Where did all the NEPOCers go?
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P/S fluid was right on the 'full' mark which has me confused. I couldn't identify the source of the leak in the daylight. With the car at idle there is no assist but reving the engine gives me a little help.
The dealer is looking at it now since it will be covered by the extended warranty (hopefully). They're also gonna look at my sticky e-brake.
I'm driving an 07 Mazda6 for the day. Not bad for a slush-o-matic. I'm digging the telescoping steering wheel cause my legs are always longer than my arms.
The dealer is looking at it now since it will be covered by the extended warranty (hopefully). They're also gonna look at my sticky e-brake.
I'm driving an 07 Mazda6 for the day. Not bad for a slush-o-matic. I'm digging the telescoping steering wheel cause my legs are always longer than my arms.
Verdict is in. P/S pump and return line has to be replaced. Parts will be in tomorrow morning and I can pick up the car tomorrow afternoon.
They claim the e-brake was set too tight and the entire brake system needs to be cleaned out for everything to work properly...at a tune of $190...not covered by warranty. Forget that. I'll just deal with it until the weather warms up. I highly doubt the setting on the e-brake (that set-screw on the back I imagine) has anything to do with this...since I replaced the rotors/pads over a year ago. Perhaps they will have a different answer tomorrow morning when they go to move the car and the e-brake won't budge...but I doubt it.
They claim the e-brake was set too tight and the entire brake system needs to be cleaned out for everything to work properly...at a tune of $190...not covered by warranty. Forget that. I'll just deal with it until the weather warms up. I highly doubt the setting on the e-brake (that set-screw on the back I imagine) has anything to do with this...since I replaced the rotors/pads over a year ago. Perhaps they will have a different answer tomorrow morning when they go to move the car and the e-brake won't budge...but I doubt it.
Well, I had some P/S assist as long as I was above 1000 rpms. It wasn't too bad w/o the assist but you gotta be moving if you expect to turn the wheel.
Wanna know how P/S works?
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/steering4.htm
I'm guessing that with my car, the relief valve malfunctioned when I was accellerating and caused a build up of pressure and then a backfire that overloaded the return line...and now the relief valve is broken and it will only build up pressure under high rpms.
I would blame the cold on this...but I was driving for 15 minutes before it happened.
Wanna know how P/S works?
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/steering4.htm
I'm guessing that with my car, the relief valve malfunctioned when I was accellerating and caused a build up of pressure and then a backfire that overloaded the return line...and now the relief valve is broken and it will only build up pressure under high rpms.
I would blame the cold on this...but I was driving for 15 minutes before it happened.
did anyone catch the A-Team yesterday? It was one of the most ridiculous episodes with one of the most ridiculous sequences of events that I have ever seen.
First, by digging through from the end of their mine shaft to the end of the bad guys' mine shaft to find out what they are up to, they discover that the bad guys are hiding an armored truck (van) full of gold in there. They want to take the gold so they can swap it with the bad guys to get their friend back but according to hannibal it would be ridiculous for the 4 of them to move all the gold through the hole, into the other mine shaft into a waiting vehicle, they simply didnt have the manpower to move it all in just one night. The solution? They buried the gold right there in the bad guys' mine shaft under some dirt and THEN.......they dismantled THE ENTIRE truck using various tools including a torch, and buried every component of the truck in random locations around the mine shaft. Every single piece of it.
and that wasnt even the worst/best part!!!!!!!
of course their grand plan failed just shy of making their elaborate escape and so they wound up all captured by the bad guys. And of course the bad guys decided that the best course of action would be to keep the A Team and their companions in the bad guy mine shaft for 1 hour until they tell them where they have hidden the gold. They very specifically state 1 hour and hannibal even requests 2 hours but is denied. So down in the mine shaft they try to come up with a plan, and what do they decide to do? you guessed it......RE-ASSEMBLE THE ENTIRE VEHICLE (with armor and stuff of course)
1 hour.
They had ONE HOUR. And they dug up every single piece of the vehicle and built the entire vehicle, including welding panels back together...in one hour. they had even disassembled the engine. To give you some idea of how dismantled this was; a single valve cover was buried in one hole with a hubcap, some random springs and other parts.
ONE HOUR
First, by digging through from the end of their mine shaft to the end of the bad guys' mine shaft to find out what they are up to, they discover that the bad guys are hiding an armored truck (van) full of gold in there. They want to take the gold so they can swap it with the bad guys to get their friend back but according to hannibal it would be ridiculous for the 4 of them to move all the gold through the hole, into the other mine shaft into a waiting vehicle, they simply didnt have the manpower to move it all in just one night. The solution? They buried the gold right there in the bad guys' mine shaft under some dirt and THEN.......they dismantled THE ENTIRE truck using various tools including a torch, and buried every component of the truck in random locations around the mine shaft. Every single piece of it.
and that wasnt even the worst/best part!!!!!!!
of course their grand plan failed just shy of making their elaborate escape and so they wound up all captured by the bad guys. And of course the bad guys decided that the best course of action would be to keep the A Team and their companions in the bad guy mine shaft for 1 hour until they tell them where they have hidden the gold. They very specifically state 1 hour and hannibal even requests 2 hours but is denied. So down in the mine shaft they try to come up with a plan, and what do they decide to do? you guessed it......RE-ASSEMBLE THE ENTIRE VEHICLE (with armor and stuff of course)
1 hour.
They had ONE HOUR. And they dug up every single piece of the vehicle and built the entire vehicle, including welding panels back together...in one hour. they had even disassembled the engine. To give you some idea of how dismantled this was; a single valve cover was buried in one hole with a hubcap, some random springs and other parts.
ONE HOUR
haha thast hilarious.
Man i grew up watching the A-Team, i thought they were awesome when i was a kid.
I blame it on 3rd world country television. During vacation they had our mornings filled up with Action Packed shows like : Knight Rider, followed by the A-Team. 1 hour break and we got MacGyver and a small break and we had Baywatch. With Saved by the bell thrown in there for good measure.
Man i grew up watching the A-Team, i thought they were awesome when i was a kid.
I blame it on 3rd world country television. During vacation they had our mornings filled up with Action Packed shows like : Knight Rider, followed by the A-Team. 1 hour break and we got MacGyver and a small break and we had Baywatch. With Saved by the bell thrown in there for good measure.
airwolf is awesome. by far the best. I have seasons 1 and 2 on DVD and regularly name PCs here at work after the characters/actors. LOVE that show. Actually I have the theme song as my ring tone on my phone.
there was gratuitous gunplay in the a-team episode of course. I failed to mention that as they came out of the mine shaft in their 1 hour tank machine, face had somehow out of van parts and dirt managed to rig up a flame thrower (as usual) which he toasted everyone with. Earlier in the episode however when murdock was about to be hung, hannibal and face came busting in with their guns blazing. The only thing they hit was the rope he was hanging from...no people.
Its actually the one aspect of these tv shows that bothers me now that I am older, how they dont shoot anyone. I always preferred airwolf but dont remember noticing when I was little that while the a-team never shoots anyone, stringfellow and dominic sometimes do shoot people and certainly kill them often with "rockets" and other armaments. I was always ok with macgyver not shooting anyone since he doesnt believe in guns...but for the elite military fighting unit of tough guys and their trunk-o-AKs to never hit someone is a little lame.
there was gratuitous gunplay in the a-team episode of course. I failed to mention that as they came out of the mine shaft in their 1 hour tank machine, face had somehow out of van parts and dirt managed to rig up a flame thrower (as usual) which he toasted everyone with. Earlier in the episode however when murdock was about to be hung, hannibal and face came busting in with their guns blazing. The only thing they hit was the rope he was hanging from...no people.
Its actually the one aspect of these tv shows that bothers me now that I am older, how they dont shoot anyone. I always preferred airwolf but dont remember noticing when I was little that while the a-team never shoots anyone, stringfellow and dominic sometimes do shoot people and certainly kill them often with "rockets" and other armaments. I was always ok with macgyver not shooting anyone since he doesnt believe in guns...but for the elite military fighting unit of tough guys and their trunk-o-AKs to never hit someone is a little lame.
Mazda sent the wrong P/S pump. Now I won't get my car back until tomorrow (which means I'll have to trek my ass over to Norwood in the snow because the warranty probably won't cover the car for an additional day).
At least the Mazda6 is relatively fun to drive. It feels like it needs a sway bar in the front. It really likes to dive into corners compared to my P5. I also find the 1st gear utterly useless. 1st might be good for drag racing starts but for every day cruising it is rougher than me driving a manual. Putting it in manual mode and switching to 2nd makes it start nice and smooth but if you wait to long at a stop sign it will bump it back to 1st. In auto-mode it likes to sit in 6th gear which is fine for flat surfaces but on my hilly commute it is constantly switching between 4th, 5th and 6th when 4th would do just fine. Seat is comfortable and I'm loving the telecoping steering wheel. Radio sucks...but that is expected.
At least the Mazda6 is relatively fun to drive. It feels like it needs a sway bar in the front. It really likes to dive into corners compared to my P5. I also find the 1st gear utterly useless. 1st might be good for drag racing starts but for every day cruising it is rougher than me driving a manual. Putting it in manual mode and switching to 2nd makes it start nice and smooth but if you wait to long at a stop sign it will bump it back to 1st. In auto-mode it likes to sit in 6th gear which is fine for flat surfaces but on my hilly commute it is constantly switching between 4th, 5th and 6th when 4th would do just fine. Seat is comfortable and I'm loving the telecoping steering wheel. Radio sucks...but that is expected.
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chuyler1 said:
cool, a car repair update and car review all in one post!!
chris, i had over 87K on my wires and i didn't need to change them
