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    From Spectre@21:3/101 to Blue White on Sun May 5 11:21:00 2024
    Any car I've coded requires that the engine be on. It gets enough
    power at rest to light the display, but it won't read anything
    until the engine is on.

    +1. Pretty sure the engine needed to be on for any car I have

    You'd have to think for the small amount of current it might draw, that it'd
    be more an idictment of the battery state, or very infrequent driving. If it really worried someone, you could always bang a relay into the ignition power and loop the OBD power through it.

    Spec


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nightfox on Sun May 5 08:20:00 2024
    Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Any car I've coded requires that the engine be on. It gets enough power at rest to light the display, but it won't read anything until the engine is on.

    What do you mean by "coded"?

    Plugged in an OBD reader to read codes from the car.

    (It means something a little different now - I have a BMW i3, and there
    are lots of configuration options available with a program called
    Bimmercode and an OBD dongle. "coding" means changing the params to
    change the car's behavior...)



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  • From Digital Man@21:1/183 to Roon on Sun May 5 15:30:11 2024
    Re: useless, but fun things S43E123
    By: Roon to All on Fri May 03 2024 04:35 pm

    http://bbs.roonsbbs.hu/images/rx8-anothermillenium.jpg

    <like button clicked>
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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to Roon on Sun May 5 19:51:00 2024
    Hello Roon!

    http://bbs.roonsbbs.hu/images/rx8-anothermillenium.jpg

    Is the 217970 km all yours?


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  • From Roon@21:4/148 to Ogg on Mon May 6 21:16:27 2024
    Hello Ogg,

    05 May 24 19:51, you wrote to me:

    http://bbs.roonsbbs.hu/images/rx8-anothermillenium.jpg

    Is the 217970 km all yours?

    nope, just ~120000. 4th engine :)

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Roon on Mon May 6 13:12:40 2024
    Re: useless, but fun things S43E123
    By: Roon to Ogg on Mon May 06 2024 09:16 pm

    Is the 217970 km all yours?

    nope, just ~120000. 4th engine :)


    That sounds like a VW. I'm considering buying a VW Vanagon Westfalia, and like any old VW, the engines need to be "blown out" every 60-70K miles. Every one has a rebuilt engine.

    I did find a decent one with a 2.4l aircooled replacement instead of the 2.1l engine, but considering that the steering wheel was on upside down, I was a little leery of the quality of work.
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