Recent content by nthach

I can’t do that. But I will gladly pay and split this for my table.

Between Terminal 1 and 3 at SFO.

It’s these: https://www.ironmantires.com/tire-details/imove-pt-plus DOT numbers start with 076 which I’ve seen on Sailun and Advanta tires, it’s a plant in Cambodia called General Tire Technology(not to be confused with Conti’s General): https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1291183.shtml

Some of those Ironmans are made by Toyo or Sailun. Sentury’s parent company(Qingdao Sentury) also makes the Landsail brand. My local America’s Tire moves a lot of those.

I’ve used the ceramic version of that on the Prius that’s parked outside for most of its life. It did a good job making oxidized single stage paint look good. Toyota doesn’t clearcoat their 040 Super White II/Ice Cap or 202 Black colors. From what I recall, I’ve used the non-ceramic version with...

Update - there’s a set of Ironman iMove PTs on it. Made in Cambodia by Sailun.

Well… https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/bugs/2026/07/millions-of-cars-could-be-tracked-and-unlocked-by-a-hidden-security-flaw

NADA and the automakers(except for Tesla, Lucid and Rivian) won’t let that happen. While AutoNation is a publicly-traded company, Sonic and Hendrick sell cars to fund their NASCAR/race track ventures.

Spireon is the new owner of LoJack. That’s a dealer installed one, and usually LoJack is baked into the addendum sticker or bought at the POS(F&I). The captive credit arms of the automakers usually have no incentive to install tracking devices. Now, a BHPH lot(or stores like DriveTime) or a...

Isn’t Yamabiko the modern successor to Kiortiz(Echo) and Shindaiwa? I see their name on the VECI label of modern Echo gear. My OPE shop who’s threatening to move his operations to FL had a Shindaiwa banner, and I could have swore I’ve seen Shindaiwa-labeled RedArmor oil there. The other one...

TBH, if it wasn’t a Toyota D3 filter, I liked running the FL400S on the 1/2UZ until Ford changed them years ago.

Not a car. Worked on scrapping a well-used Specialized Tricross with some terminal frame damage. It was a first generation gravel bike, but suffered from brake rotor rub that led to a microcrack in a chain stay. Also saw a cracked dropout opposite of the non-driveside. It served me faithfully...

Yazaki or Sumitomo makes the majority of the world’s wiring harnesses in the Philippines, Thailand or Mexico.

A friend has those - he said they’re decent tires. Those are made by Omni United. Most of the Mohave line is made by Sentury though.

The problem with that is only competition at least for retail is a certain family out of Arkansas who also has even more questionable practices. For cloud compute/SaaS, Microsoft finally got Azure to where they envisioned it to be. But, Azure doesn’t really align with AWS. Think of it as Active...