This weekend I decided to take the time to clean my winter steel rims for our two vehicles and touch them up with black paint. Even though this was their first winter, they still have a couple of spots that had rust on them. I have learned that to keep the looking half way decent you have to do this yearly.
Quote from: JohnnyMac on May 01, 2023, 08:28:01 amThis weekend I decided to take the time to clean my winter steel rims for our two vehicles and touch them up with black paint. Even though this was their first winter, they still have a couple of spots that had rust on them. I have learned that to keep the looking half way decent you have to do this yearly.The oem accessory rims from the Odyssey date back to 2012 and just by washing and waxing them yearly, they still look pretty good and have not been repainted yet. I was going to restore them before getting new snows.
Quote from: Blueprint on May 01, 2023, 08:36:58 amQuote from: JohnnyMac on May 01, 2023, 08:28:01 amThis weekend I decided to take the time to clean my winter steel rims for our two vehicles and touch them up with black paint. Even though this was their first winter, they still have a couple of spots that had rust on them. I have learned that to keep the looking half way decent you have to do this yearly.The oem accessory rims from the Odyssey date back to 2012 and just by washing and waxing them yearly, they still look pretty good and have not been repainted yet. I was going to restore them before getting new snows.Are they alloys or black steelie's? Our Santa Fe 18 inch alloys still look like new after 10.5 years, all I did was wash them regularly and waxed once per year.
My MIL, 87, still has the 2009 Rogue S awd that FIL (r.i.p.) bought new. She still drives locally, running errands (and maybe a few curbs ). The thing is old-person mint (ie not a speck of rust but scratches in the corners). Yesterday I checked the state of her tires and I'm surprised the mobile shop accepted to install her snow tires last year - they are date-coded 2008 So they were one year old already when FIL bought them new. No visible cracks, and plenty of thread due to maybe 200-300 km/year. If even that. I remembered tires being bought before my FIL passed, but it turns out these are the all-seasons, date coded 2013. So I just advised MIL to stay off the highway (don't think she would go there anyway) and just drive on the snows this summer. Local streets are all 30-40 km/h. We'll just mount new snows next fall. We'll see about the all-seasons if she's still fit to drive in 2024.
Quote from: Blueprint on May 01, 2023, 08:33:45 amMy MIL, 87, still has the 2009 Rogue S awd that FIL (r.i.p.) bought new. She still drives locally, running errands (and maybe a few curbs ). The thing is old-person mint (ie not a speck of rust but scratches in the corners). Yesterday I checked the state of her tires and I'm surprised the mobile shop accepted to install her snow tires last year - they are date-coded 2008 So they were one year old already when FIL bought them new. No visible cracks, and plenty of thread due to maybe 200-300 km/year. If even that. I remembered tires being bought before my FIL passed, but it turns out these are the all-seasons, date coded 2013. So I just advised MIL to stay off the highway (don't think she would go there anyway) and just drive on the snows this summer. Local streets are all 30-40 km/h. We'll just mount new snows next fall. We'll see about the all-seasons if she's still fit to drive in 2024.Why even wait? 10-year old tires wouldn't be okay with me - I'd be mounting new all-seasons NOW. Even cheap Chinese tires would be way better (and probably sufficient for their needs) over dry-cracked 10-year old ones, or 2008 winters.
I wouldn't replace those tires. They aren't going to blow and speeds of 40 kmph? .
Trying to track down a parasitic draw on the Porsche's battery. Battery is about two years old but goes flat when left for a week or so. Today it wouldn't even boost with a booster pack - needed to leave it plugged into a trickle for a couple of hours to allow enough juice to let a booster pack start the car.Might be the glovebox light, or the hardwired dash cam.
Finally got the Miata out of the MIL's garage....and the battery is dead, like won't take a good charge.It's only a year old, left it on overnight with my CTEK, arrived this morning to a fault and barely charged battery. Put a higher amp charger on it for an hour, still nothing, so boosted and drove it home. Will try again with the CTEK, but think it's garbage.
Quote from: TheHire on May 06, 2023, 02:00:39 pmTrying to track down a parasitic draw on the Porsche's battery. Battery is about two years old but goes flat when left for a week or so. Today it wouldn't even boost with a booster pack - needed to leave it plugged into a trickle for a couple of hours to allow enough juice to let a booster pack start the car.Might be the glovebox light, or the hardwired dash cam.Good bottle of scotch , a multimeter, and fuse by fuse looking for draw.
Quote from: blur911 on May 06, 2023, 01:13:26 pmFinally got the Miata out of the MIL's garage....and the battery is dead, like won't take a good charge.It's only a year old, left it on overnight with my CTEK, arrived this morning to a fault and barely charged battery. Put a higher amp charger on it for an hour, still nothing, so boosted and drove it home. Will try again with the CTEK, but think it's garbage.Was it a proper miata battery or just a lead acid ?
