Ant Anstead: Born Mechanic - great show

If you like older cars and older homes, the show is a real blast to watch.
Premise of the show is Ant (formerly of Wheelers and Dealers) bought his parents a 500 yo farm house as the family home, since they never had one growing up, but it requires a shit ton of work so he is buying old cars, fixing them up and selling them to fund the house work. Issue is, he sucks at valuation, so he keeps losing money on the cars. I understand it is all moot since the show is probably funding the actual house build, but the cars are great, the house is great, I love Ant and his explanations of how things work and the work he is doing. But wow does he suck at making money on the cars...

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u/fourdawgnight — 2 days ago
▲ 2 r/Rivian

Traffic Light Detection - anyone seeing Red and Green flashing back and forth?

After update light rec wasn't working at all. Deep sleep brought it up today, but it was wonky at best. It was flashing between red and green, but not consistently. With 3 lights at the intersection, 2 were solid green and the far left one was confused and would go green, red, green,...but in real life it was just green. Curious if others are seeing the same? They will need this to be DOB accurate to enable Point to Point...

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u/fourdawgnight — 11 days ago
▲ 15 r/Rivian

2026.23 dropped from Rivian Roamer Dashboard.

Did they pull the release or is this just a blip on Roamers site?

Nevermind, was a blip. back up and showing it rolling out...

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u/fourdawgnight — 14 days ago

All you posers need to get out of the configurator so I can go play

Come on folks - let a dude go do dude stuff.
you're all clogging up the configurator. I need my fix...

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u/fourdawgnight — 2 months ago
▲ 3 r/Ioniq5

Oh Shit Bars on Limiteds

Resolved - thanks
Do the I5 limited come with oh shit bars on the front passenger side?
Google says yes and no depending on how you ask the question. Dealer said yes, but based on a google search, they don't have any limiteds to go look at right now and the one that is being delivered has a few folks in line for (my dad is at the from of that list).

Deal is my dad wants HUD (only available on the Limited trim) but due to health issues my mom needs an oh shit bar on the passenger side so she can get in and out with limited help. They are seniors so these are both kinda deal breakers for them. Why on this car. it is hands down the easiest car for my mom to get in and out of vs any other car, but she only can test with what is on the lot, SEL and lower trims which all have the oh shit bars.

If anyone can confirm one way or the other that would be much appreciated.

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u/fourdawgnight — 2 months ago
▲ 7 r/bugs

IOS Suggested posts are showing up in my feed even though I have that turned off in my profile - IOS

things have been good for about a year and in the past 245 hours I am now getting recommended posts/communities form reddit again even though I have it turned off? seems like a bug. please fix, the suggestions are horrible and it is a PITA to keep clicking not he groups and muting them...

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u/fourdawgnight — 2 months ago
▲ 7 r/Rivian

anyone know if we are getting a new SW update in June?

I know we got the hot fix, just wondering if we are getting a real one this month?

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u/fourdawgnight — 2 months ago
▲ 17 r/saab

question - 2007 Saab Aero Convertible - GM head unit?

this is screen scrape from a video and no idea how to remove the Audio or options from he screen, but you can seen the 2 knob for tuning and volume control? also has what appears to be phone controls next to the cigarette lighter.
is this a factory thing, odd ball option? was this a previous owner just shade treeing this together?
I have never seen this headhunt in any other 2007 saab? I just don't want to get into an electrical rats next if I want to replace the head unit with a CarPlay unit...

thanks for any insight.

u/fourdawgnight — 2 months ago

[Request] Apple TV Monarchs - Kong - what if we are all that big?

Watching Monarchs S2 E1 on Apple TV and was thinking what if we were all scaled to the same size as Kong on that show, how small would the world feel? On the show Kong is roughly 50 times larger than a normal silver back. the moon is roughly 50 times smaller than the earth based on volume.
Is it safe to say it would feel like being on the moon (take gravity out of the equation for now)? so the earth would still feel really big, or since earth is roughly 4 times the diameter of the moon we would need a much smaller sphere to represent the actual feel size?

Needless to say, the gummies have kicked in so I am struggling with the concept a bit and the AI response form google is freaking me out a bit...

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u/fourdawgnight — 2 months ago

Memory of a Killer - How has no one shared this?

I am less than 1 full episode in, but McDreamy drives 2 hot as sport wagons as part of his family and professional life.
the only reason I watched MobLand was for the RS6, would have tuned into this show so much sooner...
No spoiler, but they are both VAG products.

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u/fourdawgnight — 3 months ago

Vehicle is a Rivian R1T Dual Large 110 wKh battery. Charger is the Wallbox Pulsar Plus (the Fisker branded one but all internals are the same). the Generator is a Pecron F5000LFP, with expansion batteries. The Plug adapter is a NEMA L14-30P 30A 4-Prong Plug to NEMA 14-50R 50A 125/250V Connector.
This seems like a pretty easy thing to set up, what am I missing that will cause me a problem?
Generator will be powered by 2X300 watt panels. this is not an every day scenario, just for remote camping trips...

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u/fourdawgnight — 3 months ago