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ChapmanF replied to the thread Reverse polarity.
No fuse in the car's 12-volt system has the HV battery on any side of it. The horn is on the same side of the 100-amp fuse with the...
Jun 1, 2026 at 10:26 PM -
ChapmanF replied to the thread Reverse polarity.
Oh, the island comes out through the bottom of the fusebox. Yuck. With every Prius generation whose wiring diagram I've looked at, I...
Jun 1, 2026 at 9:14 PM -
ChapmanF replied to the thread Better MPG on rolling hills than in the flats?.
Fifteen years!
Jun 1, 2026 at 5:39 PM -
ChapmanF replied to the thread Headlights are consistently dim and orangey.
You might want to scan the package closely for an actual voltage rating; there might be one like this: [img] Still, your measured...
Jun 1, 2026 at 5:09 PM -
ChapmanF replied to the thread Sandy Munro and China proof.
The community theatre here also puts on very good productions most of the time. Occasional misses. I remember a Tartuffe where the...
Jun 1, 2026 at 2:53 PM -
ChapmanF replied to the thread What did you do to ur Gen III Prius today????.
Those say rears. I didn't see $22 pricing for fronts even at the local jobber. If there had been choices at that price, say some that...
Jun 1, 2026 at 2:36 PM -
ChapmanF replied to the thread Sandy Munro and China proof.
Your reply is to the part of my post that was about football, but if you also mean the part that was about theatre, where the...
Jun 1, 2026 at 2:09 PM -
ChapmanF replied to the thread Reverse polarity.
Haven't seen as many posts about this for gen 1, maybe just because there weren't many gen 1s made. These are common posts in gen 2 and...
Jun 1, 2026 at 1:48 PM -
ChapmanF replied to the thread Sandy Munro and China proof.
I dunno, can I resonate a little with the "so much money" part while not resonating with the "so little value" part? You mention...
Jun 1, 2026 at 1:30 PM -
ChapmanF replied to the thread AC stops working at slow speeds in traffic.
And an electric water pump and I guess half as many front fans.
Jun 1, 2026 at 11:47 AM -
ChapmanF replied to the thread Sandy Munro and China proof.
It so happens I live not far from a university with a pretty good theatre department. The people leaving here with their MFAs might end...
Jun 1, 2026 at 11:38 AM -
ChapmanF replied to the thread Connected Services and Toyota Selling Your Telemetry.
AVN is the navigation unit. I don't know why it's AVN. I might have known once. It's not just that they turned the letters NAV inside...
Jun 1, 2026 at 10:56 AM -
ChapmanF replied to the thread The toxic tyrannical culture that killed Volkswagen.
I'm not sure what has changed in the cost with the newer ones. In all the manuals I've owned, access to the clutch merely required...
Jun 1, 2026 at 10:48 AM -
ChapmanF replied to the thread How much is your local "Trump at the Pump Tax?".
“This isn’t like a cookie jar. Those barrels have got to be put back at some point and that will lead to higher prices,” said Matt...
Jun 1, 2026 at 10:38 AM -
ChapmanF replied to the thread What did you do to ur Gen III Prius today????.
My own leanings are toward stupid cheap sensible rotors that look like rotors. :) When I did my rears four years ago, I ➡used the house...
Jun 1, 2026 at 10:27 AM
