I have a 16 year old Dodge truck. I like it a lot, but if I ever meet the engineers that decided the TIPM was superior to a fuse block, we're going to have a very heated conversation. I am just giving up on ever getting these stupid headlights to function properly, and I'm going to run a bypass circuit to get them operational.
Related, does anyone know if a H13 bulb will survive running low beams and high beams at the same time? Or do the low beams need to be switched off when the high beams come on?
In reply to bigeyedfish :
I had to look up TIPM.
You need to clobber that engineer with a big stick.
Duke said:
In reply to Appleseed :
Also, how are you feeling, man?
Fine. About an hour before I was released, I thought they pumped me full of drugs again. Zero pain. Nope. All on my own. Been fine since
In reply to Duke :
Now if we could just get rid of the other crotch pain.
Just noticed this. I have see this in the past, making a post due to the number of pages achieved.
But I have read some battles on here.....
bigeyedfish said:
I have a 16 year old Dodge truck. I like it a lot, but if I ever meet the engineers that decided the TIPM was superior to a fuse block, we're going to have a very heated conversation. I am just giving up on ever getting these stupid headlights to function properly, and I'm going to run a bypass circuit to get them operational.
Related, does anyone know if a H13 bulb will survive running low beams and high beams at the same time? Or do the low beams need to be switched off when the high beams come on?
There are a lot of reasons why the TIPM's concept is a good one, as it eliminates a whole lot of extraneous modules, relays, and wires.
Like Honda's MICU, though, or any other manufacturer's fancy body control module/fusebox combo, it tends to have issues from time to time.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
It's a cool concept for sure. It'd be a lot cooler if they weren't so berkeleying expensive and hard to diagnose.
Vehicular engineers ain't even worth pissing on if they were on fire..
In reply to Ranger50 :
That's a lot of work just to change the bumper fluid...
Yesterday, Mrs. VCH calls me at work and says she stepped on a piece of wire fence, it went through her boot, and she's in severe pain and laying down. We go to the Urgent care last night, they x-ray, extract metal debris from an inch deep in her foot, and send her home with a foot numbed from the local and a script for antibiotics.
This morning, her foot's Ok to drive, so she takes the kids to their weekly gym class that starts today. I just get a text 3 minutes ago with this:
She said it knocked the mudflap up, she didn't see what she hit but it sure was a thing. So now I gotta go change her tire, since she's barely mobile on her aerated foot.
In reply to volvoclearinghouse :
"If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all..."
tuna55
MegaDork
9/7/23 9:04 a.m.
In reply to volvoclearinghouse :
Booo!
wae
PowerDork
9/7/23 9:25 a.m.
A little over a year ago, my wife quit her job with the state and went to work for a nursing facility. She didn't like the way the state treated people, everything was very regimented, policies and procedures were all created at the top by people that were either elected officials or appointed by elected officials and have zero experience or knowledge of how the department's day-to-day works.
After being at the nursing facility for a few months, she wanted to quit and go back to the state. She didn't like the fact that the nursing facility didn't give her constant feedback and she wasn't friends with her co-workers (it wasn't unfriendly, they just weren't the go-hang-out-together types). I told her that whatever she wanted to do she should do, but all the things she hated about the state weren't going to change.
So she went back to the state.
And now, a few months later, it's all rage about how she doesn't like the way the state treated people, everything is very regimented, policies and procedures are all created at the top by people that are either elected officials or appointed by elected officials and have zero experience or knowledge of how the department's day-to-day works.
And if I say "I told you so" that, apparently, makes me the shiny happy person.
In reply to volvoclearinghouse :
And this is what passes for a spare, to a GM engineer.
Mrs VCH was very pleased with the response time of her on-call roadside assistance (me). From first call to tire changed in under 45 minutes.
EDIT: and the local Chevy dealer has the tire in stock, same price as Tire Rack. *thumbs up*
Recon1342 said:
In reply to volvoclearinghouse :
"If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all..."
Hey, on the bright side, we've got tire chains now!
In reply to volvoclearinghouse :
Wrong way to go about it, bud... LoL
It's probably more common than I think, but switched grounds are stupid. I have been trying to figure out how the hell I have 12 volts at the high beam and low beam side of this connector at the same time and continuity from ground pin to neg. battery terminal but no lights. Honestly, I still don't understand it. I gave up and wired the low beams to come on with the fog light switch since the high beams would cancel it when they were needed. If I had drawn it out on paper, I would have realized it was a stupid idea and I would have high and low together or neither at all. Well, that's what happened. Can't have that.
Next step is to put the high beams on a dash switch, which won't cancel the low beams when it comes on, but at least I won't have all or nothing anymore. So I'll have lows on the fog light switch (also turns on the tail lights) and highs on an aux switch. If I ever loan somebody this vehicle they're going to realize I'm a hack and a cheapskate. Most people know that I'm one or the other, but not many people know that I'm both.
Called the local Chevy dealer, they said yep, we got 4 of those tires, we'll put your name on one and hold it for you. This was at 10am.
Had a 4 hour long meeting.
2:30pm, stop at said dealership. They do not have the tire pulled for me, and, in fact, do not have any of that tire. Nearest place that does is 15 miles away. So now I'm embarking on a 30 mile road trip.
And I haven't had lunch yet, so I'm waiting for a taco right now.
In reply to bigeyedfish :
That is where its helpful to have worked on Datsuns in the 70's. Lots of switched grounds there.
It's done very commonly now. Injectors are powered, with a pulsed ground. Lots of solenoids are the same way. Just remember that you can stop the flow of water at the faucet, or by closing the spray nozzle...
About a month ago my Mom had a fall. She was in pain, but it's not like she can communicate (dementia) and X-rays showed nothing. But she wasn't getting better, so I brought her in for a ct scan at lunchtime today. The tech came out and said, I hope you don't have plans... she has a hip fracture and is being admitted with a likely transfer to a specialty hospital tomorrow for surgery. So I've been sitting with her since lunchtime. Fortunately she's been sleeping the whole time
wae
PowerDork
9/7/23 4:32 p.m.
In reply to Peabody :
She's very fortunate to have a loved one to sit with her. Here's hoping for the best for her.
Not really a rant, but bad news....
My dad passed today. Nobody here has met him, as far as I know (maybe Pat did, but I don't think so), BUT he is why I am on this board. He was a car guy through and through. First brand new car he bought was a 1959 Alfa Romeo Giuletta Spider Veloce. He had a love-hate relationship with it- as it was pretty fragile, but he loved that car. After that was Lotus Elan, Barracuda, and Corvette before going family oriented driving.
Before he bought his next sports car, an '88 MR2, he bought me a '77 Alfetta GT for school. And that started me down the path of being an Alfisti.
He ended up having an '88 Alfa Spider that he didn't drive too much- but he really enjoyed getting it after we got active in AROC.
As a kid, we used to go up to Mid-Ohio to watch SCCA races, which was really fun, and before that, he went up to see CAN-Am races a few times.
Celebrate that he was a car guy, and that's all. I'm very, very fortunate to have had him as my dad. He was 90.
In reply to alfadriver :
There are no words. My condolences to you and your family.
Outstanding that he could pass the love of cars to you.
