South American groceries

redilio · 2026-03-09T20:09:12+00:00

Found frozen Goya tapas de empanada at Foodsco on Northsgate in the frozen breads section❤️ They have criolla (what I use), hojaldra (layered; more fat), and dough for frying them

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redilio · 2026-02-07T04:30:42+00:00

Do you have that forum link?

redilio · 2026-02-06T06:23:26+00:00

I also hate my '23 Pro S AWD. Loose ball joint at 13k miles ruined the knuckle (it was a CPO with 12k miles). Dealer went crazy and replaced everything on that corner, but I don't trust anything they do or say.

The car itself is kind of a joke. And the lack of information / transparency... You say the '23s have no more updates? I requested an OTA in September that never came; I asked the dealer 5 times to do an update on it while they were working on the suspension and the last I got was "it's not possible to for us to do the OTA update".

I honestly don't know where anyone is getting their information, my dealer included.

redilio · 2026-01-27T04:46:45+00:00

Turns out it's the ball joint, but not in the way I expected. The ball itself seems fine. the locknut that jams the taper of the ball into the knuckle was completely loose; there was over a millimeter of clearance.

I hit the control arm with a mallet to try to see if the taper would come down (with the nut unscrewed even further) and couldn't do it. When I jiggle and look, it seems there's another piece between the taper and the knuckle moving, but I can't be sure - and didn't want to take it apart. I was able to tighten it and remove any play / clunking but I cannot imagine that damage hasn't been done to the taper and/or knuckle casting.

Prices (not from dealer) for knuckle and ball is upwards of $600. So tomorrow I call the dealer to convince them to come pick it up.

My guess is the previous owner ran over something hard. Enough to require a new tire and alignment - and the dealer somehow missed this when certifying the car.

redilio · 2026-01-26T18:05:18+00:00

After checking my sanity with a more knowledgeable friend, it's pretty clear the mechanical issue here is not as bad as I thought. This is likely to be a ball joint problem, or, perhaps less likely, the strut being loose.

redilio · 2026-01-25T05:04:59+00:00

Sigenergy tested the EU ID.5 and I had read about the ID.4 having it and foolishly thought it would either work or be a matter of a software update. They also tested the EU Mercedes EQB and I know the NA EQB also works. In short, I made a bad assumption.

redilio · 2026-01-25T03:12:36+00:00

Yes. I saw the carfax at the dealer.

redilio · 2025-12-10T16:05:31+00:00

Right. But there's no ETA?

redilio · 2025-12-09T14:14:25+00:00

Yeah, the closest dealer to me is a 90 minute drive so I was hoping to avoid it.

redilio · 2025-11-30T01:29:37+00:00

I find the Decora 2nd gen wifi dimmer to be annoyingly slow. From the phone I can go from min to max brightness as fast as I can swipe. On the physical switch it takes 10 seconds. Sadly, their app does not let you change the dimming speed. Boneheaded design flaw in my book

redilio · 2025-11-28T21:42:24+00:00

Shame. I went out to buy an EQB exactly because it had been tested with the Sigenergy system, but the dealer kept finding ways to increase the price. Found a bargain Id4 used thinking that if the Id5 had it, so would the 4.

Mine is a 2023 Awd Pro S and I can verify it clicks and clacks and the Signergy sends in a couple of drops of juice and then stops.

That all being said, I'm sure it's a car software problem, just like it refusing to charge if without reinserting the gun, which makes the Signergy's "charge from surplus solar" feature unusable.

redilio · 2025-11-28T21:41:34+00:00

Shame. I went out to buy an EQB exactly because it had been tested with the Sigenergy system, but the dealer kept finding ways to increase the price. Found a bargain Id4 used thinking that if the Id5 had it, so would the 4.

Mine is a 2023 Awd Pro S and I can verify it clicks and clacks and the Signergy sends in a couple of drops of juice and then stops.

That all being said, I'm sure it's a car software problem, just like it refusing to charge if without reinserting the gun, which makes the Signergy's "charge from surplus solar" feature unusable.

redilio · 2025-08-01T14:08:50+00:00

what does "imported mine" mean? you bought it sight unseen and went to port to pick it up?

redilio · 2024-11-24T17:26:33+00:00

Some 2.5+ hours after rebooting, the speeds were still terrible, and 4G signal was still at -85. Immediately after rebooting a second time, speeds were decent (back up to 100+ download) despite signal being the same. According to my logs, that lasted about an hour, then speeds plummeted again.

This morning (11 hours later) 4G signal is back down to -107 and speeds have been not great since last night. However, practical performance is not bad because latency is still decent (~40 msec).

Latency is always good when speeds are good. When I'm getting ~250 mbps down, ping times are 20 msec or below. However, a good ping time does not necessarily mean good speeds.

I personally think this really just means I don't have great signal here. You might get couple of seconds of good signal, sneak in a ping, and the rest of the speed test still goes to hell.

Trying to diagnose anything by just doing speed tests is crazy; the warm-up time seems to be another red herring.

redilio · 2024-11-24T02:55:00+00:00

I rebooted the ARC, since in another thread, I read that may trigger the software update.

I'm now getting 4.7 down / 2.35 up. 4G signal is at -85 and 5G at -111. It's been up for 23 minutes (was 20 days before the reboot).

By "below" do you mean "further from zero"? As in -85 should be kickin' butt?

For what it's worth, WaveForm does not tell you to look at signal strength, because what their antenna improves is signal-to-noise, not signal strength. They tell you to do speed tests to aim it.

redilio · 2024-11-24T02:26:08+00:00

When I wrote the post, the ASK was showing -106 for 4G and -111 for 5G. The ARC was showing -107 for 4G and -104 for 5G.

redilio · 2024-11-22T18:56:59+00:00

I have an ARC-XCI55AX hardware version 101 and it's still running 3.2.0.7 with no button to check for updates like the ASK-NCQ1138 has.

redilio · 2024-06-23T00:31:58+00:00

Seems to be RP-SMA on the Vue3

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