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    From micky@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 29 09:04:28 2024
    Car repair radio.

    Caller says 2012 honda is overheating and engine fan is not spinning.
    Talk show host says there are two fans, one for when the engine gets
    hot, and one for when you turn the AC on. Is this true? I have no
    trouble believing that 1 goes on with the AC, but don't they both go on
    if needed for to keep the engine from getting too hot?

    Another guy calls, noise from right rear brake. He wants to bleed the
    brakes and asks about whether brake bleeder valves are standard (because
    the one in there is messed up.) They talk about that, bBut it seems to
    me the host should have objected to his plan. Bleeding seems very
    unlikey to do anything, that is, the need for bleeding is not going to
    be the cause of the noise, right? Bleeding removes air in the line,
    which can make the brakes spongy, but doesnt' apply the brakes when they shouln't be.

    Clare stopped posting, didn't he. Just noticed that.

    3rd car: Didn't mention that the techenical service bulletins are online
    for all of us to read, are they not.

    There was a guy on over 10 or 20+ years ago who gave fantastic car
    repair advice, on WRC, so much so I tried to find an indoor radio that
    would get that station (which I could get in every car I had), so I
    guess this was before there were radio stations on the web. He was the
    only one whose advice always sounded great, but he retired and this one
    seems to know no more than I do. Have I learned more over the years,
    or does he know too little?

    He has been in the automotive business for over 30 years in many
    different capacities. He started in the business as an auto salesman and graduated quickly to automotive sales manager. His automotive past
    includes dealer service department management, finance and insurance
    manager, and service advisor. From 1991-2002 he has operated My
    Mechanic, an independent auto service facility in Randallstown.
    Currently, he operates Vehicle Service Plus in Bel Air.

    Not the best resume for his current radio job, is it? Btw, I drove by,
    still do, My Mechanic sometimes but it wasn't, isn't, close enough to go
    to the few times I need help.

    Not every call is about repair.

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to micky on Sat Jun 29 15:25:17 2024
    On 2024-06-29 15:04, micky wrote:
    Car repair radio.

    Caller says 2012 honda is overheating and engine fan is not spinning.
    Talk show host says there are two fans, one for when the engine gets
    hot, and one for when you turn the AC on. Is this true? I have no
    trouble believing that 1 goes on with the AC, but don't they both go on
    if needed for to keep the engine from getting too hot?

    I think you still need more coffee, this is also the wrong ng :-D


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    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From micky@21:1/5 to E.R." on Sat Jun 29 10:27:03 2024
    In comp.mobile.android, on Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:25:17 +0200, "Carlos
    E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

    On 2024-06-29 15:04, micky wrote:
    Car repair radio.

    Caller says 2012 honda is overheating and engine fan is not spinning.
    Talk show host says there are two fans, one for when the engine gets
    hot, and one for when you turn the AC on. Is this true? I have no
    trouble believing that 1 goes on with the AC, but don't they both go on
    if needed for to keep the engine from getting too hot?

    I think you still need more coffee, this is also the wrong ng :-D

    Yes, this is the second unintened ng I sent it to, after I noticed (and apologized to) the first one.

    It took a while to figure out how this happened. Up until about 6 months
    ago I used version 1.93 of Forte Agent. It has no tabs and would forget
    all the browswers/tabs/windows started during a session exscept for the
    last one. You could open more than one for different ngs, but the next
    time you'd only have one, and iirc any articles you were were writing
    also had to be sent or saved and reopened.

    Now I'm using version 5, which keeps tabs open across sessions, and
    that's very nice, but it only has room to display 13 of them. If you go
    above 13, it doesn't make the tabs any narrower, it pushes them off to
    the left. Right now I have 6 ngs open and on rare occasions, more than 7
    other tabs for unsent posts plus Sent, Drafts, or Outbox.

    Alt.home.repair is my left-most tab, but when I've more than 13 tabs,
    it's pushed out of sight off the page to the left. So the first time I
    made a real mistake, chose the wrong ng, but this time, I just went to
    the left most tab and posted there, but it was CMA instead of AHR. CMA
    is my 2nd tab from the left, but AHR to the left of it was not showing.
    This is the first time that this has tricked me, so maybe I'll notice
    before it happens again.

    It doesnt' halp that the top title line is rather dark blue and the name
    of the newsgroup there is black, and I can't read it without leaning
    half of the way to the screen. The ng in the composition window is easy
    to read, but I guess I didn't look at it.

    There are later versions of Agent, some of which my payment already
    entitle me to, but I don't think they handle this any differently.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg_Lorenz?=@21:1/5 to micky on Sat Jun 29 17:08:11 2024
    On 29.06.24 16:27, micky wrote:
    It took a while to figure out how this happened. Up until about 6 months
    ago I used version 1.93 of Forte Agent. It has no tabs and would forget

    Petrified decades ago. *SCNR*

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    "Alea iacta est." (Julius Caesar)

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