u/MrFastFox666

I was a good boy and did not put it in the bin

As the title says, I accidentally took two radios from BestBuy when I worked there and only found them like a year later in my car. They'd come in handy sometimes with my new job, but I don't want to spend like $60 on charging cradles for them so I made my own.

Two pins at the bottom of the radio simply go straight to the battery. So I bought some pogo pins, scanned one of the radios, modeled the cradle, and added the pins and an XT-60 connector. Now I can use my lithium battery charger to charge them back up.

I recently bought a Genesis G80 but I couldn't find it in the blue color I wanted with the interior I wanted, so I got it in gray and plan to wrap it. I want to know what to expect from the wrap and get some info before I pull the trigger. Any info is greatly appreciated.

1. How do small complex details like on the first picture get handled? Particularly the body-colored grille? Is this something that can look close to what paint does? Or is there some compromise that has to be made due to it just being tricky geometry?

2. The car has some orange peel from a previous repair, seen in the second picture. Is this something I should fix before getting the wrap? Or should I expect the wrapping guys to address this assuming it's even necessary?

3. Any special care or handling I should know about with a wrapped car? I don't have a garage currently so I have to park it out in the sun, but I can garage it sometimes if it's really necessary.

4. How do door jambs get handled? Is it common to leave them untouched? Or do they typically wrap those too?

Some time ago I made a post in a different sub asking what people thought of using cheap 12v AGM batteries from Amazon and a lot of people were skeptical. But I want to see what people think of them here with EVs.

Around October 2024 I got one of these cheap batteries off Amazon for my Cadillac ELR and it's been nearly flawless, it replaced the original AC Delco battery which lasted 10 years. It was the cheapest H4 AGM I could find on Amazon at like $140. It did die on me once, but I had the car sitting for like 3 weeks and two of those weeks I was constantly opening and closing doors, disconnecting stuff etc, so it may or may not have been the battery's fault. I tested it yesterday and it still shows 510 CCA. Yeah, not that relevant to hybrids or EVs, but it's the best way I can think of to test them without discharging them.

This week, my mom's Toyota C-HR (gas car) had its battery die, and I was thinking of replacing the battery in my Electrified G80 too since it died a few weeks ago, so I ordered two more batteries off Amazon, both are these uplus H5 AGM batteries. They were the cheapest at $129 for each one. We'll see how they hold up, especially the Toyota.

I think that for the price, these are a very interesting option for EVs. Frankly even for gasoline cars too. The name brand batteries you find at Autozone or Batteries+ or Interstate are like $160-200 for a flooded battery, and around $260 for an AGM, with the famous Optima Yellow Top being $360. The only cheaper option I found was an EverStart flooded model from Walmart at $120. Honestly, I think I'll start putting all of the family cars as needed. Another Amazon brand I see often is Mighty Max (or something like that) and I've used their small batteries in the past with no issues, their large automotive batteries may be worth a shot too.

This is what robot vacuums look like when you can see infrared light. The first one is a Roborock Saros 20. This one uses the newer solid state LIDAR, it works by shooting out all those little dots of light and measuring how far each one travels before it hits a surface. That line it projects on the side is probably to detect the edge of walls, but I'm not sure how that works exactly.

Second one is a Eufy S1. This one uses the older style spinning LIDAR. It projects a single point of light and measures how far it travels before hitting a surface, and the projector and sensor spin which is why it looks like a line. This one also projects a dot pattern forward, but it simply uses infrared cameras to see how this pattern is distorted by objects in front. This is used for obstacle detection, not navigation.

You can also see the drop sensors as those glowing lights under the Eufy. They simply shine light on the ground and a sensor looks for the reflected light. If the sensor no longer sees light, it knows the vacuum is approaching a drop like a set of stairs.

Found myself cutting it close on a return trip, and IONNA had the 4th of July special pricing, so decided to stop there. Refreshingly simple to plug in and charge.

Was driving home and had navigation running, and was coming up on an intersection. I decided to check if it was faster to turn right or to go straight, sometimes Google sends me through the slower route for no good reason.

Even though my car's screen is controlled by a knob and the screen is really high up, I could see the truck in front of me but not the traffic light. The truck went through the yellow so I didn't start to slow down until I looked up and saw the red light. It all happened within 3 seconds (I have an interior cam too but am not posting that vid due to privacy concerns from my passengers). Lesson learned for me, glad nothing bad happened.

Stay safe out there!

I know this is a minor thing, but I'm mildly disappointed to see that the inner screen on the trifold is constantly rubbing and touching against itself and the inner panel. Often times I open up my device and see a clear imprint of the carbon fiber pattern on the right side of the screen, and two large imprints near the left hinge where both sides are clearly rubbing against each other.

I've attached pictures of both. The first one is of the left hinge (the smaller one), you can see how there's what appears to be lint flanking both sides of the hinge. That's scratches, I cleaned the screen before taking photos, and they're all somewhat deep and perfectly horizontal.

Second picture is the right side of the screen. Again, that's not lint, that's little scratches and impact marks from dust from the back panel being pressed into the screen. This one I noticed happening literally days after I got the phone. Despite me being extra careful to wipe any dust off the rear panel before closing the phone, this happened.

3rd picture is from my OnePlus Open. Despite much more use than on my Trifold, the screen has held up much much better, only small micro scratches and one large one which isn't the fault of the device.

I'm curious to see if anyone else is seeing this, and to what extent. I feel that Samsung flew a bit too close to the sun when slimming down the Trifold.

I've been meaning to test this but didn't have a good opportunity until this week. On Sunday I took my car on a long drive, about 230 miles. Knowing I'd go on a week-long business trip, I decided to plug in to a 120v outlet to test charging efficiency. This was at 7pm on Sunday. Today is Wednesday, it's 2pm and I just got a notification that my car is finished charging. This is on a 2023 Genesis G80 Electrified. It is currently parked inside a garage in the middle of the Florida summer, so it's probably sitting at >110F ambient temperature

The numbers: I traveled 231.8 miles at 3.5 mi/kWh, started at 100% battery SoC. This means I used 66.3 kWh from the pack.

I plugged in to a monitored smart outlet. Ignore the name I gave it, it had been sitting for months and just happened to be plugged in the garage, unused. It took 72.4 kWh to fully recharge the battery back to 100%.

This means this really long charging session had a 91% efficiency. I always hear that L1 charging is significantly less efficient since a larger portion of the input energy is used for non-charging purposes. And while in theory this makes perfect sense, I've never once seen any actual data or examples presented when people make these claims. Looks like in practice this effect is not as significant. I haven't tested L2 efficiency but I'll do that next, I have a 3.8 kw and a 7.6 kw charger I use regularly.

I was especially annoyed when I saw the video by Engineering Explained on Porsche's wireless charging tech. He just took Porsche's claim of 60% L1 charging efficiency at face value without presenting any numbers or anything else to back that ridiculous claim. Watch that here: https://youtu.be/aeMQfA45LN8?si=gek4omyApr4zi8Fx (skip to 6:41). I felt that this claim was a load of bullshit from Porsche to make their very expensive wireless charger look good on paper, and this little test I did is imo pretty significant evidence against that.

Anyone else want to share their charging efficiency? I'd love to hear about different cars' charging efficiency.

This is on a 2026 Sonata Hybrid (rental, not my own). In my Cadillac ELR and my Honda CR-Z I struggled to break past 40 mpg and on a trip like this I'd probably be in the low 30s.

I started traveling for work and they provide the rental for me, it's one of those lots where they have a handful of cars to pick from. For context, my daily driver at home is a 2023 G80 Electrified.

This is the base model hybrid, but it still has a decent feature set and materials. Other than the crappy steering wheel and tiny 16" wheels, it doesn't feel like you're being punished for getting the base model. The cloth material on the seats and floor carpeting is much nicer than typical economy cars, and overall the materials are nicer than expected. The door handles are alunimun, and the front and rear door cards have this nice leathery-looking soft plastic all over where you rest your arm.

It has wireless Android Auto and a pretty nice large infotainment. There's really nice phycisal controls all over the car (really appreciate that one), and you get goodies like radar cruise and auto lane centering, blind spot monitor, a pretty good sounding stereo, and a very nice shift by wire gear selector, probably my favorite gear selector I've every tired.

The power train is amazing, this is the first ICE car that I don't hate driving, probably thanks to the hybrid system. It doesn't do the typically annoying things ICE cars do like idling or lurching forward from a stop. The 6 speed transmission shifts very smoothly, the engine is quiet, and overall the power delivery is smooth and drama free unless you're really pushing the pedal. While more power would be nice, the car's acceleration is adequate for daily use, and my lead-footed-self doesn't feel that it's too slow or annoying. My only complaints are regarding regen braking. The car has off throttle regen braking, but it only seems to activate when you're fully off the pedal. So if you press the pedal slightly to slightly reduce regen, it just turns it off instead and the car coasts, which results in a rubber banding effect. The lack of one pedal driving is also disappointing.

Fuel economy is very impressive. Despite my aggressive driving style, I can easily get well over 30 mpg, often in the low to mid 40s.

Handling and ride quality is another pleasant surprise. The car is very smooth over bumps (probably due to the tiny wheels) and it handles shockingly well given it's size. It feels quite nimble and responsive, and grips very well.

Overall it's an impressive car given its price. While I wouldn't change my Genesis for this any day, I wouldn't mind driving one either.

TL;DR: Check that the PTFE tubes in the AMS aren't cut at a slight angle.

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A few weeks ago someone posted a Pic saying they're having issues with their AMS 2 Pro, and lots of commenters said they're also having issues. I was too, the new AMS I got with my X2D failed to load filament very often, I had to "help it" feed and it felt like it was hitting a snag when loading.

I noticed the PTFE tubes going from the filament loader to the hub was cut at a very slight angle. I had an old heat brake from an Ender 3, put the tube in and you can see it's at an angle. I used the heat brake and a sharp utility blade to cut the PTFE tube perfectly straight. Reinstalled everything, and the AMS has been working flawlessly ever since.

I'm not sure if this causes the issue some people are experiencing, but it fixed the issue for me.

A few months ago I picked up a 2023 G80 Electrified with 29k miles. I noticed the front tires were pretty low, so I plan to replace them soon, they still have some life left. Today, I noticed one rear tire is basically new, with a 1225 date code and more tread than the other rear tire. All other tires have a 4921 date code. All 4 tires are the same Michelin E Primacy tire. Car has staggered tires.

I'm replacing the front tires for sure. Should I also replace the older rear tire? Replace both rears? Or simply ignore the problem?

Hey all, I wanted to ask if anyone has swapped out the AGM 12v battery for a lithium one and what your experience has been like.

Yeah, I know this isn't an IONIQ 5, it's a 2023 G80 Electrified. But pretty much no one bought it so there's way less info on it out there, and it's similar enough to the IONIQ 5 that I figured I'd ask y'all for your experience with your cars. My 12v battery died after sitting for 3 days despite my car being plugged in, and it was dead dead, like sitting at 4v type of dead. Figured since I'm getting a new battery, might consider upgrading to lithium. What are your thoughts on this?