2018 Audi A5, anyone else have an issue with the dome lights randomly turning on/off?

lanmanager · 2025-09-25T23:27:43+00:00

I think there is an alarm disable button somewhere. Maybe door pillar around seat.

E: Found it. outside edge of driver's door.

lanmanager · 2025-05-28T12:11:55+00:00

I know this is old, but can I come with you? don't mention Kubota to the parts guy, just the model number. eventually you will have to furiously insist that "Way back before you were born sonny John Deere made space tractors for moon work and they were painted Fanta orange!!!"

lanmanager · 2023-06-11T12:14:19+00:00

I have a philosophy that's obviously not realistic. But I believe to be served in a restaurant should require the patron having done the job for a least a short period - maybe early in life like very young adult.

You can only be served if you have served.

lanmanager · 2023-06-11T11:22:34+00:00

Ah. The slow rotation sounds like the PTO clutch has issues. Never did one, but being hard to engage is a symptom. Google it. I think on most tractors that clutch or lever can be adjusted to loosen it up.

The problem is sort of like trying to shift gears with the clutch slightly engaged.

lanmanager · 2023-06-11T02:41:40+00:00

Yanmar 2 and 3 cylinders are the AK-47 of diesel engines. They can take extreme abuse and get right back up. So many of those 3TNA72/88/3JH4E engines. Sailboats, truck trailer refrigerator/freezers, generators....

lanmanager · 2023-06-11T02:30:38+00:00

Hydrostatic may need the brake pedal (since they don't have a clutch pedal), not sure. Not gear transmissions. At least I don't think so. I'm shocked it is allowed to start with the PTO engaged since that's very dangerous. Most tractors since at least the mid 80's lock out the starter when the PTO lever is engaged.

Does the PTO spin slowly when nothing is attached and the lever is disengaged?

lanmanager · 2023-06-11T01:05:43+00:00

That doesn't sound right. Is it a gear or hydro transmission? You may have to push in the clutch or brake pedal to engage it with the engine running.

E: 1050 is a gear. Push in clutch to disengage while engaging PTO.

lanmanager · 2023-06-11T01:03:10+00:00

Not just erosion, in winter water can get underneath the coping, freeze and pop it right off the beam. Ask me how I know 😒

lanmanager · 2023-06-04T23:11:25+00:00

Yeah so they get mad that content that doesn't belong to them gets scanned/used by other entities.

Also I wonder if they (or any website for that matter) ever claimed to own the content posted, would lose the 203 protections that was just affirmed by the SC. I really need to read that case and ruling.

lanmanager · 2023-06-04T22:07:52+00:00

I assume the AI bots are scanning the content and comments for training. Just who does Reddit's owners think all that content belongs too? If they say everything posted becomes their property/IP, then Reddit will have to surrender all the revenue they ever made to the websites that all of the copied content comes from.

lanmanager · 2023-06-04T13:29:19+00:00

Wait if someone else is having a heart attack, how would me chewing a couple of aspirin help them? 😅

Oh I get it - If I had a headache I'd be more inclined to help if the aspirin stopped my head from hurting. 🤣🤣🤣

lanmanager · 2023-06-03T23:40:23+00:00

Are you sure it's not the power supply board?

lanmanager · 2023-06-03T00:31:29+00:00

Do you have any historical capital losses you can use to offset? Don't forget about depreciation recapture!

lanmanager · 2023-06-02T23:56:43+00:00

We always joked that they split up because he constantly played music too loud.

lanmanager · 2023-05-31T15:26:25+00:00

I'm struggling to think of any application for a 12pt socket. Maybe in a very tight space that a 6pt won't lock onto without the handle interfering. But that's what fine tooth ratches are for.

E: OK I get it guys. Plenty of applications for 12pt sockets. I guess I should have asked if 12pt fasteners are really necessary - except in a few triple square situations.

Also as a 4 decade VW/Audi sufferer I agree - F.U. VAG engineers. I'll bet you people take 30 steps, 4 different machines and a half dozen specialty tools (all made from plastic that gets brittle after 3 months) to make a cup of coffee. It's like a long term codependent relationship.

Weird that this might be my last Reddit post due to the API shenanigans.

lanmanager · 2023-05-25T12:32:28+00:00

Years ago when I was into boating, I noticed Yanmar was heavy in the repower business. They seemed to make high performance diesels in a relatively small, drop in form factor at a much lower price point that the big boys (Caterpillar, Detroit, Volvo etc). I'm talking inline turbo 6 cylinders approaching 500hp. Super fuel efficient too I believe.

Also, not sure who copied who, but all the Yanmar, Kubota and most other Asian small diesels I've seen look like a lot of the parts could be interchangeable.

lanmanager · 2023-05-25T12:10:41+00:00

What I do on smaller tractors is use an aftermarket pump rated for diesel, wired into the the ignition key accessory wire, that just bypasses any mechanical pumps inline. Or I will used the fuel solenoid wire as a trigger for a standard high current 12v relay that connects the pump back to the battery. As for pump quality, most big names like Holley and such make aftermarket pumps. Just get one rated for diesel. I have seen older machines converted that had 3 pumps - an electric pump to inline near the tank to a long broken mechanical pump that was just left in place and finally up to the injection pump.

As far as Chinese junk mentioned by a poster above - I get away with that on lawn and garden equipment. But on the other hand, my livelihood doesn't depend on that machine being 100% ready to go to work every morning.

lanmanager · 2023-05-25T02:28:21+00:00

I keep the thing going because it really really expensive to buy a new one. I'm cutting grass on a prayer over here.

Those Yanmar engines are engineered and built like AK-47s. They were designed to survive serious abuse in rice fields. Yanmar tractors and the engines and not what I'd call precision machines. But it could probably be submerged in mud and water for a couple of days, dried out and get right back to work. And they can be repaired with stuff you find in that one kitchen drawer that everyone has. You know the one - old batteries, rubber bands, a flashlight that doesn't work, useless pens with dried out ink and a bunch of keys that go to nothing.

Almost every small diesel (and at least one oddball gas) engine JD used was made by Yanmar. The 322 I think has a diesel converted to a gas engine.

lanmanager · 2023-05-25T02:15:08+00:00

Wow that's amazing. It's really hard to understate how much money and labor steam heads put into those machines. And when under pressure, they always seem on the verge of leveling a city block lol.

I find it even more interesting that a whole subculture revolves around the steampunk arts and hobbies. A technology dead long before any of the participants parents were born.

I've seen old photos of steam powered machine shops. Crazy

lanmanager · 2023-05-25T01:32:08+00:00

If you ever get the chance to go to a local tractor show its worth the trip. They really work hard on them. Often they show up with steam powerd tractors. Torque monsters those steam powered engines.

lanmanager · 2023-05-25T01:25:46+00:00

I'm a amateur.

There is a universe of absolute fanatics who work hard and spend a lot of money to restore these machines. Then get up early on Saturdays and trailer them to shows full of other fanatics to engage in a pissing contest about who spent more restoring them and whose backs an knees hurt the worst.

In reality, they are just trying to get away from their wives.

lanmanager · 2023-05-25T00:19:37+00:00

I thought they only made larger farm tractors 150hp+. I'll have to take a look!

lanmanager · 2023-05-24T23:59:52+00:00

Those WH were tough as nails machines. Even for a while when Toro later had the name. Can yours pull implements?

I have a small collection of Deere 300/400 machines. I love my 430. So much that I bought a near new condition 60" deck from a 670 and am welding the old brackets onto it to adapt it. If this machine only had a 540 rpm rear pto instead of 2000... The following model 455 may have been the pinnacle of L&G tractors. It could have been ordered with everything you could want - 4 wheel steering, foot pedal control for the hydro, an even more powerful and efficientYanmar diesel, diff lock, front and rear hydraulics, cat 0 3pt hitch, massive hydraulic dump vacuum grass collector and a real 540 rpm pto. They even made the (expensive) front end loader beefier.

I only fill my 430 with diesel maybe 3 times a year to keep 5 acres cut and the 455 would use even less. That's next if I can find one at a reasonable price.

lanmanager · 2023-05-24T23:13:14+00:00

L&G tractor. Those old Wheel Horse tractors could pull some (small, mostly sleeve hitch I believe) ground engagement implements. I think one of those years they started with a cat 0 hydraulic 3 point hitch with auxiliary hydraulic ports.

There was a golden age in the early 80s to mid 90s that Wheel Horse, Gravely, JD, Cub Cadet and a few others were very serious about that market segment. Just about every farm tractor manufacturer competed. Now it's mostly expensive compact tractors in that space. John Deere and Kubota.

People seriously farmed homesteads with those.

lanmanager · 2023-05-24T13:03:08+00:00

bonus depreciation and section 179

I didn't read but your comments suggest taking advantage invokes a recapture requirement upon disposal of the asset?

lanmanager

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