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First it missed a connection (I dunno, maybe it was at the airport bar having a drink)...

Then it arrives in Calgary, decides that the choochoo isn't running even though there's no choochoo between Calgary AB and Sundre AB.

Package was shipped from Etobicoke Ontario on the 11th. Frustrating.

(Just a vent post).

Pretty much every time I go into the App (I'm using the Buick one but it doesn't matter), I have to sign in again. Sometimes twice in a day. It's especially infuriating because my password manager doesn't get triggered for whatever reason so I have to open that app and search for the password . Then I have to open my 2FA app and copy the code from it. It's just a whole bunch of steps when you're walking around somewhere and want to check if your charging is done or whatever.

I just bought a TS101 after relinquishing my old Pace rework station. The TS101 came with a BC2 tip which is like soldering with a cast iron pan. I bought a variety pack of Feita tips off Amazon.ca which seemed to have the TS-I tip as well as some other less useful ones. When they arrived, none of them worked in the TS101. They all reported 6.1ohms on the display and the iron rebooted when I turned on the heating (running with the 24V 3A DC brick that the TS101 came with.

So now I'm gunshy. I need to be able to do 0201 type stuff and other microscopey work so I think the TS-I is probably my sweet spot. But what's a reliable vendor?

...or would IronOS have solved that problem? I'm a bit gunshy because of the reports that the display won't work right.

Our 24 RS AWD has been in an out of the dealership since the end of January. They've replaced BCM twice, SDGN once, and telematics module once plus updated all the firmware multiple times. But the car still can't connect reliably, so Google assistant and NAV doesn't work. The dealership had been working with GM Engineering but reading between the lines, they're out of ideas. They insisted replacing the telematics module would fix it. But we took a 2 day road trip and the car could only connect a couple times for a short distance.

Trying to gauge how common this is or if our car is an outlier. No lemon laws where we are.

I used the "Invite & Earn" link on the Grizzle Club site to refer a friend to the Grizzle club after recommending he buy a Grizzle U48 charger. The charger arrived, my friend clicked on the link, signed up to the Grizzle club but signed up with a slightly different email address than the one the referral link was sent to. However, the commonality was the referral link. As a result, I am not getting the credit for my friend's charging sessions.

I brought this up with Grizzle and they refused to budge on this even though they admitted that it was clear that my advocacy was genuine and that there was an obvious connection there with the referral link.

So unfortunately, this is the second friend I've recommended a Grizzle charger to and lost out on the referral; which I realize is a mere $.01/kwh that they pour into their EV's.

I'll be recommending other chargers to my other friends looking at EV's.

Our 24 RS AWD has spent most of 2026 in the shop or waiting for parts. They've replaced the BCM twice, SDGM once, and Telematics module once. We just got the car back a week ago and we still have problems with Google Maps not connecting, and Google Assistant saying "Can't connect" and the voice telling us "I'm offline now. But you can ....blah blah blah". This is the problem we took it in for back in January. It worked fine for the first 8 or 9 months we owned the car.

I'm curious whether anyone else who is experiencing this problem had it still after replacing the telematics module? I'm trying to see if there's a pattern in the failure mode.

We live in an area with poor cellphone reception but after around 10km of driving, we have great reception. Sometimes the car just doesn't re-establish whatever connection it needs after it gets into an area with 5 bars; and sometimes it does. Yesterday, for example, we started our drive with no connectivity but then once we got to the main highway, Google Maps connected and stayed connected the entire 100km trip into the city. On the way back, starting in a high reception area in the city, Google Maps wouldn't connect and continued to stay disconnected the entire way home until around 3/4 of the way through the low-reception area but suddenly, on top of one hill where we can get a little bit of reception, it got reconnected.

It almost seems like if it loses cell reception at any point, then it can re-establish the connection when the signal reappears. But if it drops the connection for whatever reason, it can't re-establish it until the modem drops out completely and then comes back.