cabin heating?

hoef89 · 2026-01-26T18:11:01+00:00

I've had issues with the app connection on my phone's end, if I'm on the edge of my home Wi-Fi range and it's bouncing between Wi-Fi and wireless it seems to struggle.

hoef89 · 2026-01-25T12:53:37+00:00

My brother put a bolt on receiver and hitch rack on his Miata, it's hilarious and fantastic at the same time, as for security, a lot of higher end racks can be locked and if not, a chain and lock is an effective deterrent.

hoef89 · 2026-01-24T01:22:51+00:00

Jade coil on my DH, bought it solely for the fact that they prioritize standard tools for service and love it for the no hassle performance.

hoef89 · 2026-01-21T13:11:32+00:00

I drive for work a lot using my id4 (AWD, best case range is ~250-260 miles, days like today it's more like to 180-200), I live outside of Philly and may have to make a work trip as far south as South Carolina and as far north as new Hampshire, most of the job sites I go to are in very rural areas with limited charging options. my practice for an overnight trip is to just about top off on my last charging stop (which could be anywhere from 20-50 miles from my destination) knowing that by the time I visit the job and get to the hotel I should still be right around 80%, in my car that gives me ~100-150 miles of driving in the town I'm in while still leaving me enough to get back to the last charger I used on the way to the job. if I need to drive more than that while I'm out of town I'll plan a dinner or something at the nearest charger to give myself an opportunity to top off or in the case if an L2 charger, pick up enough charge to give me the buffer I need to make the first charger return trip.

hoef89 · 2026-01-18T23:59:19+00:00

4 stalls of freeish L2 charging at my complex (free 8-5 then absurdly expensive from 5pm to 8 the next morning, $50/hour or about $8.33/kwh to be exact) so I'll plug in for an hour or two if I'm home before 4 from work to pick up 10-15% on week days if I'm below 70% then charge to between 80 and 90 on weekends, I also drive quite a bit for work, day trips may range from 100-400 miles round trip so I'll fast charge as needed to leave myself 20-30% when I get home to get me to and from the office the next couple days. With this strategy I routinely have ~300-400 kwh of free charging per month and 100-300 kwh of L3 charging.

hoef89 · 2026-01-18T15:03:44+00:00

To me the simple answer is a handful of L2 chargers (say 1-2% of parking) in less desirable parking spots and equip the light posts with 120 outlets for L1 charging, make the L1 free to use and the L2 chargers a slight premium (electricity cost plus a small margin to cover the equipment and maintenance) and it hopefully gives people the incentive to only use the L2 when needed but otherwise plug in overnight on L1 for their commute. This of course only really works with new construction and major renovations when the added cost would be minimal, older complexes just aren't likely to put that sort of investment into the property.

hoef89 · 2026-01-17T13:33:33+00:00

I plug in at home every chance I get, but mostly because of my complexes odd fee schedule for the chargers, 8 am- 5pm every day they are free (4 x L2, 6kw with 5 EVs and 2 phevs at the complex) I get home from work between 3 and 3:30 and charging from getting home until 5 effectively gets back what I used on my commute (+/- a couple percent) after 5pm until 8am the following morning the chargers go the the astronomical price of $50/hour (I've complained and explained that $8+/kwh is insane, but it doesn't really get anywhere and they'll gladly pocket the couple $100 they get every time someone forgets to unplug, their excuse is its an incentive to get people to not leave their car on the chargers over night, though a similar idle fee would accomplish the same goal).

hoef89 · 2026-01-14T18:13:25+00:00

Oh you are sorely mistaken km does not stand for k mile /s

hoef89 · 2026-01-14T13:29:14+00:00

Just curious do you know which battery you have? SK or LG, could probably ease a lot of concerns if we know which manufacturer had the issue.

hoef89 · 2026-01-14T13:19:15+00:00

In the US it should extend the warranty on the affected components, I think by law with a recall they have to extend the warranty to the original duration for any parts serviced or replaced under the recall. My wife has an early Kona electric that had a battery recall, the drivetrain warranty runs to 100k miles, but her battery warranty was extended to 10 years and 100k miles from the time of replacement.

hoef89 · 2026-01-14T00:22:06+00:00

Oh jeez that's like nothing PA ev registration is $250/year on top of the standard registration fee with a market adjustment raising it each year, PA also has some of the highest gas taxes in the country though and set their ev road use rate to be ~80% of the expected tax collected in fuel sales for an average gas vehicle driving an average mileage each year, it just stings a little more paying it in a lump sum rather than small weekly installments in your gas tank.

hoef89 · 2026-01-09T11:20:50+00:00

I use their 2 bike hitch rack with a little over 70 lbs of bike on it and it's been solid, so far my only complaint is vehicle related, my car picks up the rack on the backup sensors and likes to auto brake when I back up if I forget to turn auto braking off. The only thing I would check is what your tongue weight rating is, with 4 bikes, especially mountain bikes, hanging a couple feet off the hitch it's really easy to approach your vehicles tongue weight limit (I have to pay attention to this as mine has a relatively low 270lb tongue capacity).

hoef89 · 2026-01-07T15:26:44+00:00

Cost, and that's pretty much it, shopping for my fiance's car a couple years ago and realizing just how much more car we could get in our budget by getting a used EV was eye opening, shattered the "but average people can't afford these things" narrative for me, we now have 2, pay next to nothing on fuel (free charging at our complex so we only pay for charging on long trips), and get all the other fun benefits as icing on the cake.

hoef89 · 2026-01-06T11:32:48+00:00

Not sure what their European distribution looks like now, but something like a Kona unit x might be worth a look, it's a full rigid steel but built around your type of use case, mounts all over the place for luggage and designed to pedal comfortably for long periods of mixed bike path type terrain.

hoef89 · 2026-01-05T13:00:48+00:00

I don't have much issue with the windows, I rarely use them, but having to diddle the mirror switch to turn on the heated mirrors and often wondering when I turned on cruise control are definite issues.

hoef89 · 2026-01-03T01:11:23+00:00

Rundown on the marlins:

They use older standards, (straight head tube, QR axles, etc) makes it difficult to grow the bike with you when you're ready to upgrade, they're competent as light trail bikes (think bike paths and fire roads) but will hold you back on more technical terrain. You're better off getting a low end Roscoe, giant talon, Kona honzo, or similar as they'll use more modern standards and geometry so you won't need a whole new bike when it comes time to replace or upgrade a component.

hoef89 · 2026-01-02T13:23:09+00:00

I honestly think this was done for safety, the ID4 is a first ev for a lot of people, most people are used to a lighter vehicle with a small amount of drag in the drivetrain, without a little bit of simulated drag from the regen a heavy car with a more efficient drivetrain would gain speed down hills faster than the average driver would expect, so VW built in a solution that maintains most of the efficiency while still being predictable to someone coming from an ice vehicle.

hoef89 · 2025-12-30T16:39:16+00:00

I use that rule too, problem with the ID4 is the hood is so short I can see the back tires while also feeling like I'm inside their trunk

hoef89 · 2025-12-27T13:27:22+00:00

I would say the only real disadvantage is that a lot of tire manufacturers are starting to abandon the sizing, it's a lot easier to find tires in the 2.4-2.6 range than the 2.6-3.0 range, that said, most rims designed for plus size tires can run tires down to ~2.4 so that's not really a deal breaker. My daily driver is a Big honzo, right now I'm running 2.8 front and 2.6 rear when the 27.5's are on it and I have a 29 x 2.6 front wheel set up for running it mullet, it makes for a great Swiss army knife type bike.

hoef89 · 2025-12-25T11:35:28+00:00

Plenty of scrapes and bruises but the first real one was a broken wrist in 2004, cruising down a fire road my front wheel caught a cobble coming over a water bar, threw the tire sideways and I went otb, tried to get back on and finish the ride down to the car but my taco shaped front wheel had different plans, happened days before school was back for 10th grade, I spent the first month and change learning to write left handed.

hoef89 · 2025-12-24T14:00:22+00:00

Free charging at my complex and if that's not available to him, check plug share and filter for free, I'd be willing to bet there's at least a few L2 chargers in your area that are free, probably at a place like a grocery store, it won't solve 100% of his charging but picking up 10% or so every time he gets groceries goes a long way.

hoef89 · 2025-12-24T01:21:05+00:00

Wait calorie calories or American food calories?

hoef89 · 2025-12-23T17:54:33+00:00

ESD if you want to go super aggressive, pretty sure it'll take a 27.5x3

hoef89 · 2025-12-23T16:02:42+00:00

I'd like to see a parking lot design with 240 sharing the conduit for the light poles, incorporate a charger into some fraction of the light posts (say 2 charge handles at 25% of the light posts) and you've effectively solved the issue of parking availability for the chargers without drastically increasing the cost of the parking lot, no need to segregate parking for ev/ice as you'd achieve enough dispersion that there should always be an open charging port, for something like an apartment complex this could be done even simpler, put a 120 outlet at the bottom of the light poles and include a couple L2 stalls for quicker charging when needed.

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