@spicytuna62 Yep, happens with my tires every fall, without fail.
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I live in Taiwan and it's been 90-95 since February.
Get an air pump that runs off your car battery. Don't get a jump/pump as those are more expensive and they break. Get one with a flashlight.
It's one of those cheap purchases that makes a world of difference.
we top ours up at tireween and tirester every year
Happy tireween to you too.
nice to have a low pressure holiday.
Do you mean the time of year where a battery cell goes bad, ruining both the battery and the alternator while you have an Uber passenger in the car an hour from home and every system in your car is cartoonishly shutting off one by one?
Because YEP I GUESS IT'S ABOUT THAT TIME. :(
Chances are that the alternator was already bad, but symptoms didn’t manifest until the battery started to die. A running car should be able to stay alive purely from the alternator. It’s not a great long term solution, since it causes extra wear on the alternator. But it is possible to just push-start it and then keep it alive with the alternator alone.
But it is possible to just push-start it and then keep it alive with the alternator alone.
can confirm. had a buddy in HS whose car had neither a starter nor a working battery. every day after everyone left the parking lot, he would have us push his car over to the street on top of a hill, and then he'd clutch start it on the way down. we only had to push it back up the hill a couple times when he was learning how to do it.
Isn't it great how cars just have like random lights that come on whose design is so ambiguous that there's no possible chance you could work out what they're trying to indicate.
My car occasionally displays a blue tick, what the hell is that supposed to mean? It only comes up maybe once every 4 or 5 months so it's really hard to work out a pattern.
I thought this was some bent over woman sign
The dot being her dot
The line being the groove of her spine
The symbol meaning get laid
My car occasionally displays a blue tick, what the hell is that supposed to mean? It only comes up maybe once every 4 or 5 months so it's really hard to work out a pattern.
I got the same issue with my BMW, except it's a green arrow pointing either left or right that flashes and makes a ticking sound. Only lasts for a few seconds though.
Oh that sounds like the swerve suddenly into another lane without looking light.
4-5 month is an awfully long time to be too lazy to rtfm
I mean, I agree it's silly design, but come on
Ten seconds to search. It's either low engine temp (don't rev high), or he's driving with high beams on.
It's like hearing observational comedy from 30 years ago, before you could google what a light was
I just got a used Cadillac and it has this little blue icon quite frequently. Had to get out the manual. It means I'm driving over the speed limit. Fuck's sake what a useless light.
I used to drive a Sprinter, and on the dashboard was a light with iconography of waves, wind, and raindrops. I concluded that it was warning me of a storm at sea.
You should read your car's manual.
It's spends half the time telling you stuff you already know like how to open the engine bay.
They should just have a section called "all the bloody stupid decisions we've made" and just put the explanation in there, because that's the only bit anyone will ever need to read.
oh, like a changelog manual. That'd be useful.
Dont you have the manual? I did buy a used car and it had manual
I bought a used car and it had not just the manual, but the original sales offer to the Estonian government (a specific department of it that I won't name because that's too specific). And this was a pre-EUR one, to give you an estimate of how long it's been in the glove compartment.
But in general it's been hit and miss for manuals with used cars. Sometimes I've looked them up online, but not all are easily found.
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It doesn't sound like a bad thing. But I suppose that raises the question of wether something has gone wrong when there isn't a blue tick
Is that the symbol for a cauldron? I don't get it
I don't own any horse shoes.
Its a low tire pressure light.
In the fall, lower temperatures cause tire pressure to drop.
I just checked my tires, somehow only lost 0-1 psi per tire since April. I did check them on a hot day so that probably helped.
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