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  1. ChapmanF replied to the thread Air conditioner.

    I think my mom's 1972 Dodge Colt (a rebadged Mitsubishi Galant-like thing) is the first car I remember us having where the high beams...

    Jul 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM

  2. ChapmanF replied to the thread Wildfire worries: Thank G for battery tools.

    I've heard it said that otters are kinda vicious critters. Maybe they don't seem that way if you're one yourself.

    Jul 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM

  3. ChapmanF replied to the thread Why Prius ECU can't reduce battery temperature while Dr Prius app can?.

    I've now seen evidence that your car exhibits wacky VMF readings that don't seem to correlate to the automatically-selected control...

    Jul 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM

  4. ChapmanF replied to the thread Wrapping stock intake with tinfoil bubble and then heat resistant wrap?.

    Well, given the OP's rather peculiar definition of 'redlining', there's probably not a lot of lifespan effect to be expected from doing...

    Jul 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM

  5. ChapmanF replied to the thread Wildfire worries: Thank G for battery tools.

    Me too. When I come to PriusChat, I always think that I'll see you again.

    Jul 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM

  6. ChapmanF replied to the thread I find the cause of my problem...finally!.

    That's the usual story for a lot of weird-shaped, largely-empty dealer auto parts: $  9.00 plastic $  1.00 foam $ 30.00...

    Jul 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM

  7. ChapmanF replied to the thread Oddity with 12V battery voltage measurements andtranmission.

    I think there is a thread around here where somebody (it may have been RGeB) posted a graphed datalog of converter output voltage during...

    Jul 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM

  8. ChapmanF replied to the thread Found a sensor (P02).

    That there is a dead ringer for an oil pressure warning switch. Maybe it's there because a mechanic replaced yours once and that's the...

    Jul 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM

  9. ChapmanF replied to the thread Is changing the TPM battery impractical?.

    There are aftermarket sensors whose IDs can be programmed, using a tool that does that. By contrast, the original sensors (and their...

    Jul 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM

  10. ChapmanF replied to the thread Thermostat Question.

    The flow is from the output of the engine, through the cabin heater, then splitting off between the EHRS and the EGR cooler. So, during...

    Jul 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM

  11. ChapmanF replied to the thread "Hundred year <weather>".

    Meta-nitpicking: 'nitpicking' is about trivial issues in posts, not about changing other people's words, misrepresenting what topic was...

    Jul 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM

  12. ChapmanF replied to the thread Thermostat Question.

    No other that I know of, but I'm not claiming to know everything.

    Jul 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM

  13. ChapmanF attached a file to the thread America's Manufacturing Failure (Autoline After Hours).

    What's weird to me about the whole Pinto story is the constant regeneration of new content about it. It happened a long time ago, even...

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  14. ChapmanF replied to the thread Thermostat Question.

    No, if you read my posts in that thread carefully, you will see that the only automatic engine shutdown that is mentioned in the manual,...

    Jul 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM

  15. ChapmanF replied to the thread "Hundred year <weather>".

    Notice the word I used was 'unbounded', not 'unfounded', and in the portion of your post that I quoted, what you were speculating about...

    Jul 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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