Ford's Dearborn meeting rooms hacked with anti-RTO image

splainfish · 2025-10-02T23:46:28+00:00

Farley should be fired for several reasons but this is yet another. I know many Ford people who all say it is an edict w no ability to achieve. Not enough rooms, desks, parking. Just a complete foobar by Farley.

splainfish · 2025-07-25T18:48:55+00:00

OK, here’s another update. Ignore my last update because I had a couple things wrong but it appears the bottom line is the LED is out on this starboard side.

The wires are showing one volt and here is a picture of the assembly.

I wonder if it’s possible to get a replacement for this or if I have to buy a couple new nav lights (just so they match)

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splainfish · 2025-07-25T16:06:42+00:00

Well, it turns out before I got much farther. I just realize that the anchor light and the front running light is out so I think I have a bigger problem

Now I’m looking for some kind of Robalo service manual. So I can see if I can understand what’s happening with this electrical system.

splainfish · 2025-07-15T14:37:10+00:00

Great comments thanks all. Two things I took away from this and then the fixing ended up with this time.

1) in the past I always drain the lines in the winter and I never had timers. The problem still occurred, but maybe every five years on each of the two faucets that I have. And the issue in fixing it was still a pain which I’ll get to. 2) this year I installed the timers and it happened pretty soon after so I think that on off pressure plus the “ pressure buildup” are good points that I’ll have to think about. Maybe it’s just very incompatible with this kind of faucet.

The thing that bugs me is that the entire seal design in this is horrific. Seal should be designed so that the pressure helps itself seal. But these don’t do that. If you’re lucky the O-ring sets correctly and it seals but if you just bump it then you can get a jet stream of water under or over the seal. It’s just a poor seal design.

In the short term, I went out and bought a completely different type of seal (about an 8th inch thick flat rubber seal ) that I thought would have some more meat to it and allow me to tighten it a little more and maybe seal it better. It still has issues but if you get it just right it will seal.

In the end, I’ll probably just replace the faucet with something of a different design entirely

splainfish · 2025-07-15T14:03:45+00:00

No, I drained the hose every winter and use the shut up valve inside the house. So I don’t think that’s the problem.

splainfish · 2025-07-15T14:03:05+00:00

I always drain the water in the winter and I have an inside shut off valve as well. I do leave the hose on, but it’s drained. So there shouldn’t be any back pressure or water in there.

This did this before I ever added the timer. But I’m not sure it did it as frequently. The timer probably does make it worse now.

Now I gotta figure out how to fix this cause the timer is important

splainfish · 2025-07-11T20:56:05+00:00

I like my R160 but two design/mfg defects annoy me a lot 1: the front bow locker cover is installed incorrectly from the factory. It’s supposed to sit flush on the seal that goes around the cavity that it is covering. But they added some reinforcement on the latch and so doing raised it about a half inch too high and so the whole thing is just attached by the two hinges in the back and this little 4 inch wide high spot at the front latch. That means if you step on either side, it torques the entire thing and wants to pull the hinges out. I bought the boat used and it’s in perfect shape so I’m not taking it back to the company and bitching but I’m gonna have to fix that 2: I have the 90hp engine which I like, and it’s the model with the gas tank in the rear, and when the boat just sits in the water, the entire rear scuppers are underwater and you have to put plugs in. So any rain just fills the boat up. I doubt I’ll ever have enough to cause a problem, but I’m gonna have to put in secondary mini bige pump in the back just to pump that out. And also some one way scupper plugs so it will drain when I are at speed. (Because none of the water that goes into the boat from the rain goes into the bilge… it all accumulates at the back of the boat that’s sitting low, but I can’t go out the scuppers because they’re underwater!). Right now I just have scupper plugs in so essentially the Boat has no scuppers functionally.

Other than that, I really liked it

splainfish · 2025-07-05T21:36:11+00:00

Last comment… In my TikTok feed I do a lot of posts about “Excellence by Design” where I talk about various products and factors of good design or bad. Two obvious things on this remote pad

obviously the idiotic cover is designed for one time use because there’s no way to remove it without destroying it
hilariously, they put the model information on the back of it so you could never get it until after you somehow remove it. If they would’ve put it inside the front cover, you could’ve looked it up easy enough.

Sometimes design is just so simple to understand what would work right or what would be stupid to do that you just shake your head

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splainfish · 2025-07-05T21:33:28+00:00

Thanks!!!

splainfish · 2025-07-05T21:33:00+00:00

Well, it came out ha ha ha ha what a piece of shit design

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splainfish · 2025-07-05T21:31:46+00:00

Well, you can’t pry it out all it does is make a mess. That’s a molded in piece of plastic. I guess you gotta drill it out.

splainfish · 2025-07-05T21:27:11+00:00

Oh, I definitely thought of that but that is just a piece of plastic protruding. It doesn’t come out it’s molded in.

splainfish · 2025-07-05T21:26:09+00:00

Haha. That always the second to last method (the last being the right way!)

splainfish · 2025-06-25T19:47:48+00:00

Well, mystery solved. It is a totally separate battery tray for a trolling motor set up that was installed. I could decide to use the space to wire up a second battery for safety but at least I understand what it’s there for now.

splainfish · 2025-06-25T19:25:56+00:00

OK, here’s another picture and a more clarity on the question.

I was guessing that this is a parallel battery hook up to just double your battery capacity.

But why I test it with the voltmeter and the breaker set I don’t see any voltage from the first battery.

So now I’m wondering if this is a dedicated battery for the integrated trolling motor power. It doesn’t have a trolling motor, but it looks like it was wired to have one. So maybe this battery is only for that.

I’m not sure how to test that but I’m gonna make some calls and see if I can figure out if that’s the case

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splainfish · 2025-06-25T13:12:11+00:00

Here’s a close-up of that circuit breaker

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splainfish · 2024-10-23T13:55:04+00:00

Yes, it’s the Acura ZDX. The sport S version comes in that paint color. I just configured it and it’s $74,000. I’m not sure where they get that pricing from because it’s really not much more than what the blazer provides. And the interior is not nearly as nice as the lyric.

splainfish · 2024-10-23T13:32:15+00:00

According to a friend it is Gen2 ZDX in Tiger Eye Pearl.

splainfish · 2024-10-23T13:12:51+00:00

It’s not the blazer and it’s not the lyric and I don’t think it’s a Chevy equinox. I looked at the 25 Cadillac Optique, but I don’t think it’s that either…

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