Message from @Fitzydog

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2018-07-13 20:30:28 UTC  

Provided I can even get it to do that.

2018-07-13 20:30:36 UTC  

It isn't doing it reliably

2018-07-13 20:30:54 UTC  

Since I installed my SRI a few days ago, it has done it exactly twice.

2018-07-13 20:31:05 UTC  

And after specifically trying to get it to do so, it refuses to.

2018-07-13 20:40:19 UTC  

has it only done it since the sri?

2018-07-13 21:07:03 UTC  

Nope. It's been doing this since I got the car

2018-07-13 21:07:16 UTC  

Would have turned me off from it but with my budget it was the best option lol

2018-07-13 21:11:57 UTC  

weird

2018-07-13 21:14:02 UTC  

A lot of shit on this car seems to be made out of rubber, so it seems to start getting eaten away after about 75k miles

2018-07-13 21:14:07 UTC  

Like the PCV valves.

2018-07-13 21:14:10 UTC  

Both rubber

2018-07-13 21:14:28 UTC  

And the engine has a habit of eating them. Literally they get ingested into the intake and eaten

2018-07-13 21:16:29 UTC  

Pick up the metal universal PCV from AutoZone or wherever

2018-07-13 21:17:26 UTC  

I might just do that.

2018-07-13 21:17:32 UTC  

It's past the warranty date anyway

2018-07-13 22:07:55 UTC  

does your car have a timing belt?

2018-07-13 22:16:21 UTC  

I don't believe so.

2018-07-14 22:41:24 UTC  

A few people pointed it out in the comments, but this really isn't very accurate

2018-07-14 22:42:03 UTC  

In a country like America, which has massively open roads, the vast majority of it unlit at night with cars a far distance from each other, red turn signals are preferable

2018-07-14 22:42:12 UTC  

It's not ambiguous. I see blinky from right hand side, I know it's turning right. Easy peasy.

2018-07-14 22:42:17 UTC  

Exactly

2018-07-14 22:42:31 UTC  

From a long distance, a hybrid brake/signal light is far safer

2018-07-14 22:42:50 UTC  

Hell, I've seen practically *white* signals from 'yellow' lamps (Lookin at you Honda/Acura)

2018-07-14 22:43:04 UTC  

I've been thrown off more than once by cars with yellow turn signals.

2018-07-14 22:43:15 UTC  

I literally could not see them because the car was braking

2018-07-15 02:36:08 UTC  

well that's weird, because I've never had that problem

2018-07-15 02:41:22 UTC  

Some cars are worse about it than others. Also depends on conditions, etc.

2018-07-15 02:51:50 UTC  

well yeah, hence it seems like a rather circumstantional issue

2018-07-15 02:53:14 UTC  

I've been thrown off by cars with 'blinking brake lights' in the middle of the day. Never understood the sense of having the indicator embedded in the brake light / using the same colour

2018-07-15 03:17:39 UTC  

I think all the brake lights blinking when the pedal pressure is high (indicating hard braking) would be useful, especially on the interstate

2018-07-15 03:18:57 UTC  

yeah, been thinking that for a decade or so

2018-07-15 03:19:13 UTC  

the human eye catches blinking lights better than a light going from 'off' to 'on' just once

2018-07-15 03:19:23 UTC  

I've seen them start to show up on higher-end cars

2018-07-15 03:20:38 UTC  

brake lights should blink rapidly and indicators should cycle in the direction the person wants to turn (eg four LEDs cycling left to right if turning right)

Although I'd hate to be the person who has to change an indicator in the future, though

2018-07-15 03:22:23 UTC  

I suppose you could offer them as a 'set' and if they become more ubiquitous then the price different wouldn't be that much in the end

But I suspect each and every car company would have their own setup, which would mean the customer is even more tied to dealer service centres to get 'simple' things like a mere light change done

2018-07-15 03:25:56 UTC  

You can do it with aftermarket replacement relays. They already have them for emergency vehicles

2018-07-15 03:51:46 UTC  
2018-07-15 04:17:05 UTC  

Let’s be honest, though, the real assholes when it comes to lights of any sort are the douches with lifted trucks and xenon lights.

2018-07-15 04:22:10 UTC  

Because I love getting blinded right at eye level by oncoming traffic