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Re: [anthonyp]
by jlbl on Mon Nov 03 14:16:02 PST 2008
Hi Tony, here is my 'report' in times of ULSD and current diesel engines. :D Within my 335d or around her, I do not smell diesel at all. Even if the tank has been filled to the top and I start riding her on bumpy pavement. My garage does not smell of diesel. In the streets or roads I do not smell diesel either. Even if standing close to a diesel bus or rig. Except if I am next to an old diesel vehicle or one of which the engine is not running properly. I still smell awful diesel from cranes, caterpillars and similar machines. When filling the tank, I usually do not smell diesel unless I let enough fuel getting out the hose. I put plastic gloves on my hands to avoid rubber and diesel odor gluing to them. This would be unavoidable were not by the gloves. There are gloves in most of the pumps, either of the gas or diesel sort. Both sorts of pumps are intermingled in every pump row at gas stations over here. In other words, they are not segregated from each other because of the odor or whatever. I am very sensitive to diesel odor. My breath holds and my eyes itch when I smell non ULSD, either raw or burned. I would not bear driving behind a diesel car/bus/truck before this era. :mad: This put me aside from driving diesels until 2008, when I bought my first one (530d). The tank of this 335d is even more isolated than that of my former diesel car to my hapiness. I DO not smell diesel odor at all in this coupe. :shades: I hope this helps to the undecided. Regards, Jose
Re: New Volvo XC70 Owners - Give Us Your Report! [pf_flyer]
by effigy3 on Tue Oct 28 09:04:21 PDT 2008
I like the looks and the utility of it without having a traditional truck-like SUV. The ride is quite good, 2nd only to the air shock equipped Toureg. I can fit the whole family of 4, 2 Britax car seats in the back seat with plenty of room between to lower teh center arm rest to hold water bottles for the kiddos. Sure do love the rear DVD system. Especially since each kiddo gets their own screen. I sync them to display the same show and play audio over the car stereo. They don't crane their necks to view as they do in my wifes minivan with it's solo screen attached to the roof. The truck is very spacious and holds all the essentials that having a toddler and a preschooler require, plus gorceries! I do wish they would have place a power outlet or two on the actual dashboard rather than just in the center console. My GPS cord is stretched to the max and is in the way a lot.
Explorer Heater Problem
by heatertreater on Sat Oct 04 16:49:05 PDT 2008
The plenum box in the Explorer was changed for the 03 model, so discussions on 02 and earlier models do not apply on 03 and later models. The first observation was the ability to press down on the top of the motor and stop the clicking sound. This is an observation for 02- models. What is happening is that the gears are out of alignment and are slipping against each other, causing the clicking sound. The actuator motor is trying to calibrate itself by driving to a stop point and recording a resistance value on an internal variable resistor. Since the gears are slipping, the motor never finds the end point that it is looking for and just clicks until the car is started 20 times which kicks off a new calibration cycle. Sometimes pressing on the right pressure point on the motor housing will cause the gears to temporarily catch, stalling the motor and allowing the computer to make it's resistance reading and move on. However, just stopping the clicking is only a temporary fix since the motor will get into a position where it slips again and start the routine over again. If this is allowed to continue, it will strip gears on the motor and it will have to be replaced. The root cause of the problem is that the blend door is out of alignment with the motor. The gears in the motor have to be planar to operate correctly. If the drive axle breaks, the motor "tilts", causing the gears to no longer be planar and they slip against each other. While it's possible for the motor to fail and reach the click stage on it's own, more commonly, the blend door axle is cracked or broken. This happens every day on thousands of Rangers, Explorers, Mountaineers, Mazda trucks, etc. It is a wear-out mechanism in the system and not a rare occurrence. Follow my user name back to our CarSpace and follow the link to a web site with more information and pictures. The 03+ Explorer is a different beast altogether. On the 02- the blend door is on a vertical axis and the actuator motor is found on top of the heater box. On the 03+ the door is on a horizontal axis that spans parallel to the dash across the center of the console. The actuator motor for the single control version is on the driver's side of the box and can be seen if you remove the skirt next to the transmission tunnel and crane your neck. It also clicks, but for a different reason. The lever described in a previous post is on the passenger side of the box and again, you have to remove the skirt on the passenger side and "double crane" your neck to see it. It is connected to the end of the axle which is driven by the actuator motor on the other side. This lever presses down on a vacuum switch which controls a valve under the hood which shuts off coolant flow through the heater core. The idea is that when the blend door is in the full down position(max AC), the lever pushes a button that shuts off heat to the heater core. This maximizes AC efficiency. Observation of the clicking sound being reflected in the vacuum switch lever is again just a symptom of a different root cause problem. As in the 02-, the gears in the actuator motor are getting out of plane and slipping against each other. However, the cause of the mis-alignment of the blend door to the axle is a design flaw in the system. This is very difficult to explain with out pictures and arrows, so you will need to go to our web site for a full technical explanation. The point is that the problems are different for the the two generations of Explorer and the fixes are different. Follow my user name to our CarSpace and pointer to our web site for more information than can be typed into this little box. cgallen
Re: A tale of Accord obsession [keitha3]
by midlifehonda on Mon Sep 22 21:27:40 PDT 2008
Today I just happened to notice a white Acura TSX on the road with a family of 4 inside staring back at me, as I craned my neck checking out their ... black interior! Hmmm! White on black! Back to 4 doors, but a sexy looking car to be sure, and of course costs as much as the Accord V6, but has a 201hp and 172 ft-lbs (!!) version of the 2.4L engine. That's gotta be worth a test drive! Endless decisions. Luckily I sense the chores of reality are going to tear me away from this obsession soon until ... this weekend. :shades: Dudleyr - snow tires - great idea - thanks. Effers - handsfree accessory warnings - yuck. There goes that idea. I'd rather have no handsfree than the accessory-version you describe. And I'm still thinking I4. That's okay, I don't talk much while driving, anyway, hands free or not.

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