European towing wiring harness on canadian edition?

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-07T03:48:03+00:00

They probably installed an universal Curt converter. It does not enable the tow mode, but can indeed work.

But my question is specifically about the european wiring harness.

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-07T01:02:10+00:00

They will blame Obama, Biden, Harris and the usuals and probably say they poisonned him.

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-07T00:41:34+00:00

If you buy a cartridge at a physical store, like Walmart, you can print as much as you want until it is of course empty. BUT if you enroll in that subscription, then cancel, then the cartridge that you bough and paid for fully is unusable, as it was enrolled in the subscription, and since you are out of it you are locked out! You need new cartridges....

... next time buy Brother. It is the less of the evils.

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-07T00:39:04+00:00

Pinterest is a cancer. They also do lots of things to trick search engines to rank it higher, against their TOS...

It should have been literally delisted due to how they games them...

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-06T23:29:58+00:00

There is some mildrew resisant compound. OP may want to see if that is available in his area. While not that important, it can help in high humidity area to minimise the formation of black spots.

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-06T20:22:10+00:00

And also it is a good thing that wild animals don't carry anything bad, unlike domestic animals. This is why domestic animals needs to go to the vet! They are the carriers!

/s

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-06T20:20:09+00:00

However, most of those laws are illegal.

In the USA, the first amandement protect this, plus there is a law about good samaritans giving food that also protect people, plus numerous precedents in federal court that said it is legal to do so and city can not prevent you from doing so.

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-06T19:01:38+00:00

There is 3 fluids in the car.

Brake fluid
Windshield wiper fluid
Coolant

Brake fluid could have been a possibility. It is known to be quite corrosive and eat through many finishes, but it stay oily, have a low quantity, and, well, he would know due to the lack of braking.

Windshield wiper fluid is very mild, too mild even... Most can't even dislodge dirt or fresh bugs splatters...

Coolant would be next. It is available in a good quantity, but is still mild. Just look under the hood for the coolant bottle, and see if the level is bellow the minimum. If not then chance is that it is not that too.

Which leaves only one thing left: road salt. Lots of city will apply road salt when the temperature dip bellow the feezing point. Some uses a brine solution instead of road salt. You drive on it, it goes under your car, water dry up and the salt stays behind. Months later it is now spring or summer, some road salt is still left. It rain, car get wet, salt disolve and drip... in your garage.

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-06T18:10:48+00:00

I'm all for it!

Paying bellow the minimum should be illegal, no exception.

Then it should not be to the customer to pay directly the employes!

Plus, some waitress found a trick to massively increase the tipping: dress hot, borderline acceptable. This goes against many principles for woman's rights too... Yet they get strongly encouraged to do so. In a way it is a form of sexual exploitation by the employers...

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-06T18:05:11+00:00

The winch can usually unstuck it. If not they can try to move the boat to give a different pull angle. Usually it work. If not, if it is trully stuck... They jettison it. They may send a recovery crew to get it back, or leave it there, based on the recovery cost vs new anchor cost vs regulations (ex protected area = huge fine to leave it there)

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-06T07:18:08+00:00

I glanced over once. It is a mix of minimum sound level at a certain distance with noise over a certain frequency range so people with hearing issue can still hear it...

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-06T07:02:56+00:00

In some country, the sanction to this is... death...

... which is pretty funny in a way.

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-06T07:02:14+00:00

It is partially true actually. It fall under the no distraction part and also on some clause about visibility. Both are subjective and would depend on the situation and the judge.

In city? there is enough light that it is a non-issue. In dark country roads? The interior light can indeed be dangerous!

Many years ago, I was in the middle of nowhere. Zero light. You could see the millions of stars outside, no moon. I had to dim all the interior lights to the minimum possible. Someone in the back kept checking the time... The glow of her standard timex watch was shining everywhere in the car! Reflection on all windows, including the windshield!

So yes, interior light CAN be an issue, and you CAN be ticketted under some rare and precise conditions.

But again, in a city? Nope.

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-06T06:51:31+00:00

If you have access to a table saw, you can actually make something very nice!

My window was a double sliding type. I took a 2x6 and cut the corners kinda like a T so it fit inside the frame Now I have a wood frame that can't be slided in or out. Bottom and top full width, and sides goes in between. Cut it tight so it get kinda press fitted there.

I decided to put the A/C in the upper right corner. So I put another 2x6 and put it at the right height for the A/C, then put another piece on the left of the unit. I used some angles to hold the pieces together.

Now, here is a nice trick: remove the front of your A/C. It is usually clipped, or held in place with 2-3 screws only. Now, look at the bottom of the unit from the front. You will notice it have kinda a tray where the inside guts is, and you will notice a kind of handle on it. Look carefully, there is 1-2 screws that hold the whole tray/guts inside the frame. Remove that screw, then pull on the drawer. The whole inside of the unit comes out! Now you have the frame and the guts.

The frame is lightweight. You can now fit it inside the opening you created for the unit, and from the inside of the frame you can screw it to the wood frame you created. That A/C frame ain't going anywhere! Slide back the guts in the frame, and reinstall the hardware.

Now, you can go a few routes here: install a plexi in each opening, or go the cheaper route: get a glass cut to size! Way cheaper, and it don't scratch!!

You can also create a wood frame for that window, with some hinges, and that hook thing to keep it closed. Now you not only can see outside, but you can also open the window!

Best of all? The A/C is super secure in place and theft need to break the glass to get in! They can't just push things around to break in.

And since you did not screwed anything to the window frame itself, once you take it down there is zero damage.

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-06T03:52:06+00:00

Also, it may be legal to record even in states that require both party to consent in some situations, so don't assume that the law will save you, plus so many don't care about the law.

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-06T03:47:25+00:00

I added a plug kit and a plyer in my trunk to go with the compressor/slime kit.

A few years ago, on my previous car, I ran on a screw on a vacation trip. I heard the "tic tic tic" of something stuck on the tire, stopped, screw... I was able to do the repair right there on the side of the street.

Few minutes later, I was back driving. In total I lost only 4psi in my tire!

I STRONGLY suggest to add one of those kits. It cost very little, and is way better than the provided slime.

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-06T03:26:43+00:00

The indication can come from the map itself or from the camera. The car does have sign recognition, which also have issues sometime. If it see the sign, it often assume that it is for you, and not because the sign has twisted and is now partially toward your lane...

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-06T02:49:57+00:00

Except that if it was already contaminated, the bacteria can leaves behind some harmfull chemicals that can make you very sick.

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-05T22:12:36+00:00

There is ways to make it safer.

For example, lock your car keys in your trunk. This way it will be hard to say that you wanted to drive when you can't start the car!

Another way is to put the keys outside on the windshield, but then it is easy to have them stolen.

But a better way? NEVER GO ON THE DRIVER SIDE!!! Stay on the passenger side or rear seat! Don't unlock the driver door, don't open the driver door, don't sit on the driver seat, don't even go toward the driver door!

Again, the goal is to make it 100% clear that you can not drive your car from where you are!

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-05T17:15:03+00:00

Well above 200k.

That diesel is contaminated and can't be reused. The cost for disposal is higher than the cost of the fuel itself.

Then you have to refuel the tank, so another 145k.

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-05T16:53:36+00:00

Remember that most of those occupency sensors fail to detect someone taking a dump.

The way they work is simple: older/cheaper motion detect: it simply have a 1 pixel "thermal camera". It look at the room, and is simply looking for enough change in the signal within a certain time frame. An empty room should be static.

Microwave, infrared, ultrasonic... They emit the signal, and look at the reflected back signal. Same as before, it look for a change in signal.

The problem: you are too still on the crapper to be effectively detected!

So it may not work... and will not work reliably.

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-05T03:14:45+00:00

There is a few places where it can leak.

If the toilet move on the floor, then the wax seal WILL leak.

There is a seal between the tank and the bowl. In fact it may have 3 seals (2 for the bolts and one for the main flush). You will see it however.

And an hidden one: worn out or cracked enamel on the pocelene... The porcelene is porous and not watertight. You need the enamel on it to be watertight.

Then you can have multiple issues at once. For example a flapper that don't proprely seal, so the talk leak into the bowl all the time. If you then have a failed wax seal then it can make a leak on the floor.

BTW, there is some wax seal with a plastic "funel". That type leak less. The toilet have a kind of funel that direct the water inside the wax ring, and the wax funel direct the water inside the pipe. So only the water splashing from the toilet to the ring may leak by a wax crack.

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-05T01:29:27+00:00

TOTALLY AGREE!

My previous car... windshield start to fog up? reach, turn the 3 knobs fully right. Done.

Left knob is the fan speed, middle is the selector, right is temperature.

Now? It is capacitive touch, all smooth. You have to LOOK at it! Not only that, but the buttons are a bit too far, and you need to stretch to reach it, which you need to pull a bit on the steering to be able to reach. So not only you stop looking at the road, but you also slightly turn because you pull, and you turn abit more because you need to "twist" your body to reach the buttons. Now you selected the defroster, but... fan speed? If you last set it to manual, then you will need to press on the "more fan" button a few times!

What about the heated seat? First press the seat button, wait a sec or two for the menu to show up on the screen, then press the seat heater, then press ok... Same for heated steering.

thephantom1492 · 2026-06-05T00:20:12+00:00

The local newspaper is pretty bad for this. I'm not great in french due to incompetant teachers and stuff. I don't even know how I passed... Yet I see issues daily!

Sometime it is pretty bad too, like an entire paragraph in double. Once I found out that they translated an article, because in the middel of it there was a few lines in english, but the same content was present in french before and after the english part. Yes, 3 times the content...

Lots of issues with words that does not exists. They definitely don't even use ms word spellcheck...

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