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swathdiver
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Spent a nice long weekend away. No kids, no dogs, no computer, it was nice to relax with my bride!
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My wife is my bride! LOLDid the wife go also?
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We only get that once every two years or so. Glad you got away. Heidi and I have never lived in a kid, free relationship, so we’re sort of looking forward to that opportunity as they grow all the while trying not to wish their childhood away.
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Well, you said you and your bride then had a pic of ur truck, soooo.... You never know
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Dash Cams.
Since 2019 I've purchased 4 dash cams. The first was an Eachpai X9, then a Pruveo P3 and then two Cobra SC201s. Every camera "died" of the same issue. The camera would stop recording, then record for 11 or 31 or 44 seconds, stop and then start over for several hours. Then a few days later it would start all over again. Scouring the internet never turned up an answer as to why or how this was happening until recently. I thought it was the Florida sun and the failure coincidence was because internally, they were all the same.
It was the memory cards! They get corrupted after time and the camera manufacturers do say to format them periodically. Well, I did that on the camera and the problem did not go away. Now there are videos that explain that the memory must be long formatted on a computer, then formatted on the camera as soon as its installed then all is good for a while. This happened while away this weekend and I used my phone to format the card and got it back working for the ride home.
I have been using various sizes of the Samsung EVO Class 10 micro SD cards. The Cobra cameras came with Western Digital Industrial cards but are too small. I like the storage capacity to be able to drive for a few days in case we see something memorable. Right after I got my first camera, the cops busted a guy right in front of my truck with guns drawn and everything. Thought that I locked that video but was wrong and it was overwritten before we got home.
So from now on we're going to keep an extra card in an SD adapter in the console for when this situation arises. Well, will probably bring a couple of cards for the trip out to Monument Valley in the fall.
I learned this too late to save the earlier cameras, tossed them all in the garbage. I'm usually a pack rat, thinking I can pull the cameras out of them for other projects! Yeah, still have a box of old digital cameras from 20 years ago that I haven't gotten around to yet! LOL
The first Cobra works fine but the built in GPS quit and am not about to take it apart and try and fix it anymore. Still sitting on top of my computer, can't bring myself to throw it into the trash yet!
Since 2019 I've purchased 4 dash cams. The first was an Eachpai X9, then a Pruveo P3 and then two Cobra SC201s. Every camera "died" of the same issue. The camera would stop recording, then record for 11 or 31 or 44 seconds, stop and then start over for several hours. Then a few days later it would start all over again. Scouring the internet never turned up an answer as to why or how this was happening until recently. I thought it was the Florida sun and the failure coincidence was because internally, they were all the same.
It was the memory cards! They get corrupted after time and the camera manufacturers do say to format them periodically. Well, I did that on the camera and the problem did not go away. Now there are videos that explain that the memory must be long formatted on a computer, then formatted on the camera as soon as its installed then all is good for a while. This happened while away this weekend and I used my phone to format the card and got it back working for the ride home.
I have been using various sizes of the Samsung EVO Class 10 micro SD cards. The Cobra cameras came with Western Digital Industrial cards but are too small. I like the storage capacity to be able to drive for a few days in case we see something memorable. Right after I got my first camera, the cops busted a guy right in front of my truck with guns drawn and everything. Thought that I locked that video but was wrong and it was overwritten before we got home.
So from now on we're going to keep an extra card in an SD adapter in the console for when this situation arises. Well, will probably bring a couple of cards for the trip out to Monument Valley in the fall.
I learned this too late to save the earlier cameras, tossed them all in the garbage. I'm usually a pack rat, thinking I can pull the cameras out of them for other projects! Yeah, still have a box of old digital cameras from 20 years ago that I haven't gotten around to yet! LOL
The first Cobra works fine but the built in GPS quit and am not about to take it apart and try and fix it anymore. Still sitting on top of my computer, can't bring myself to throw it into the trash yet!
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Blackstone Labs report came back for the Yukon today. Now we have 5 samples over 5 years and 60K miles.
I noticed something interesting, a trend if you will. The first two samples were with regular Mobil 1 synthetic oil. In June of 2019 we switched off of that and have been using ACDelco's oil since. You can see a definite drop in metals after the switch.
I noticed something interesting, a trend if you will. The first two samples were with regular Mobil 1 synthetic oil. In June of 2019 we switched off of that and have been using ACDelco's oil since. You can see a definite drop in metals after the switch.
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For those interested, the first sample came back for the transmission on the 2013 Sierra. Blackstone's report in a nice way alluded to the transmission oil probably having been changed before, which is great! I've attached the reports from the Yukon's transmission for comparison.
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Purchased an MDI2 from ChinaCarDiags 2 weeks ago. Arrived yesterday. Curiously, they do not show them or the Tech-2 on their website anymore.
The unit was packaged with the OBDII cable and a USB cord. There is an ethernet port. It does not appear to have any WIFI capability. No battery tray.
At present, my only plans in using this is for pass-thru programming. Gotta run some errands, will fire it up and test it out soon.
The unit was packaged with the OBDII cable and a USB cord. There is an ethernet port. It does not appear to have any WIFI capability. No battery tray.
At present, my only plans in using this is for pass-thru programming. Gotta run some errands, will fire it up and test it out soon.
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