Wet belt condition on DS3 1.2 VTi 2014?

Already planning on getting it changed and much more. You can check my previous post for more info you want.

How does it look? 78 thousand km. Never changed before.

Could you also tell me what else I should get changed? Other than the ones listed on my previous post. I'm trying to get most stuff replaced so it runs better. Currently the car can't climb any hill, the acceleration is trash, the throttle doesn't respond at all.

u/JohnSmith--- — 13 days ago

Where do I obtain a 2014 DS3 service manual?

I'm not talking about the little booklets that came with the car. I'm talking about the real deal, that big book (if it exists?) service manual with all the part numbers and torque values, etc.

I want to ChrisFix my car myself but I can't find any of this information from Stellantis or Citroen. The manual just doesn't exist.

Is it online? Is it subscription based? Is it not available for normal people?

I found sites supposedly selling PDFs but then I researched those sites more and they're all scams.

When I visited a PSA parts seller, they could access something online and with my VIN number, they had full access to whatever Stellantis provides, with correct official part numbers and torque specs, guides, tutorials, etc.

How do I get this myself?

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u/JohnSmith--- — 18 days ago

DS3 TPMS inside tires or not?

I've got a 2014 DS3. I was wondering where the TPMS sensors are. Is there four of them in total, one in each tire? Or is the car getting the tire pressure from other sensors and electronics in the car and making a calculation?

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u/JohnSmith--- — 24 days ago

Starting my first ever music CD collection after Sony announced no more physical PS5 games

Yes, I know it's unrelated. But the news of there being no more physical PS5 games releasing after 2028 reignited my physical media flame.

I'm almost 30, so I'm used to discs. But when I was a teen I sold all my games. My parents sold their music CD collection more than a decade ago too. It's been a digital household for a while. I've been "ripping" FLACs from streaming services (that I'm subscribed to) for the past 10 years or so. But most files I "rip" and then inspect with spek are not real FLACs. They have a sharp cut at 20 kHz.

So with this dissatisfaction I had with streaming services for a long time and the recent PS5 news, I decided to start a game/music collection. I went down to my local music shop that sells vinyl and CDs. Mostly vinyl though, but I have no interest in them. I picked these for now, all brand new and sealed. I will be ripping these to digital and playing them on my Jellyfin server with my Denon AVR and Dali Oberon speakers.

What do you think?

I will also be starting a physical PS5 collection soon and try to rebuild my childhood PS2/PS3 collection.

u/JohnSmith--- — 1 month ago

Citroen DS3, help create list of servicing and part replacements before external/internal detailing?

Hi all. My car is an automatic 2014 DS3 1.2 VTi. Engine code EB2. I've had it since 2020 but I never really took care of it that much. Barely used it. Now I want to bring it back to life. I recently had it repainted to give it back that shine. Now I'm tackling the mechanical stuff.

I'm making a list of all the things/parts I should get replaced and what should be done as a routine service and also what can be improved to prevent future headaches.

Things I've decided on so far:

  • Air Filter - MANN-FILTER (C 24 026)
  • Cabin Filter - MANN-FILTER (FP 21 000-2)
  • Oil Filter - MANN-FILTER (W 7053)
  • Fuel Filter - MANN-FILTER (WK 6031)
  • Spark Plugs - PSA (1654509380)
  • Wet Belt - PSA (1654516080)
  • V-Ribbed Belt - PSA (1621267280)
  • Water Pump - PSA (9803442480)
  • Thermostat - PSA (9676409580)

I would really appreciate if you could tell me what else I can get replaced, and the part number if you can too. I think there is more I can do, like the transmission filter but I don't know which part would be correct.

After all the mechanical stuff is done, I'll getting it professionally detailed. Deep external and internal clean, along with ceramic coating and window tinting. I feel like the car will be reborn after all this. I will also be getting new tires and a AGM battery. Also will be replacing every fluid I can. But finding the right fluids seem hard. I settled for "TotalEnergies QUARTZ INEO RCP 5W-30" for engine oil. Don't know about brake fluid, transmission fluid, etc.

Have a nice day.

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u/JohnSmith--- — 2 months ago

DS3 2014 1.2 VTi, wet belt or not? Dealer says no wet belt present in my car

I've just had the dealer replace my airbags for free with the recall. While I was there I asked about this "wet belt" issue that I've only recently learned about. I've done some research. I asked the service guy, he asked multiple other people and looked through his monitor, and said mine is a 1.2 VTi, not a 1.2 Puretech, so mine doesn't have a wet belt.

I'm still not really convinced. It could also be 2015 model since that's the year it was first on the road, but afaik it's a 2014 model.

DS3 1.2 VTi ETG5 STT 82hp.

AFAIK my engine code is EB2.

So does it have a wet belt or not? I have both my VIN number and full engine serial.

Looking on the internet, there are two sites that says there is a difference between the 1.2 VTi and 1.2 Puretech. They say the VTi doesn't have a wet belt. Are these claims true?

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u/JohnSmith--- — 2 months ago

Buzz tin box from my childhood? Any more info on it?

Was cleaning the storage and found it. I cleaned it with a brush and dish soap after more than 20 years of not being used. While cleaning it smelled like gasoline (hopefully it's not lead paint). I'm trying to get more info on it. When and where it's from, what's it made of, for what purpose, lunch box or regular tin box, etc.

17cm width, 13cm depth, 6cm height.

Can anyone tell me more about it? And is it worth anything. Condition is pretty bad but still. I'm not going to sell it, just curious.

u/JohnSmith--- — 2 months ago

Recovering Firefox profile and bookmarks

I use Firefox with PSD (Profile-sync-daemon) which runs the Firefox profiles from RAM. My drive's filesystem is ext4.

I ran out of space on my SSD so I deleted the -backup files under /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/profile-name-backup since they were very big. I had two profiles with thousands of bookmarks in them. Once I closed Firefox and reopened it, everything was gone. Both my profiles had been reset to scratch.

I read the documentation and tried Photorec. I selected my drive, selected the partition, and only selected .sqlite and .jsonlz4 files to be searched, since they're what I'm after. But unfortunately, almost all the files Photorec found are useless, corrupted or truncated. After realizing this I live booted a Arch Linux USB and made a ddrescue image of my disk, which is what I should've done from the beginning, instead of using the system more and rebooting multiple times, risking the data being overwritten.

This happened yesterday. I disabled TRIM just in case as well.

The drive is fine. No health issues or bad sectors. I just f-ed up. I need something that can recover .sqlite and .jsonlz4 files correctly. Not like Photorec.

I just tried this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/File_recovery#Text_file_recovery

Where I inputted a string that would only show up in my bookmarks and it found it and many others. So somewhere inside the system, even after all the reboots and data being written, they exist somewhere.

How would I go on from here?

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u/JohnSmith--- — 2 months ago

Firefox profile deleted, help recover it (Linux, PSD, Ext4, reboots)

I'm on Arch Linux. I use Firefox with PSD (Profile-sync-daemon) which runs the Firefox profiles from RAM. My drive's filesystem is ext4. It's a 120GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD.

I ran out of space on my SSD so I deleted the -backup files under /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/profile-name-backup since they were very big. I had two profiles with thousands of bookmarks in them. Once I closed Firefox and reopened it, everything was gone. Both my profiles had been reset to scratch.

I immediately tried testdisk without really knowing what I was doing but the whole system came to a crawl and icons started disappearing. I was shaking, thinking I deleted my whole system (my photos, keepass database, etc). So I frantically got an external SSD and made a copy of everything I could and rebooted. Once rebooted the system was back to normal and everything was still there, except my Firefox stuff of course. So the panic was for unwarranted but a good lesson to learn. Don't do anything without knowing first.

Then I actually read the documentation and tried Photorec instead, which seemed better suited for my situation. I selected my drive, selected the partition, and only selected .sqlite and .jsonlz4 files to be searched, since they're what I'm after. But unfortunately, almost all the files Photorec found are useless, corrupted or truncated. After realizing this I live booted Arch Linux and made a ddrescue image of my disk, which is what I should've done from the beginning, instead of using the system more and rebooting multiple times, risking the data being overwritten.

That image is the best case scenario I have right now. I'm still using the drive (writing from it with a new Firefox profile, empty af) and rebooted a couple times more. It's been a day. This happened yesterday. I disabled TRIM just in case as well.

I'm willing to fork up the money for a paid license for a software that works on Linux. R-Studio or UFS Explorer Standard Recovery? I don't know which would be better for me.

The drive is fine. No health issues or bad sectors. I just f-ed up. I need something that can recover .sqlite and .jsonlz4 files correctly. Not like Photorec.

EDIT: FINALLY SOMETHING WORKED!!!

https://github.com/andikleen/lz4json

One of the jsonlz4 files that Photorec recovered finally got decoded with the 7th tool I tried. The one I linked above.

I got 10 years of bookmarks back!

Finally. I can rest easy. Backups weekly from here on out.

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u/JohnSmith--- — 2 months ago

Would the ability to fly be illegal?

Let's say I could fly as a human like Superman. Would it be illegal? Could I just fly above the roads and around buildings and go where I need to go without touching the ground? Could I be told not to fly?

Which country would be most against it?

Of course, all this is assuming I don't go anywhere that would warrant trespassing.

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u/JohnSmith--- — 3 months ago

First of all, I live in a European style concrete house that's older than me.

I've got symmetric 1000 Mbps FTTH. My ONT and router is in the living room. There is a satellite TV outlet near my router in the living room. That outlet and the TV cable inside it goes straight into my room.

We do not use satellite TV. So I fished CAT6 through the wall using the old TV cable as a guide, otherwise it would've been hell to install it by itself in this house.

I started fishing from the 1m marker and by the time the cable came to my room, the marker was at 32m. It's a 23AWG CAT6 U/UTP cable.

Can it do 10G at this distance? I've got a 5-port 2.5G switch that also has a single SFP+ slot. I'll be using a 10G RJ45 SFP+ module for uplink, which I will then connect five 2.5G devices as clients.

I will not be using keystone jacks on the wall plates this time because I want to avoid them introducing any variables at this distance. I'll be terminating them as RJ45 jacks directly going into my router and switch.

There's lots of info online, some say 30m max, some say 55m, some say only CAT6A can do 10G. So I wanted to ask real people.

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u/JohnSmith--- — 4 months ago
▲ 1 r/audio

I have a Fosi Audio stereo desktop amp that I'm using with Dali Zensor speakers. I've been using a regular KabelDirekt 3.5mm to Stereo RCA cable to connect the amp to my PC. Everything's been fine but I moved my PC and the cable is now too short, and the longer versions aren't in stock right now.

So I ordered some custom 3.5mm to Stereo RCA cables from some local audio guy. The cable is (supposedly) 100% copper, "professional instrument cable" with some braiding and gold connector. So just a basic custom cable, nothing special.

However, after connecting the RCA inputs to the amp and 3.5mm to the PC, it fails the Front Left/Front Right stereo test. Sounds are coming from both the speakers. When I connect my old cable back, it works, front left and front right produce sounds in their respective sides only.

Did I get scammed? Is there maybe something else going on?

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u/JohnSmith--- — 4 months ago

I haven't used my Nokia 8010 in a long time. I just took it out of its box again and plugged it in, connected with ethernet cable, went through the setup process and all was fine. Until I went to settings to check for an update and it says there are no updates avaiable, that I'm already on the latest firmware. But I know for a fact this is a lie.

There are posts about Nokia 8010 receiving Android 12 and 14 from over the years. Why does it say I'm on the latest update when I press "check for updates". What am I supposed to do to update?

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u/JohnSmith--- — 4 months ago

I want to my move 3090 into my old PC. It has a Corsair RM750e (2023) PSU and i9-11900K. 3090 is an EVGA FTW3 ULTRA.

Can I use it there?

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u/JohnSmith--- — 4 months ago