Grabthar

Sadly, its numbers are comparable to Hyundai's Ioniq 6, which might be the best EV on the market right now. Seems a lot of EVs are tanking in sales now.

From the sound of it, as long as you can take it apart, it is in good condition, and the head and valve aren't made of plastic, you can refill the suppressing agent (water, foam, CO2 or powder) and repressurize it. If it doesn't leak, you should be good to go. Plastic working parts seem to indicate the disposable models. I guess take it in and see what they say -- one site said they may even refill a disposable if it's fairly new and holds up well to the process. I see there are some local guidelines that say you should replace anything after x years, regardless of condition, so results may vary.

Hey, get on board, man. It's for science.

Many firehalls (at least the ones in Canada) will recharge your fire extinguisher for free if you bring it by.

As a kid, I thought they looked like someone nuked the dick out of a crappy frozen mini pizza. But I wouldn't want to cosplay that.

Have you never had a meeting that bypassed the project manager? Where the three or four people who will actually figure out the technical details start a call and hash everything out in 15 minutes, after weeks of 1 hour meetings that everyone has avoided for months? Every meeting would be like that in a utopia; no more middle managers, just people who know what they're doing.

I think a boring, active, hot top is exactly what much of Lemmy is looking for.

Everybody on Lemmy thinking Windows 10 users have to choose among buying a new PC, switching to Linux, or waiting for Microsoft to blink, but six bucks and my right nut says the overwhelming majority aren't going to do squat when their machine stops updating.

Ooh, loving the JWST (Jack Webb Star Trek) post!

Yep, I had a 2002 Kia Rio and the part looked familiar when I scrolled past! What I meant is that I assume the mechanical timing still permits the electrical timing to function without the sensor, it just isn't firing optimally. If it was completely dependent on the sensor for firing the plugs, I figured it would either not run at all, or worse, cause a bad enough misfire that could do some cylinder damage. Though maybe there isn't a bad enough misfire to do that? I don't know enough about them.

I also had a 2007 Sonata that blew up a few years ago when the timing chain broke, so some experience with failed mechanical timing too :) That was a great car I wish I'd tried to rebuild the engine on, but I just downsized to one car instead. Good luck with your Tucson! Good to see the older cars still ticking along.

I swapped one of these on an old Kia once. Dealer wanted over a hundred for the part, but I was able to get an OEM part on ebay straight from South Korea for less than twenty bucks shipped. IIRC, the hardest part was disconnecting the wiring harness on the old one. Like yours, it took a while to figure out what was wrong with the car, as it didn't throw the expected code right away. It just suddenly started running poorly. I think it's mostly for optimisation, and the basic timing works well enough from physical position, else my interference engine likely would have blown itself up at some point.

Ok, didn't realise I was responding to a mouth breather. Go back to reddit, clown.