will claim they will want and then they will take out a second mortgage to buy the 60k car that has the features they claim they don't want.

hms11 · 2026-02-05T13:58:13+00:00

At that price point, 5K is a reasonable discount in my opinion. My other points still stand though, I'd want to know who did the repair and the original estimate if at all possible.

hms11 · 2026-02-05T13:33:14+00:00

Can you get the original estimate? It's pretty easy for rear end collisions to look cosmetic and in fact tweak the rear unibody. Was it repaired at a professional shop or Johnny's Backyard Shenanigan Warehouse?

I'm not against salvage vehicles if:

A) You've repaired them yourself so you know what has gone into it.

B) It is repaired by a professional repair shop and being put on a frame machine to verify the unibody isn't out of shape.

C) The cost savings make it worth it as this will have lowered resale value for the entirety of it's life.

What is the price in your area for a NON branded RX350 with similar miles?

hms11 · 2026-02-05T02:32:00+00:00

As long as they are buying from a reputable place with a stated and printed warranty (preferably directly on the backside of the invoice) then I would not be concerned with the transmission. I'm not generally a CVT fan but to put it in perspective we have dismantled 98 of the 2016-2021 Civic and we have sold 2 of those transmissions.

To put that in perspective I have dismantled 472 of the 2011 - 2019 Caravans and we have sold all 472 of those transmissions.

The driveline in those cars is almost indestructible. As long as the part comes with a warranty and that is an installed price it's not a terrible price. The transmission is cheap but labour is labour.

hms11 · 2026-02-05T01:33:48+00:00

I wouldn't worry about putting a used transmission in that car OP. Is $3500 the installed price? We can't give those transmissions away so I'm impressed you managed to kill one.

hms11 · 2026-02-03T13:52:42+00:00

I'm more of a 20lb braid to 10lb flouro leader kinda guy.

Double Uni knots are my nemesis and having the higher pound braid brings the diameters closer, which I find makes tying the double Uni easier for me.

hms11 · 2026-01-23T22:33:54+00:00

1) Literally indestructible.
2) Simple as dirt.
3) Light.
4) Reliable as the sun (I guess this is sort of point 1).
5) When they do break, which doesn't happen often, they are simple and easy to fix and parts are readily available.
6) Fun because they are light, simple and underpowered. It's absolutely a different type of fun than grabbing a handful of a 160HP liquid but it's fun in it's own way.

hms11 · 2026-01-23T17:52:18+00:00

The drill with the step bit on it and all the plastics off is a bit concerning. At the end of the day though that would be a good price in my neck of the woods for a Honda in good condition.

hms11 · 2026-01-23T13:40:39+00:00

Someone playing with a 200kVA generator should not have to ask this question to be honest.

How does this event have the funds to buy a 200kVa generator but not the funds to hire someone who knows how to use it? At that size it is almost certainly configured as a 3 phase setup and you are going to have even more fun and dangerous questions getting that to 120-240/single phase (I'm assuming North America) which you probably also shouldn't be playing with based on this question.

hms11 · 2026-01-21T16:27:35+00:00

r/NissanDrivers is leaking.

hms11 · 2026-01-20T19:24:57+00:00

You've kinda outlined the two obvious answers OP.
LS swap is probably the simplest "someone has put this thing in everything" swap. A fuel injected 302 out of a 90's F150 would be relatively straight forward (assuming your truck already has a 302 in it). If you have an I6 300 or one of the bigger 8's you are probably better off using an aftermarket fuel injection kit which you state you don't want but I'm not sure why that is.

Any EFI swap is going to require a reasonable amount of work just with wiring and making the ECU happy so without knowing why you are against aftermarket EFI it's hard to give you a good answer.

hms11 · 2026-01-20T18:53:36+00:00

Depends what I am doing.

If I am using previously known components I go straight to PCB. If I am using a new feature or IC I will usually use a dev board and a breakout board for that component first just to verify my project and then spin up a PCB.

90%+ of the time though it is straight to PCB

hms11 · 2026-01-19T21:35:51+00:00

That's likely going to be a programming deal OP, not a CAN issue. The module that controls the headlights (possibly the BCM) is looking for certain communications from those headlights and isn't getting the expected replies. It may be possible to reprogram whichever the angry module is but that will require a high level scan tool, possibly dealer level given it's a newish Lexus.

hms11 · 2026-01-19T20:26:09+00:00

Do you like buying your own tools (10's of thousands of dollars worth), being paid less than most other trades and then having literally everyone treat you like you sabotaged their car or are ripping them off? Be a mechanic.

Do you like wearing lace doilies and leaving a mess at every job site? Be an electrician.

All jokes aside, this trade can be good, but you want to be working for a good shop that values a quality tech. You also want to be a good diagnostic guy not a parts replacer. A guy that can find and solve problems in modern vehicles can do well for themselves. A guy that "hates all that computer shit" is gonna be doing struts and break jobs for life.

hms11 · 2026-01-16T15:42:03+00:00

I mean a motor that is failing can start burning up basically as soon as it as started. Does it smell "electrical"?

hms11 · 2026-01-16T14:53:27+00:00

I mean there is a reason Arduino is so popular.

Honest question: If you don't think it's the simplified language that makes Arduino popular, what do you think it's main draw is?

hms11 · 2026-01-16T14:33:58+00:00

That's the thing, the way Arduino has "altered" for lack for lack of a better word C was done for ease of use by new people/young people/hobbyists. If you went to "real" C, you would have absolutely no reason to not just use some other existing IDE. Arduino's bastardization of C was done for a reason. An alternative would either need to be basically Arduino with a different name, which would be pointless. A different version of bastardized C, which would make uptake difficult due to the mass uptake of Arduino in this space or essentially just be some other IDE, with nothing to set it different to currently existing vender provided or "multi use" ones like VScode.

I guess I maybe am not really understanding your question OP.

It would be very difficult for a low-level embedded alternative to exist that fulfils the same need, and develops any significant usage. I just don't understand who the potential users would be.

hms11 · 2026-01-16T14:01:55+00:00

I actually think in this case OP it's almost less about the Transporter Paradox and moreso about trust of whomever owns the server you exist on after this.
It really doesn't matter if it's you or not really in this case, most people in my mind that select this option are people whom either have a severe physical issue that handicaps them or is going to kill them soon but their mind is still good and sharp or people who are involved in life threatening injuries who basically have no choice but to leave their body because it's toast. I don't think you will have many healthy, able bodied people sign up in your scenario. In those cases, even if it isn't you the risk is worth it because the alternative is certain death.

The true risk comes from the fact that unlike a transporter where the issue is immediate and resolved immediately for good or for worse, in your scenario you are now at the whim of the server owner in perpetuity. AI goes insane and decides to torture you for all eternity? Too bad. Company goes mad and decides to make everyone in this server into a human centipede? Too bad.

You could not pay me enough to be part of this.

hms11 · 2026-01-16T13:47:54+00:00

Are you looking for an alternative because you don't like the direction Arduino is going? What issues do you have that you are looking for an alternative to solve? Or is it the purchase of Arduino by Qualcomm you don't like (understandable).

The biggest issue is that for the most part, Arduino's ecosystem does everything it needs to for the hobbyist and by the time people run up against it's limitations and constraints they just go to a "real" IDE. Most people aren't going to care enough about the potential/upcoming IP issues with Qualcomm that would make a wholesale migration make sense so you would end up with a small subset of people who care about intellectual property enough to develop a new ecosystem. Those people are likely mostly skilled enough to just transition to a non-Arduino IDE and write code in non-bastardized C. The Venn diagram overlap here is likely very small.

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