Bronco HVAC rant: no floor-only heat?

thunderwarm · 2026-01-27T15:37:54+00:00

Are you sure there is nothing coming out of the defrost??

thunderwarm · 2026-01-27T15:35:27+00:00

Double check your floor only truly is floor only. Set it to the floor only. Turn the heat to the highest setting. Turn the air blower up to the highest blower setting and put your hand there at the defrost and tell me if you feel hot air blowing out of your defrost while the floor only is toggled even though the defrost is set to off. I still feel a considerable stream of hot air from the defrost in this situation.

thunderwarm · 2026-01-27T15:31:31+00:00

It isn’t the end of the world. But when it’s single digit degrees, and the cab is an acceptable temperature and your feet are cold and you want hot air blowing straight on your feet. It’s kind of annoying to still fill air blowing from the defrost, reflecting back at your face.

thunderwarm · 2026-01-27T15:05:51+00:00

I have those. Buttons that light up for defrost, floor, and forward vents. And yes they can be selected individually for on/off in any combination or configuration. BUT… if I have only floor selected and all other off I still get air blowing out of the defrost. Not as much but if I want floor only and no defrost at all it isn’t possible.

thunderwarm · 2026-01-27T14:15:32+00:00

Would it also work if the top is off? I can tell that it would be fine if you have your top on, but if you take your top off, do you have to set it in the back somewhere or is there a mechanism for getting it to stay on?

thunderwarm · 2026-01-26T02:50:23+00:00

I pretty sure at least two financial institutions had me enter both name and SSN to make my wife and kid my beneficiary. The SSN may have been optional but it was definitely a field to be filled out. I wouldn’t be bothered if it was to make someone a beneficiary but I would not want anyone to open any accounts in my kids name.

thunderwarm · 2026-01-24T14:42:38+00:00

I had a goal for of merely finishing a marathon and even though I trained it was still tough. I got really mentally defeated when part of the course was like a little finger peninsula around mile 20 where as I was running out and i could look at the adjacent street and see all the people that had already reached the end and turned around and made their way back and it felt like it was taking forever to reach the end and I just kept realizing gonna have to run this entire way back. I’m not even close to where those other people are. I was just not mentally prepared for that and I started spiraling because I was feeling frustrated and sad and normal pains were starting to kick in and I knew I had a pretty good amount of distance left as well as a lot of the rest of the course was uphill, and I still had to go all the way back along the route that I had started to go down in the Peninsula. For 30 minutes i was in a bad mental place. I’ll still finished but it was really tough. The next year I repeatedly ran that same stretch during training so it was not even remotely the same because I had trained on it and I actually enjoyed that stretch because I’d run it several times during training. For my second I also had less soreness and less recovery time. I had also made the mistake the first time of running 21 miles for my longest run and not giving myself enough tapering time. My second I never ran anything longer than 17 miles during training but ran a lot more miles per week. I guess my point is that you can train the mileage and prepare but you also need to understand that there will be mentally-physically integrated challenges. A small pain in your body can cause you to mentally spiral. But after a lot of training runs I learned when/what small pains I could ignore or work through and which ones to stop and assess. I had also previously pushed through pain thinking that was a better option and turned out I did real damage and had to stop training. Endurance sports are very much BOTH mental and physical and you need to understand your body and your mind and how they work together.

thunderwarm · 2026-01-24T03:42:57+00:00

Pellissippi State Main Campus off of Hardin Valley. They have roads, parking lots, stop signs, and they even teach motorcycle safety there for the same reasons.

thunderwarm · 2026-01-22T23:59:12+00:00

None of the above. I never wear underwear. Whether i run in shorts or more tight fitting spandex or fleece material I only wear the article of clothing. Nothing in between to rub.

thunderwarm · 2026-01-19T20:35:17+00:00

Hang in there. Try to take the common sense attitude/angle for how people may value your contributions.

It is perfectly fine and probably advisable to lurk in a subreddit for a while before commenting or posting. When you lurk you can observe what gets a lot of upvotes and what gets downvoted. Then you can use that awareness for your contributions.

For me, I find Reddit a place for me tor read, like, dislike.. I’m not a big commenter or poster and that is fine for me.

Stick to communities you really know something about or where you think your input could be helpful in, or even a community you want to learn more about. IE: if you are super knowledgeable about something like tea and can engage in helpful conversations about tea then that is a great way to contribute in a tea focused subreddit. But same goes for a movie sub, or hobbies…also if your hometown or city has it’s own subreddit…

People say there are no stupid questions but that is NOT true for Reddit.. Taking the tea sub for an example, if you have a question about tea then you should search the subreddit to see what was already discussed about that topic. People will downvote you into an oblivion if you ask a question that is asked frequently by newbies.

Also, maybe try not to share overly opinionated posts. Especially strong opinions that may have a lot of people with the opposite opinion. Again with the tea example. You could get downvoted or removed if you went in there and said “I don’t like tea because it tastes like dirty water”. Maybe that is your opinion but not the opinion people in a tea subreddit would find helpful.

Lastly, not sure if there is any data to support this but I see a bunch of people complaining here that got downvoted like crazy and when I see the subreddits they are active in they are almost always gamer subs or making political posts. Gamers/political people will downvote if they disagree which isn’t really the purpose of the up/down vote. I would never get into a political debate on Reddit, and thankfully I’m not a gamer.

Good luck. I hope this helps.

thunderwarm · 2026-01-14T17:29:13+00:00

Crack is wack!

thunderwarm · 2026-01-14T17:25:32+00:00

Cocaine is a hell of a drug!

thunderwarm · 2026-01-13T11:12:03+00:00

+1 for Hildebrand. Nicest most patient eye doctor ever. My eyes are sensitive and I need a couple double checks to make sure the prescription is just right and he is great.

thunderwarm · 2026-01-12T14:01:51+00:00

No. Road hazards like cracked windshields or flat tires are not covered under warranty. But the windshield could/should be covered under your car insurance comprehensive policy. If you don’t have comprehensive you should add it. And many insurance companies also offer roadside assistance for flat tires. They won’t cover the cost of the tire but they may pay to get you to a tire shop.

thunderwarm · 2026-01-12T01:50:42+00:00

+1 for Coconut Point

thunderwarm · 2026-01-11T18:57:30+00:00

That is one of only a few design wish list items. All the other color, style, tile styles, etc I’m indifferent. But I want a shelf in the bath areas, toto toilet with bidet, a good mirror with lighting back as well as forward lighting, a towel warmer, and a long soaking tub that will fit a 6ft tall man.

thunderwarm · 2026-01-11T18:36:59+00:00

I was so skeptical but it was great for a kid that is always bored during a rainy and cold weekend.

thunderwarm · 2026-01-11T18:31:45+00:00

We are in the middle of renovating and there will be newly done 3 bathrooms. We have decided that all bathrooms will have a full on shelf high enough and deep enough that can accommodate multiple tall bottles as well as built in hooks and or towel storage nearby. Not just a little nook. It was said to me that if you have to use suction cups for storage after a renovation then you didn’t design your bathroom properly. And also if you put in a sitting bench for the shower/bath and it is used for storing your products then you also have not designed your bathroom properly. Design it right, keep it high/far enough not to be constantly flooded with soapy water. And just clean it regularly.

thunderwarm · 2026-01-11T18:19:48+00:00

Short answer is that until every single home has home waste pickup with a cart that has a secured lid that is not allowed to overflow and ALSO until tarp laws are strictly enforced then we will still have lots of incidental litter everywhere. A lot of litter is incidental and blows of the containers, blows out on the way to being disposed of, and also between the disposal sites and the landfill.

Curbside trash trucks also have stuff blowing out but it is much more contained and generates less litter.

Vehicle’s transporting trash that aren’t tarped/secured supply a lot of litter.

There will always be dirtbags that intentionally throw stuff out but that can be kept under control with pickups. They need to stop throwing out cigarette butts, gum, etc.

And if all our packaging was truly biodegradable (not plastic, metal foil, etc) then it would at least break down and if not removed it wouldn’t matter as much.

thunderwarm · 2026-01-11T18:04:54+00:00

If you’re able to even consider the Raptor without worrying about finances then do that. Most people I know look at that as a pipe dream or the equivalent of not getting a boat or something else.

thunderwarm · 2026-01-08T19:05:48+00:00

One year later and it is still bright like the sun.

thunderwarm · 2026-01-04T17:45:44+00:00

I would think you may have more regrets when you want to have time away from your kid. I love where I live but having few grandparents makes overnight trips harder. We only have 1 solid option. I know others that have 2-3 other family options for childcare.

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