P-0307; the final repair bill
From : Annonymous
Q: ive finally decided to bite the bullet and buy myself a new obd-ii code reader. ive looked at a few models on the web and am leaning toward the innova/equus canobd-ii model 3110. does anybody here have anything good or bad to say about this one im also a bit confused about the can protocol. it appears that dc introduced this on some 04 models and frankly i figure that since im not likely to buy another scanner this decade its worth the small upcharge to include this feature since its going to be required on all cars soon. can anybody point me to a source of information as to which dc models use can and what it is good for thanks. .
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From : Annonymous
so trains are a massively utilised transport form in america today yeah right! as i said travel isnt always based on best efficiency or lowest cost. you claimed a train wasnt the least costly or the most efficient and both were proven as assests of rail travel. yeah right. if you miss out most of the costs that i have included yes. if you happen to live and your destination is within walking distance of the station as well yes. otherwise only if you travel alone and in your dreams. in my example the car is only marginally more expensive than train if it carries only one person on the journey. what costs did you add that i did not none. your costs for car travel of 220 miles miles in the uk sounds odd to me..... are roughly 30 which seem low given the amount of fuel needed to travel that distance. however with your cost for parking you spend 60 vs. the train at 65. car pooling dewfinitely helps your example. im sure if i added three others to defray my costs i too could do the philly /dc run at about $15 total per person. however if you had 100 people to move cars would not be the efficient way to do it. once again you are putting personal cost above efficiency which is fine but it does not take away from the efficiency of the train. well you could say that most journies and methods of work could be modified to become more efficient. more home working for instance. it does not improve the maths for when you have to travel though. since your fuel is so much cheaper than ours i think the math works out even more favourably for the car where you are. sadly no it does not. my example was pretty clear. again you are arguing cost to the commuter rather than efficiency of mode of travel. trains are more efficient at moving large numbers of people than autos. if people were willing to spend a bit more and get a bit more service in return rail travel would become more popular. but again popularity is not a measure of efficiency. -- max there are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty soap ballot jury and ammo. please use in that order. -ed howdershelt author max dodge wrote no. the carriages of a train are much heavier in relation to payload compared to a five seater family car and a fully occupied family car will be more economical per passenger mile. even with tax rebated fuel and a massive government subsidy on top it is cheaper for five people to travel by car than by train. carriage weight has nothing to do with efficiency. a train is more efficient due to the roadbed and lack of rolling resistance. also a factor is the number of passengers per unit. a car hold six at best while a train is unlimited to a large degree. for me to travel from philadelphia to washington d.c. i must pay for fuel which would be approximately $15 assuming traffic was good. parking in d.c. would cost me $20 for the day if i was lucky. travel time would be four hours or so costing roughly $100 in productive time depending on pay rate/salary. meanwhile a ticket for amtrak would cost $40-$55 for a two hour ride. during the ride i could do paperwork or relax. so trains are a massively utilised transport form in america today yeah right! even with our fuel costs in the uk today and with a massively subsidised railway network it would cost only four people 7.50 each to travel the 220 miles to london. it would cost 55 each by train. parking in london would cost 30 per day while it would cost 10 at the train station but i would need to travel a 80 mile round trip by car to reach the station and come home on top. train 55*4=220 plus two days parking at 10 = 20 is a total of 240 plus getting to and from the station. car 30 and 60 parking = 90 total. that is a 150 saving for four people by car. i do not cost the depreciation and other costs for the car because it is needed to get to the station anyhow. three passengers can relax and do the paperwork while in the car and there are no drunken louts or other distractions to contend with. note i did not include the cost of maintaining the vehicle nor its purchase price. train seems cheaper to me. yeah right. if you miss out most of the costs that i have included yes. if you happen to live and your destination is within walking distance of the station as well yes. otherwise only if you travel alone and in your dreams. in my example the car is only marginally more expensive than train if it carries only one person on the journey. there are other issues that come into play with intercity travel though such as congestion of the roads which may make the train more practical and timely but for most who travel outside london the train is almost irrellevant and a 19th century anachronism. that is why most non commuter train lines shut down many moons ago. their route is even less flexible than a service bus. perhaps if conserving fuel is an issue those who wish to conserve
From : nosey
none@nowhere.com says... on sun 29 jan 2006 180530 -0000 alan lehun try@reply.to wrote current average productivity in the european automotive industry is about 66 cars per employee per year. how do the states compare ill bite on this claim as soon as you provide a cite that explains the claim. you are right to question my claim. apparently its only 61 cars per employee per year. http//www.manufacturingtalk.com//woa/woa101.html i guarantee you mercedes production is far less more like 20 employees per car per year. this may be true but not entirely relevant to the health of the american and european automotive industries which are far more dependant on the high volume manufacturers/models. if you are including pieces of shit of lesser quality than american made cars such as the honda accord than of course the number made would be higher than honda. the honda accord is a big seller and is therefore important. i wasnt having a dig or anything. the productivity figure is important in understanding the business forces that dictate where cars are made although there are of course many others. the large number of japanese manufacturers in europe is a direct result of protectionist policies set in place which limited the number of japanese imports. the japanese of course didnt let a little thing like that stop them. although japanese productivity is iirc over 90 cars pepy it is also true to say that europes current impressive figures are a direct result of the japanese coming here. without some data your claims are useless. ive given you a recent press release of the world market research report. http//www.ftmastering.com/mmo/mmo071.htm will give some historical data which might scare you. in 1999 toyota were doing well with 31 cpepy. ive also just found http//www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfmobjectid=ff0566ba-5056-9f06- 99814ef979b2cb50&method=display http//tinyurl.com/8wv9b which provides some us figures that i was looking for. average 47.7 but some plants higher than 70 including the ford plant in hapeville ga. at 102. wow. ************************* dave -- alan lehun .
From : Annonymous
agreed but dc isnt just a german company. decisions made in stuttgart affect manufacturing plants here. thus no matter who makes the decisions it is a pleasant change to see that inefficient management is being cut just as inefficient labor normally is. -- max there are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty soap ballot jury and ammo. please use in that order. -ed howdershelt author the problem here max is this is a german company. i am talking about the american companies that lay off 500 workers and then give the ceo a 10000000 salary increase and bonuses for raising the profit margin. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving actually tbone look at what zeitsche is about to do at dc...... cut management jobs. -- max there are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty soap ballot jury and ammo. please use in that order. -ed howdershelt author no its about getting america to get off its lard butt and take back its industry but that would mean unions taking wage cuts and the epa being told to shut up and suck on a pine tree. how about we cut your pension or however you get paid. im so sick of hearing cut the employees wages as part of the cure all end all. who the hell here can afford a pay cut and the funny thing here is that all of these pay cuts come from the workers never from the owners or upper management. perhaps if the salaries of these big execs were brought back into reality we would also be far more competitive but god forbid that ever happens. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .
From : nosey
in cold weather the tranny in a 97 2500 diesel is sluggish getting started. a dealer told the owner something like the problem is a valve that is draining down the fluid when turned off and it has to pump the fluid up. any idea what this is about how much would this cost to fix yep - its called a converter drain-back valve or anti-drainback valve. its located on the transmission cooler line near the radiator passenger side - look for the tranny cooler lines. it should be fairly inexpensive to change out as its just a one-way check valve. your friend could also just idle for a few seconds in neutral which is also a pretty good idea for the engine too 12v engines should be allowed a short warm-up cycle before driving off. this will fill the converter up and eliminate the sluggishness. .
From : Annonymous
sounds like you are an expert what type of paint would you select for painting this van. thanks clyde i am not an expert -- we had no money and i worked for sewers and they distributed used paint once a year on a saturday for $1-3 a gallon -- i helped so mine was free grabbed all the enamel i was allowed i have talked to a few people about painting my van still original paint -- got it in alberta but has rusted so badly my son calls it the girraffe so use some chromium primer first once you have got all the rust out that has probably crept down from the roof on a newer van if you want it to last undercoat it and i myself would use army paint farm paint or maintenance machine paint -- price would be the factor for me but you probably have some money so get what you like -- doesnt matter they are all overkill -- but i would be partial to army paint because if you ever sell it the hunters will love it. and i would put a couple of rear convex mirrors on it a conversion roof to suit your needs since you have a rusty one id replace it unless you are a hobbit but if i was going to that trouble id get a class 3 hitch winch and also move up to 4x4 since im impartial to them ;- -- great backwoods camper even if it has a full time commercial job -- and great for moving sheds and broken down trucks i have decided to get the shed 77 gmc 350 van out of hibernation for a while -- had to use it again to push the 86 d150 home again -- ontario plates -- yes it was not properly licenced but that has never stopped me yet -- i know it is a gm but i am starting to wonder if the d150 needs a more serious job -- my ex suggested there may be engine parts missing for all we know and i am not going to pay for this -- if it needs that much work i am going in myself come spring and i cant wait that long for transportation rach .
From : rt
on fri 27 jan 2006 110031 -0500 rachel easson rske@sympatico.ca wrote check out this british video http//www.exn.ca/video/video=exn20040414-towbike.asx budd yabbut does it have heated leather seats mike now mike youre not talking to that eastern wabbit you should say that correctly . . .try again . . .yea budd !!!!! yea budd!!! does a goldwing come with heated seats i ride american brands now and real riders dont need them. just ask beekeeper. budd eastern wabbit just stuff a couple of warm rabbits up your pants falling apart at the gut rach i thought that game was played with ferrits beekeep how would you know that greg budd hey dont ask -- eac to his won hey rachel in this group darn little is off limits for comment by 900% of the group . . .just to give you fair warning. btw welcome to the second most rednecked group on the internet the other group still thinks logging on is adding wood to a fire good one but not original . . i stole it. no problem -- worked with truckers out west then the sewer crew i calgary i affectionally nicknamed the shit-disturbers which stuck bfmfg and married a mechanic lived with an wreckers parts mgr. common-law love real-men hands drink beer etc. you get the point rach i know the type. ive been a heavy equipment mechanic truck driver sewage technician roto rooter and for a city but found both jobs just a little bit too crappy sergeant in a dump truck platoon taxicab driver janitor small engine mechanic instructor for the handicapped carpenter stonemason millwright physcal plant maintenance manager artist and author. p.s. i had thought i had made a coment about eating the rabbits so they cant talk skinning the fur and making a bunny outfit for feb 14 for the missus -- could keep the warm fury rabbits on the cheeks with pins until he sits on them grn -- heard of a recipe called pressed duck remember a joke about scots and velcro to keep the sheep in the welly boots.. yes i can say that easson is scottish and also 1/2 irish heck youre not as confused as i am . . .scottish moved during an invasion by the brits to ireland moved back after the invasion and have ancestry in both countries . . . . we havent quite figured out why denny wears the bunny suit so much but were also not sure we want to know . . . . budd cool -- but scotts do still have a distinct society and both are known for their stubbornness tempers and drinking and most scotts and irish are proud of these reputations! rach p.s. denny collects bunnys -- all kinds ;- a hobby sort of... gotta guess but sounds good anyway .
From : Annonymous
stupid question time. is the new mega cab available for the lb drw and still allow enough room for a 5th wheel im assuming you either cant or wouldnt want to do a 5th wheel with a sb with or without the mega cab i was a bit surprised to see only $2k difference in the base price between the 2500 srw and 3500 duelly. makes me wonder why anyone pulling a 5th wheel would ever consider anything but the duelly but you see it all the time. lawrence tnloaswpraemnmcien5g@earthlink.net writes yea but that puts you back with that tiny box in the back doesnt it *grin* sheesh! some people want everything... me included .
From : rm
i have the same problem and so did my daughter with her van. im not sure if the dealer will honor the warranty but the way they were talking i have my doubts. how i wish they still made internationals. i had a travelall for years and never had problems like these newer vehicles. in fact i still have a 68 one ton ihc flat bed and it is just now starting to rust out. seems like nothing is built like they use to be. even my 47 diamond t has not rusted out it is also a one ton . clyde clyde n19346@humboldt1.com wrote in just wondering if dodge van owners have had problems with the roof rusting out seems like my daughters 2002 van had a problem and mine now is rusting. clyde the roof was the first part to rust on my 1992 van full size utility van. the paint was flaking off in small chipstoo. rob .
From : adolphe menjou adolphe
my mistake it was on autoweek http//www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articleaid=/20051216/free/51216021&searchid=73234058064280 -- max there are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty soap ballot jury and ammo. please use in that order. -ed howdershelt author tbone if you are interested there were a couple of reports regarding this iirc in the detroit free press. max i spent a bunch of time going through there and cant find it. do you have it at hand tia roy max there are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty soap ballot jury and ammo. please use in that order. -ed howdershelt author not really its very relevant since ford has bought back 1000 units of the psd. problems range from turbo vanes breaking and being injested to engine management glitches. perhaps the most damaging in terms of per incident costs is the injectors that stick open and hydro-lock the engine. ford and navistar are said to be at odds over the issues and it has cost fomoco upwards of $500 million over their warranty costs in the previous year. hopefully your friend will not experience any of this. however given some of the stuff ive read he should absolutley keep records of maintenance and not attempt mods of any sort. i have a friend who just bought an 05 f250 as well so well see. i have a friend who also bought an 05 f350 and tends to beat on it a little. thanks for the info max ill pass it on to him. -- if at first you dont succeed youre not cut out for skydiving .