I had a scary moment yesterday. I was hauling a load of pallet racking I won at auction and a car pulled in front of me just as the light was turning yellow. She decided to stop and I was squealing all the way. I lifted off the brake for a moment and was able to steer into the empty right lane… She looked up at me and realized what a bone head move she had done. I smiled and shook my head. Of course now I need to check my trailer brakes as they didn’t leave any marks like my truck did. I rewired the trailer 2 years ago but something isn’t right. Also I was boneheaded too, I should have checked my trailer brakes before loading. Glad no damage or anyone hurt.
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I checked the wiring and the ground wire in the plug had come loose. Hooked that back up and I have brakes working on the front axle but not the rear. There are some lights not working so I’m going over the whole wiring thing again. I’m going to check all the brake linings too.
The ride is abysmal as it is, so I’m gonna just grab the Super Sport tires. Thanks all for the replies. It seems as though there is no summer tire that will do well in cold, pretty much across the board lol.
Yellow Hella headlights really cut through bad weather.
I also upgraded the plugs to handle the brighter wattage, covered the lens with 3M stone protection film and added the LED running lights in the grille.
Dayum. This Spark is way more more efficient than the Leaf in city driving, probably because the regen is way stronger (feels twice as strong), I almost never had to use the friction brakes.
Supposedly if I keep driving though town the way I was, I would have gotten over 100 miles (161km) (yellow arrow) out of this car that’s rated for 82 miles (132km). This was with light A/C (wether was mostly nice), and 3-4 miles of freeway driving (65+).
I stopped caring about miles when I reached 50 miles with the potential to go 100, and went back to having fun, but here’s the dash when I got home.
Noticed that even though I had the efficiency meter (yellow arrow) pinned to min it still suggested I could go over 90 miles (145km).
You have so much you can do in this car there’s no way you could be bored lol. You can challenge yourself to drive as efficiently as you can, or enjoy it’s impressive pep, and tossibility.
I never held up any traffic whatsoever in order to get these results (I refuse to be that guy).
Edit: To give you an idea of how much more efficient the Spark is, this type of driving is what you’d have to do to achieve the rated miles of 82 in the Leaf, and I never saw more than 4.2 miles per kilowatt in the leaf, this was getting well over 6 (over 7 at times) miles per kilowatt.
Yeah, we’ve got 14KW of panels on the house. Kinda insane, when you consider. We figured it would be good to do the install in preparation for Electric vehicles since we’re going to eventually buy them. We are on net metering, so we pay the difference at the end of the year. We just got paid $3200 for last year. That’s about 1.7MWh, if I remember correctly.
I had a police officer pull me over and kept me on the side of the road for an hour to bust me for the window tint and yellow lights. He was using the onboard computer in his cruiser to search CopGoogle. He found no laws against yellow lights. My tint is in legal compliance from the dealer.
Hmm. I haven’t priced out a DIY system yet, but I would have thought you could do it yourself cheaper. Guess I’ll have to look into this more sometime.
