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10 hours ago, desertdude said:

Well take solace in the fact you are not the only one who feels this way.

I tried once before and from my original Post you can see I was fully expecting to be shot down and that's exactly what happened. 

So don't expect any different this time round either

 

I am not, not after not seeing the four different feed buttons on the home page as they are shown in this thread. Kudos withdrawn.

ETA- Oh, my bad. It now takes an extra click to get to the home page where the feed buttons are located. Kudos still withdrawn. 

I agree with @Barry about going for electric fans. However, electric fans can be tricky since they have to be built into shrouds to force air through the entire core's surface area. If you can manage that, and provided the electric fan can displace at least the same volume of air as the original viscous fan, your problems should be over. 

4 hours ago, Srikumar said:

But the Car Forum Feed has nothing to do with the offroad club. There are problems that people are facing that they hope to get a solution. Same like a person facing a problem while driving a car on the road. Just because he/she drives a 4x4 doesn't mean they can't ask a question

I don't have a problem with 4x4 drivers asking questions about the workings of their vehicles. I have a problem with the large number of posts announcing who had been promoted to higher levels in the off-road realm. These announcements were beginning to crowd out everything else related to cars, including 4x4's. 

So, kudo's to Carnity Admin for getting this very irritating aspect of the forum under control!  

Congratulations to all members who have recently been promoted to higher levels in the off-road world! 

However, can Carnity Admin not create a dedicated announcement thread/channel/forum for these announcements? I only speak for myself when I say that I do not visit Carnity as often as I used to simply because I don't want to wade through long lists of promotion announcements before I get to something worth reading/discussing. I am, however, reasonably confident that many other members find these announcements clogging up the discussion part of the forum equally irritating. 

So how about it, Admin? 

In a perfect world, we should not have to pay a tad extra to get top-notch work from any garage. But then, we don't live in a perfect world so we often pays our money and takes our chances- written guarantees notwithstanding. 

It's really difficult for me to understand how this problem came about. The vehicle went is for a radiator replacement, and now the PCM is not working? All I can say is that I have removed, rebuilt, and reinstalled many Jeep engines, radiators, and transmissions in my time, and never once have I either destroyed a PCM or any control module in the process, or found that some control module "just stopped working" after a repair.   

It just does not seem right or possible for the mechanic to claim  that the PCM is now faulty after a simple radiator replacement, unless he purposely destroyed it, so if I were in the OP's position, I would sue the shit out of both the mechanic, and if he works for someone, his employer as well.    

The only thing that will break non-Chinese OEM lug bolts is if they are over tightened. The thing to do now would be replace all th lug bolts with OEM bolts, since you will never know if the ones you buy from a scrap yard were also not over tightened at some point in their lives.

If there were no issues with the engine running hot before the coolant change, then the problem is almost certainly related to poor coolant circulation caused by improper purging of air from the cooling system. I would have this looked at first before anything else, but under no circumstances would I lock the fan.  

On 6/26/2020 at 5:33 PM, desertdude said:

Everything would be wasted on a big standard Tazz

True, but only up to a point, that point being excessive amounts of money required for expensive and never-ending repairs.☺️ 

Nice idea this paint, but I think it would be wasted on a bog standard Toyota Tazz...

Maybe I missed something, but did this genius mechanic ever take live data on the actual coolant and/or cylinder head temperatures during the test drives? For all you know, you may just have a bad temp gauge. 

On 5/6/2020 at 9:37 AM, Salarios said:

Technological advancements in automotive manufacturing is reducing production costs and delivery lead times. Thirty years ago, automative plants were 25% automated, today they are more than 75% automated. This has resulted in an increase in factory output of more than 8 times. 

So the expectation is that the electric vehicle revolution will be quicker than the combustion engine revolution. 

Let's just hope then that the construction of power stations will also increase by the same factor. 

10 hours ago, Salarios said:

Very 

There's only about 50yrs of oil left on earth at current production levels, so replacing gas-guzzling cars with electric cars should theoretically be much sooner than that. Also because of massive technological advancements in manufacturing and global distribution. 

Question- advancements in manufacturing and distribution of what? Power stations? 

Well, if you are thinking of retirement, you have to manage your expectations.

I thought that when I retired, I would spend lots of time fishing, touring the African continent, looking after a small zoo on a piece of land I own, and just doing everything everybody dreams about doing in retirement.

None of that happened though. I am busier now that I ever was while working, and I have not fished once in three years- much less toured the continent. Now, I am a full-time freelance writer, I consult with local workshops on difficult diagnostic issues at least five or six times a week, and I have to supervise the two persons I was forced to hire to look after my animals. Retirement? What retirement? 

...and they're trying to replace them all with electric cars. Good luck with that- or at least, good luck with trying to do that in less than about 100 years. 

Don't use anything that was made in China, ever, or for any purpose. Period.

The problem is though that Chinese manufacturers are very good at copying and/or faking packaging, data sheets, and even test reports, so you may not necessarily know that you are installing substandard Chinese fongkong rubbish. Until, of course,what you installed fails prematurely, or you rear end or worse, kill someone because your fake Chinese brake pads faded suddenly.  

On 4/8/2020 at 9:32 AM, Gaurav said:

Totally agree with @Rahimdad comment on check your warranty if car is still under warranty.

@Frederic I hear you and know the reason why you feel this based on couple of news incident. Remember all those failed cruise control were stock OEM cruise control and not aftermarket. So if one in million failure chances are there, then they do exist whether it is OEM or aftermarket. However I totally agree that chance of failure maybe tad higher in aftermarket ones.

But all after market parts has certain level of risk involved, but still everyone goes for it - knowingly or unknowingly.

• Installing aftermarket music system can cook the car in fire due to bad wiring job.
• Installing aftermarket theft control can leave owner stranded - happened with me.
• Installing bigger tires can cause strain on drive line and cause premature failure.
• Highly modifying the car engine can result in serious blast off (fire) or other component failure.
• Adding fan, gauge etc. can also cause small human error or product failure or faulty switch, wire, fuse can cause instant fire.

Let alone aftermarket parts or modification, simple defer maintenance can kill your car in minutes.

@Farooq Zeshaan see if you can afford the OEM cruise control stick from toyota, its better.

Finding OEM from scrapyard is better than aftermarket, just make sure that scrappy remove that stick in front of you, as such electronics parts goes bad due to rough handling and dirty storage.

I hear you, but these types of failures typically do not have the potential to not only kill everyone in the car, but also multiple other innocent road users. 

Cruise control systems, even OEM systems, are inherently unreliable and therefore dangerous, so fiddling with an already potentially dangerous system by installing aftermarket, or even used OEM components is a really, really, bad idea. 

44 minutes ago, desertdude said:

More than that do you know how to read such a lab report?

They will just tell you what you have in your oil and how much of it. 

This is true- labs will not analyse the results for you, so you need to know what the numbers mean both in relation to each other, and to min/max allowable limits/levels as published by the oil formulator(s) and/or regulatory bodies. Generally speaking, only lubication engineers and industrial chemists know what the results mean in these contexts.

As for laymen, the best you can hope for is to have the lab tell you that the quick lube joint you paid to change your oil used mineral oil when they should have used synthetic. 

23 hours ago, Rahimdad said:

My question is If you add a supercharger will the time pass any quicker.

Probably not, but you might have to change the watchs' battery more regularly- like everyday or something. 

$280 000? And they can't put numbers on the face? Honestly, how much extra could that cost?  

On 4/4/2020 at 10:22 PM, desertdude said:

Still won't do It's a Jeep you need a fan at least this big

 

These fans work really well, but you want to have its balance checked first to prevent it screwing up your water pump. 

I'm with @desertdude, I have no problem with our lockdown because I hate crowds- which for me, is equal to three people closer to me than I could throw a brick. 

On 4/9/2020 at 6:31 PM, Barry said:

That’s an ambassador? Pretty cool but it will make it into production, way too radical. 

It's not just too radical- it's also as ugly as f*^k.

15 hours ago, Barry said:

I’ve heard that alcohol kills the corona virus so I’ve decided to make an experiment and consume as much as possible tonight for the benefit of all humanity and share the results with carnity. It will either go spectacularly right or spectacularly wrong. Will update with results. 

I would gladly have joined you in this very worthwhile experiment, but sadly, I developed an allergy to alcohol a few years ago so the fate of all humanity is your hands. 

On 3/17/2020 at 1:58 PM, Gaurav said:

Add a rated D shackle for 50 Dhs from Ace Hardware.

And create a massive, high-speed projectile when the fabricated tow hook separates from the towed vehicle during a high-stress pull?