Sounds like a light trip magnet. Used on vehicles that don't have enough steel to reliably trip traffic lights and other magnetic switch items.
I have them on my motorcycles so you don't need to wait for the timer.
Sounds like a light trip magnet. Used on vehicles that don't have enough steel to reliably trip traffic lights and other magnetic switch items.
I have them on my motorcycles so you don't need to wait for the timer.
Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B wrote in news:Lxk7p.15131$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe20.iad:
I thought Linux was supposed to be more stable than a Swiss government.
It is. And if the computer itself dies, the easy solution is to transplant the hard drive into a new computer and keep going. So I am a little curious what Hachiroku is doing...
--scott
It is, unless the computer is owned by an idiot, who also happens to be a Dell service tech who lives with his mother.
I've found two shortcomings with Linux over the years...
1) if your power quality sucks (to the point where you have several short outages every day) and you don't have a UPS, eventually things will become corrupt to the point where it won't boot. 2) I haven't had any luck with ANY proprietary video drivers with Linux - I've used both Intel and ATI and while ATI is *better,* it's still not perfect. Both my boxen have ATI video right now, thankfully. Intel on Ubuntu 10.04 is not pretty.nate
I rebuilt the entire front end on my old Pontiac, all new bushings, ball joints, tie rods. I lined everything up by eye and when I took it in for alignment all they had to adjust was the toe. I did the toe with a tape measure but it was still off quite a bit. You should at least have your alignment checked, if the toe is off very much it can drive ok but will wear the tires out fairly fast.
You find decent instructions online for DIY alignment.
If there is a wired device located near the magnetic box with a bright yellow wire loom, it could be part of the supplemental restraint system. Under normal conditions, the magnet holds a switch in the open position, but in a crash, inertia overcomes the magnet's pull, the switch closes, the same thing happens to another switch, and when 2 switches close, the air bags deploy.
BTW, Toyota does not use magnets in its SRS.
OK, it's not for the SRS. I have no idea what it's for.
That box with the magnet is likely for a key to hide on the vehicle somewhere.
I used the same thing on each of my daughter's first cars. came in handy 3-4 times.
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