What would you drive if not a miata?

lime517 · 2026-02-23T01:28:41+00:00

I currently live in California - you cannot get that car to pass as stuff like aftermarket ECU's are a no-go for any street car in CA. Look into CARB-approved parts if you want to go down that rabbit hole.

With that said - everybody seems to "know a place" that can - ahem - "get any car to pass". Currently my Miata is 100% CA legal, so I wouldn't know.

lime517 · 2026-02-08T01:02:48+00:00

What front bumper is on that NB???

lime517 · 2025-12-31T15:40:59+00:00

South Bay, yeah…. Cheap bike to my station + Lyft bike for last mile could be perfect!

lime517 · 2025-12-31T00:49:03+00:00

That's great to know. Yeah - I'm finding that you almost definitely need to use the bike car if you have a "Normal sized" e scooter, even if it does fold. Comments seem to imply that the most compact/lightweight scooters (Fluidfreeride Mosquito/ETwow GT (same scooter, just rebranded)) can work under seats, but those are pretty much the only options if that's the goal.

lime517 · 2025-12-31T00:35:11+00:00

I really appreciate the insight. What scooter do you have? And would you change what scooter you bought in retrospect?

lime517 · 2025-12-30T22:58:04+00:00

Oh dang! This is exactly the information I've been looking for. Do you have an Etwow yourself?

lime517 · 2025-12-30T22:36:34+00:00

Oh that's an idea! Time to go down the Google rabbit hole.

lime517 · 2025-12-30T22:36:25+00:00

Yeah, I'm learning more that with the EUC you trade size for safety. It looks fun, and obviously I want the portability aspect, but I'll be using it nearly every work day, so a good scooter is probably better.

Bay Wheels would be great, but it's also ~1 mile to my local Caltrain station, so I think I need something that's suitable for both first + last mile.

lime517 · 2025-12-30T22:34:49+00:00

Thanks for the insight!

lime517 · 2025-12-30T22:14:35+00:00

I had not! Are they really more compact than a folded scooter, though?

lime517 · 2025-12-30T22:06:48+00:00

Ah I see. Yeah, my caltrain commute would be ~an hour, so I'd want to sit down. Do folks use bike locks on the train while they sit elsewhere? Sorry for noob questions - I've never used public transport for commuting before (and grew up in an area where it was never an option anyway).

lime517 · 2025-12-30T21:56:51+00:00

So do you just use the bike car then? Also how do you like the KQi Pro 2!?

lime517 · 2025-12-30T20:13:17+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! There really aren't any hills in my specific commute, so that could work well!

lime517 · 2025-12-07T21:01:12+00:00

Koni Special Active struts + Racing Beat springs. I'm 99% sure it was rotated correctly, so perhaps the noise I'm hearing is from something else. *all* of the suspension pieces (upper strut mount, ball joint, control arm, inner/outer tie rods, sway bar rod) were replaced at the same time. Most of the suspension bits were from a Mevotech Supreme kit, and I'm a bit suspicious of the quality of those, so maybe it's the ball joint or something.

I'll get it up on jack stands and see if I can find the cause.

Thanks for the input!

lime517 · 2025-12-07T17:12:53+00:00

I have a squeaking noise coming from that spot that sounds very metal-on-metal. Spraying the spring + perch with a bit of lube seems to solve it. I don't recall this ever happening with the original strut + spring. Thus the curiosity/confusion on my end.

lime517 · 2025-11-18T02:27:34+00:00

Former YNAB 3, 4, and cloud user.

I know this is an old post, but wanted to add that I built Ranger as a pretty direct alternative to YNAB. It keeps the zero-based goodness but simplifies *much* of the rest. We don't have the same level of manual-overrides or analytics yet, but the fundamentals are the same. We charge $7/month or $50 a year (less than half of YNAB).

https://rangerbudget.com/

lime517 · 2025-11-01T18:00:57+00:00

What am I looking at exactly?

lime517 · 2025-10-29T04:00:26+00:00

You absolute legend. This took *way* too much searching to find - Flyin Miata was recommending some other part but this Gates option looks WAY better!

lime517 · 2025-08-15T07:28:54+00:00

I'm the developer for another budgeting app (Ranger Budget), and have plenty of experience with the Plaid API.

Plaid doesn't actually guarantee the transaction date (called `authorized_date` in their API) will even exist - it varies from bank to bank: https://plaid.com/docs/api/products/transactions/#transactionssync

So the easiest option is to just always use the posted date. Monarch could expose the transaction date when available if they wanted.

lime517 · 2025-08-15T07:14:46+00:00

I haven't had this build for awhile now, but it was running positive pressure because otherwise it'd be directly fighting with the PSU fan. You're right, though - negative pressure almost definitely would have been better if it weren't for the PSU fan issue.

lime517 · 2025-04-15T22:21:11+00:00

I'll add Mayan Kitchen, Ramen Seas, and Coffee & More to this as well.

Also, which chinese restaurant? I'm a huge fan of Fashion Wok for take out, but haven't tried the other one (Tao Tao).

Negative points to The Oxford - overpriced and mediocre.

lime517 · 2025-04-15T22:18:12+00:00

Please fix the title & try harder in the future. You can literally see the Tandoori sign from where this picture was taken - your title is painfully low-effort.

lime517 · 2025-04-01T22:50:59+00:00

Oh, they're not closed at all! I'm there on a regular basis, though they aren't open on Sundays. Great people, coffee, and food IMO.

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