Anybody got any reasonably good ideas/sources on how to troubleshoot an intermittent issue where the rear running lights (and license plate light) don't light up while the headlights are turned on during times of day when it is cool/cold and damp? Which, coincidently is when it is dark outside making this issue very inconvienient.

Breaklights work, blinkers work, hazards work. Bulbs are okay.

Checked all the fuses and replaced the headlight control switch. Things worked yesterday afternoon when it was sunny and hot but not today in the early AM while its cool and damp.

I've never "tested the grounding" and haven't had the time to skim through every "how to" video to weed out all the ones that just say to check fuses/bulbs and then take it to a mechanic.

One of the rear light covers is cracked. Would there be a chance that condensation in there would be enough to short out the running light circuit but not all the other light circuits?

This thing is pretty funny tho

Tried to do my brakes for the first time and I think I fucked something up. When I tried to drive for a second in the neighborhood, it sounded a bit grindy, and the rotors had these black streaks on them (picture above). Can anyone help figure out where I messed up and suggest steps to sort it out?

I did front rotors, pads and a brake fluid bleed today on a 6th gen Fiesta. The back are drum brakes, so I left them for now.

Edit: Some air in the brake line was keeping the caliper from closing right. Bleeding the brakes a second time, but with help, sorted the problem out! Thanks for all the help.

You will break the car! We will not finish!

The first few paragraphs. Emphasis mine.

In the rural suburbs of Hiroshima, a Japanese startup is trying to kick-start the nation’s electric vehicle market with the smallest, cheapest car it can possibly make. KG Motors has developed a battery-powered one-seater that more resembles a futuristic golf cart than it does a modern EV, much less a traditional car. And yet well over half of the 3,300 units it plans to deliver by March 2027 have already been pre-sold to customers.

Incidentally, that puts it on track to sell more EVs in Japan than the world’s biggest automaker, Toyota Motor, which shifted around such 2,000 vehicles in all of 2024. In a country where EVs are still a rare sight, KG Motors is trying to bust a burgeoning myth: that bigger is better. "Cars are simply too big,” founder and Chief Executive Officer Kazunari Kusunoki said. "Seeing so many big cars traveling Japan’s narrow streets — that’s where this all began for me.”

At under 1.5 meters in height, KG Motors’ Mibot has a range of 100 kilometers, a charging time of five hours and a top speed of 60 kilometers per hour. It will cost ¥1 million ($7,000) before tax when production starts in October at KG Motors’ new factory east of the city. That’s about half the price of Japan’s most popular EV, Nissan’s Sakura.

I wonder what he would think if he came to a typical American city and saw all the AMERICAN-SIZED monstrous SUVs and trucks.

The girls and the gays don't care about your 8,5L Turbo V12, they care about how your perfectly square headlights have their own iddy-bitty wipers. They also think your car looks like something coffins get transported in but whatever.

Yes this is a twin turbo RX-7 limo, and yes it is real. In fact it is currently on sale lol

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4836183

(my helmet says "CCCP")