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Let me show you a picture that was posted today on the Facebook page of one of our favorite local bottle shops, Sam's Quick Shop, featuring beer that they've just had arrive.
I have one word for this: gross.
Amazingly, that doesn't have a whole lot to do with the fact that I think that pumpkin beer is vaguely disgusting. I know a lot of people like it and they should be saying "gross" too. The date today, in case you don't feel like looking at the byline, is July 13. We are now 21 days since the first day of summer. That's not even a whole month. These beers are for autumn and, ostensibly, to fall in around those "pumpkin" holidays that you like to think of: Halloween, when people wear pumpkins, and Thanksgiving, the only time when people actually eat them. The nearest of those is 109 days away. The latter is 130 days away. Over 6 months.
Now, I'm all for seasonal beers. After all, I started an all-seasonal brewery. We've got a pumpkin-like beer in the planning, and we'll be releasing it the week of Halloween. You know, when it's in season. Pumpkin beers present a unique challenge for brewers and I want to talk about it here to highlight the insanity of a pumpkin beer hitting stores in July and why it is so wrong and why you, the drinker, should boycott that utter bullshit.
According to the Farmer's Almanac which is, in my New-England-grown-mind, the best possible place to find information on farming, pumpkins have a very long growing season. 75 – 100 days. In northern growing zones, they often require starting seeds 2 – 3 weeks before the last spring frost. In North Carolina, where I am now, the last frost of the year is generally around April 15th. We are the coldest of the 3 warmest growing zones in the U.S. (Zone 7). Zone 9 (the warmest that you can grow pumpkins in) sees its last frost around February 15th.
So, for the sake of arguing, let's use Zone 9 as the source of all the pumpkins used for pumpkin beers in the U.S., ignoring completely that we are a niche of a niche market for pumpkin production. A 90-day growing season with a last frost on February 15th puts harvest time right around May 15th. That is the absolute earliest you could possibly have pumpkins available. Let's also assume that the entire crop was harvested in a day and that those pumpkins were then picked, processed, washed, chopped, pureed, and then sent to every brewery within, oh, 12 hours of coming off of the field. Let's assume that every brewery had overnight shipping of their pumpkins, and that they were waiting, with empty mash tun, for the pumpkins to arrive in their brewery on May 16th.
For beer to hit the shelves with fresh pumpkin in it on July 13th, you would have had to brew, ferment, condition, carbonate, package, ship, order, pick, and deliver all of that beer in 44 days. Sometime last year, I saw a study (and I'm sorry, I can't find it now – I believe it was something by Sam Adams/Jim Koch at the Wholesaler's Assoc. Conference last year), that showed that, on average, for a widely distributed (ie – not local) brand, there is a 5-week lag between when beer leaves a brewery and when it arrives on a retailer's shelf. 5 weeks. That means for beer to arrive on July 13 on a shelf, it left the brewery June 1st, which gives the brewery a grand total of 2 weeks from the earliest possible arrival of pumpkins.
Here's a most likely scenario: This beer was brewed back in March or April using canned, drummed, or imported pumpkin puree – assuming there is actually pumpkin in your pumpkin beer and not just pumpkin pie spices. Your seasonal beer is, by definition, not seasonal as it is almost definitely not using seasonal ingredients (ie – ingredients that are IN SEASON.)
I know that might sound insane, but I hear tell that Great Lakes Brewing Company is currently brewing their Christmas Ale. In July. Wrap your mind around that as we go through the rest of the article talking about pumpkin beers.
Note: Redacted! Brewed for Christmas in July to my delight! Hooray! Fresh!
Right on. Now let's talk about the shelf life of beer and how MOST (but not all) bottle shops, bars, and restaurants keep their beer in storage.
Beer is a perishable product. Its shelf life is short. On average, when beer is kept at a cool temperature (50 degrees is great, colder is better), the shelf life of a beer is about 90 days. 3 months. When beer is kept warm, that shelf life drops significantly and can be as short as 30 days, but usually you're talking 45 – 60 days on average for a craft beer that's kept at room temperature. The hotter a beer is kept, the shorter its shelf life is.
To be clear, what we're talking about here isn't spoilage at 60 days, it isn't when the beer will go sour or anything incredibly disgusting. Those are infection problems. The end of shelf life is the point at which off-flavors will show up, most often oxidation and staling flavors, most notably cardboard-y/wet newspaper-y flavors. By this point, most-to-all of the hop character has diminished from the beer, and the chances of carbohydrates and proteins precipitating out in the bottle in the form of chunks or flakes is much higher. Is the beer drinkable? Sure, and it might taste okay. But it is not and can not be as good as it was when it was a fresh beer. Fresh beer is good beer.
There are a few things that can increase the shelf life of a beer:
1) High alcohol. In general, the beer will still oxidize and stale, but in the case of higher alcohol beers the staling flavors will probably be more pleasant, but that's not always the case. Sometimes old beers, even high alcohol ones, just taste old and nasty. Aging is a gamble.
2) Pasteurization. In this scenario, you flash heat the beer in the package to kill any spoilage organisms that are in the package. This also has the effect of slightly arresting the aging process and can significantly change the flavor profile of a beer. A pasteurized beer can be good on the shelf upwards of 6 months.
Most small breweries do not pasteurize their beer. I don't have strict numbers on this, but if I had to guess the number of breweries pasteurizing their packages, I would say "less than 10% of breweries." I could be wrong and if anybody knows, I'd welcome that information.
Kegs are not, and can not be, pasteurized. You just can't heat the liquid fast enough. That's one of the reasons that beer can taste different on tap than it does in bottles – I mean, aside from age and the fact that kegs are often kept cold.
Okay – lesson in shelf life over. Let's talk about how beer is kept. Fortunately, distributors are getting pretty good at keeping beer. That might sound a little snarky, but for a long time distributors weren't really equipped to deal with the fact that they've got 500 different brands of beer to move around. They were moving 6 – 10 brands. Not 60 – 100, or 600 – 750, so for a long time distributors didn't have great warehouse space to keep beer cold. We're past that now and most distributors are pretty good, notwithstanding the fact that they have to order things in, get them shipped, get them in inventory, and organize them before they can sell them, and then finally deliver them which adds weeks onto the distribution process and takes weeks off of the life of a beer.
Now, think about your favorite bottle shop. The one you always go to because they have the most diverse selection of beer available. Okay, good? Now, how much of that beer is cold? The 5 of you that thought, "all of it!" are really lucky. The rest of you are thinking about shelves and shelves and shelves of beer that are sitting there, warm. Warm beer has a significantly shorter shelf life. If the same beer has been on a warm shelf for over a month, it's probably old and stale.
So, now, you've got pumpkin beer arriving at a store on July 13. It is already a few weeks old. It's a hot summer and nobody's shopping for pumpkin beers right now so it's going to sit on the shelf for – what? A month, before somebody even considers buying it? Two?
You've got seasonal beer arriving in the hottest part of the summer and sitting around until it's stale before it's ever being sold.
You know why? Because the sales figures show that pumpkin beers are popular, and so people make more and more pumpkin beers and, of course, instead of just making the best pumpkin beer they possibly can (challenge enough in itself), they strive to make the first.
And you know what's most disgusting? People buy it.
So, to summarize my thesis: Seasonal creep – the fact that these seasonal beers keep coming out earlier and earlier – is training you to buy and enjoy old, stale beer.
Why do you stand for that? Do you go to the store and buy old vegetables? No! You would bring that shit back in a heartbeat and complain. You don't buy old stale bread why do you buy old stale beer?
I think it's time for people to take seasonality back: Stop buying seasonal beer out of season – and if something is old on the shelf, leave it there. Don't fall for that marketing garbage. Instead, actually drink something that's well-made, good, and fresh; don't buy crap made with old ingredients that sits old on the shelf. You deserve something better for the price you're going to pay for it.
There are so many great beers – and great TRULY SEASONAL beers – available fresh from your local brewery. Drink those instead.
This past weekend, while we were running our little temporary taproom experiment over at Mystery, somebody – one of the fine patrons that came and joined us that evening – stole a poster from the bathroom of our office.
It was a kind of a cheap poster, but it was fun – the Awdrey-Gore Legacy poster by Edward Gorey. It's a little murder-mystery poster, a little macabre and a little funny. Moreover, it was my wife's poster and we'd had it hanging in our house for a while, but we brought it into the brewery when we opened up mainly so that the bathroom would stop looking so empty. So, while it sucks, it's not like someone stole our smoker or anything. It wasn't anything of significant monetary value, or even something of practical value, but something of sentimental value, instead.
And that is precisely why it pisses me off so much.
Here we are – we're a young business. We're still getting our feet under us and trying to get a solid footing in the market. We're not rich. We work our asses off to pay the bills just like everybody else. So, we've opened up our doors to try to stay engaged with people while we're struggling to get our taproom open and somebody comes in and, essentially, betrays our trust and our hospitality by stealing something of literally no value.
Dear asshat – go and buy your own fucking poster. That one belongs to my wife. And while you can now put it up in your house and say, "Oh my god! Isn't this cool? I totally took this from Mystery!" Any person's response to that statement should be: "Wow. You're a douchebag." In fact, do yourself a favor, save your money – don't buy my beer, and go buy a poster instead so that way I don't have to waste my time and money replacing it.
When I asked my staff if they knew it was missing, the overall response was something along the lines of, "What did you expect to happen when we started letting people in here?" and I think that is the saddest most sorry statement against humanity I have ever heard. That's what I have to expect from fans of craft beer? Petty theft? Aren't you better than that?
That's exactly the kind of bullshit that makes it difficult to run a small business and difficult for us to justify letting people into our business, into our office, and into our lives. If you think it's cool to steal a poster, what else are we going to have to replace? What else in the brewery has gone missing that we haven't noticed yet? We're trying to get people in here to make sure that we have enough money to operate, and it's not going to fly if we have to replace even a few small things every time we let people in here. And what happens when it's not something small and it's something big? Damage to our equipment or stealing something that's vital to our operation could literally shut us down permanently.
So, to whomever of you who has decided that the cool and hip thing to do is to go into a small business and steal something: Fuck you. That business that you stole from isn't some fancy mega corporation and walking into it should have been able to tell you that. You didn't steal from the man, you stole from me and from my employees and the hours and hours of work we put in every day so that you can enjoy that beer you came in and had. I'm so glad that we engendered enough of your respect that you felt like you had to take something from us.
Please, take this as a token of my respect for you: don't ever come back.
I am writing this post because I get an e-mail or a phone call almost every single day from a person asking me how to do this and so this is partly to help people and partly to slow the deluge of e-mail and phone calls.
As anybody who has viewed this blog for any length of time is probably aware, I am the guy behind Mystery Brewing Company. I originally launched the brewery as a Kickstarter campaign. The original idea was to do alternating proprietorship – a form of contract brewing – but that idea fell through and we now operate a fully functioning brick-and-mortar brewery. I won't go through that whole story right now, because I already have. Read it here. We're not a nano, but we're not huge. We are, however, having a blast.
I don't think I was the first to try, but I'm pretty sure I was the first to get funded, the largest funded (so far), and I might be the first operational Kickstarter brewery. I make no promises that those claims are true, but I think they are.
So, because of this success, I am asked often for advice by other budding entrepreneurs about how to start a brewery using Kickstarter. Let me give you this bullet list:
1. It can't be done
Okay. That's kind of glib. But consider this: I raised ~$44,000 via Kickstarter, which seems like a lot of money, right? I mean.. it is. It's like median yearly income for an American family right now or something silly like that.
For a 7bbl brewery that doesn't even pay for kegs. It certainly doesn't pay for a brewhouse. It's 6 fermenters. It's the cost of plumbing and glycol piping. You get the idea.
Okay, now remember: You owe taxes on that money. You're a business now and you need to pay taxes on any income that you make. So that $44,000, after the cut that Amazon and Kickstarter take is closer to $40,000, and then closer to $35,000 after you pay even the most modest of income taxes on it. Then you have to pay for those prizes that you're sending out to people plus postage (postage is expensive – one Priority Mail package to 250 people = $1,000 minimum), so now you're down to $30,000 or so, maybe lower. That's more like 4 fermenters.
The point is this: You need, need, NEED alternate sources of funding. Don't count on the SBA. Regardless of what they tell you they are not interested in funding startups unless there is absolutely no risk involved (ie – you are putting in an enormous amount of capital already), same goes for banks. You need to have a lot of your own money in the bank, ready to go, or a few angel investors willing to put up at least $150,000, probably more. The total cost to starting up a 7bbl brewery, right now, with the prices of stainless and the dearth of decent used equipment, is just north of $500,000.
2. Go big or go home.
For a blog that gets more hits on an article about nanobreweries, than pretty much anything else, I am still not convinced that they are a completely viable business model. If you're planning on starting a nanobrewery, you NEED a taproom if you want the business to be completely self-sustaining. There just aren't enough hours in the day to brew enough beer, otherwise. If you don't have a way to sell per pint, you need to find an alternate form of income.
If you're still interested in going the Kickstarter route:
3. You need a pre-established community to support you.
I hate to say this, but if you don't have a local community that's ready to see you start a brewery, you're going to have a difficult time finding that funding. When I started my Kickstarter campaign, I was the only brewery that had a "currently funding" project. Today there are 12 in funding and I know of at many MANY more who are looking at it, so you need some way to make yours stand out. It's going to be YOU. That's it. You and your local community. Use it. That community is your friends, your parents, their friends, their friends of friends, etc. I knew 50% of the people that backed me on Kickstarter personally. Of the rest, most of those knew one of my other backers. That network is even more important now that it used to be, because you're not the only person trying to do this.
4. Have decent rewards.
People are going to back you for more reasons than just helping you start a brewery, and it's not because they want another crappy shaker pint. It's about the experience. They want something that's going to make them feel special. They also want something that seems like it's worth their while. $100 for a t-shirt is shitty. $100 for a t-shirt, a sticker, a pint glass, and a bottle opener is less shitty, but throw in a personalized beer recipe and you're starting to talk business. Don't skimp on prizes, people will skimp on contributing. They're nice people, but they want a reward.
5. You need to work on it EVERY DAY.
That means you need to go bother people every day. You need to write press releases and contact every network you've ever been a part of. Go give a talk to your grandparents' retirement home and contact your college alumni magazine. Call your hometown newspaper and get your mom to talk about it at her bridge club. Call people you used to work with and old friends from elementary school. If you aren't pushing it as hard as you can and being excited about it, then why should anybody else? Making that campaign work is a full time job. It won't come to you, you need to go get it.
6. Don't forget where you came from.
After you've made it and you're successful, make sure you don't forget where you came from. I will be sending out Kickstarter prizes for years. No shit. Half of my donors probably think I've completely forgotten about them. I haven't. These people are the reason I had the balls to start my brewery and I have so, so many plans for ways to thank them that go above and beyond what I originally planned in the Kickstarter campaign. And you might ask yourself – why? What do I owe them now? They are the original community around my business. Any and every small business is about people. It's about the community, and these are your starter community. They are your early evangelists. Take care of them and they will continue to take care of you.
7. Stop asking me for help.
Okay, that's a little glib, too. But I can't tell you how to make you successful. It's your business, make it your own and come up with your own cool ideas and tactics. I can give you all of the advice in the world, but ultimately you won't be successful by using my model, because it's mine and, like I said, small business is about the people. You're not me (I hope), and so you need to go find what works for you.
Good luck! It's a shitload of work, but the reward of having all of those people believe in your idea is worth every hour you spend on it, and worth far, FAR more than the amount of money that you might raise.
I'm going to diverge from beer for a moment because everybody on the internet needs to hear – read… whatever – this. This tweet, or Facebook posting. I see it every day:
OMG! Just 10 more followers and we have 1,000! We're like totally going to give away a SOMETHING AWESOME to our 1,000th follower! Tell your friends! Will you be the lucky one!?!?!?11?3FCtrl-H
No. I won't. You know why? Because I already follow you. And thank you so much for acknowledging that by giving a SOMETHING AWESOME away to somebody who doesn't currently follow you. Why should I tell my friends? That doesn't reward me at all. That rewards them. What I should really do is stop following you and watch your total to see when you get close to 1,000 and then just unfollow you and refollow you again and again until I'm the 1,000th. That's stupid.
Give a SOMETHING AWESOME away to a random follower at that round number. Give a few. Give everybody who currently follows you a link to a free download that's only available for a short amount of time – but they know about because they follow you! Go hold some sort public media whatsit at that round number. Send out a thank you message to all of those people wasting their time by following you. Do something to acknowledge the fact that a lot of people have decided that you're interesting enough to listen to. Rewarding somebody who doesn't currently pay attention to you is insulting to all of the people that do.
This article is a followup to The Long Winding Path to Startup; call it part of the Mystery Brewing startup series, if you will.
So, here it comes. We're entering the last month before we finally, finally, should be opening our doors. In the next 2 – 3 weeks, according to every vendor and government agent that I've spoken to, we're going to see all of our equipment arrive AND our federal licensing. From there, I'm hoping that the rest of installation is a snap and that state and local licensing is a breeze. We'd like to have beer in tanks by Christmas, and we'd like to launch the New Year with some Mystery Brewing Company beer.
This is by no means a guarantee, but it's what I sincerely and deeply hope will happen.
Let me share with you, like in the last article, the phrase that's been driving me nuts, lately:
"While Mystery has yet to announce an opening date…"
It's not a terrible phrase. It's normally surrounded by other nice phrases and words like "highly anticipated" or "exciting." But, deep inside it makes me feel like there's somehow the suggestion that we're being lazy about getting open or that we just don't know, and it's far from the case. If it was my choice, I would have been open months ago. Keeping a manufacturing business moving toward market without having the ability to create any sort of income is, to put it succinctly, terrifying. At the same time, as I said before, I'm sensitive to creating too much buzz before we know when things are going to shake out.
So, before I start cranking up the hype machine, let me share the continuing saga. When we left off back in July, I had just received word from the bank that, yes, indeed, they were going to be able to fund the equipment in the brewery. I was pretty excited, as was probably evident from that article, and hopeful that it meant that, given the 18 – 24 weeks that companies need to put equipment together and get it to you, that we'd be up and running in the fall. You can see now, in December, that it hasn't happened quite like that.
Part of that is because we didn't actually sign on that bank loan until October.
I'm not one for throwing out figures or naming names, but I will write this as a warning to other startups: I have spent tens of thousands of dollars waiting for banks and loan programs to get paperwork across their collective desks. My aggregate total waiting time for the SBA to turn me down (twice) has been 6 months. Had I known all of this, I would have asked the bank for money to cover the amount of capital that I spent just waiting. Now, it's lost, unrecoverable, startup cost. It's money that I can't spend on equipment or upfit or other useful startup items. It's money gone to lease, utilities, and enough money for me to pay my mortgage and eat while I was waiting for other people to shuffle papers across their collective desks. I'm not bitter (well, okay, a little), but it should be a warning: Calculate the amount of money you'll need to not get anything done, because there will be a lot of not getting things done.
In the meantime, though, we tried to keep ourselves busy.
First of all, I say we because in September, when things were getting too busy for me to really handle on my own, I brought a friend on staff to help me. Chris and I met via Twitter, and he and his lovely wife Jen have been great friends ever since. It has been just an incredible boon to have him on my side and helping me out. In fact, I am sure that without him we would be much farther from opening than we are now.
So, together, Chris and I have worked toward getting Mystery going as best as we can without the ability to a) make any sort of large amount of beer (y'know – we can homebrew) and b) make any sort of income. We've been getting involved in events where we can, pouring casks when possible (so long as money doesn't change hands), and trying to be as up front and visible as we can without building up too much insane hype ahead of schedule. We might have failed that last goal by pouring at the World Beer Festival in Durham this fall, where we had a line all day. It was pretty awesome to be there, but not so great to have to tell people that there was no place to find our beer. Soon, people! Soon!
Over the course of the fall I wrote a book and had the fantastic opportunity to visit almost every brewery in the state of North Carolina. Recently, as a companion business to Mystery and with the help of Derrick Smith of Hillsborough's Wooden Nickel Pub, we opened Nash Street Homebrew, a homebrew shop that seeks to fill a niche in the Western Triangle and far Eastern Triad.
They're both opportunities that sort of fell into my lap. The book – and I've mentioned this in another blog post months ago – came to me, rather than me looking for a place to publish, and while I'm glad I did it, I don't think I could have chosen a worse time to attempt to write a book. Starting a brewery takes a lot of your time, even when there's no brewery there. Throw a few dozen road trips and hours and hours and hours and hours of research, writing, and editing on top of that and.. well.. let's just say that I haven't slept much in the last few months. I had originally wanted to chronicle my entire trip via the blog, but it became apparent to me very quickly that I had enough writing to do to put the book together. Writing a second book online while I was doing the first was just foolhardy.
You can see a all of the photos that I took, many of which will be in the book (and don't you dare re-use these without permission) over on Flickr.
The homebrew shop was very much the same way. Without getting into boring specifics, the opportunity and the idea were presented to me together and it seemed too good an opportunity to pass up. It helps that I have Derrick and Chris to help in the setup and management of the shop. All I basically need to do is manage the business end of things. It's a great thing to have good partners.
All in all, things are coming together nicely and I'm optimistic for the future. We've had some rough times over the past few years, and the opportunity for rough times still exists. If we don't see TTB licensing this month, things are going to get dodgy really fast, so we're looking at a couple of ways to make it less dodgy for us as our final pre-opening month comes to a close.
I won't go all NPR pledge drive on you (I've done that here on this post at Mystery), but this week we'll be launching our Irregulars program, named after the Baker Street Irregulars of Sherlock Holmes fame.* It will be a comprehensive Mystery membership club that includes all kinds of fun swag (a membership kit!), opportunities to get unique Mystery beers, early admission into Mystery events, chances to brew with us at the brewery, and a way to always be a long term part of the brewery. I urge you to check it out, because I think it will be fun (and maybe even a great Christmas gift!), but it's also a way for people to help Mystery make the final push over the finish line. We can make it at a sputter or we can take air and fly. With people behind us, we can soar into the New Year and bring all of our backers with us.
We're also planning a New Years Eve soiree at the brewery; a way to see the new brewery first hand before the first beers even get released. What better place to spend New Years Eve than at a brewery? I'll be there no matter what, party or no. Keep an eye out for more details on that within the next few days, and if you're in Central North Carolina keep your New Years Eve open and available.
At the end of this all, I just want to take a moment to say thanks. People across the internet, from good friends here in North Carolina (and especially in the NC Craft Beer community), to people I've never met before across the country and around the world have been incredibly supportive of me and Mystery over the past year and a half while the entire startup process has been dragging on. This page – the full list of Kickstarters – just makes my jaw drop every time I look at it, and those are just the (awesome, amazing) Kickstarters. It doesn't even list the dozens and dozens of people who have given of their time, intellect, and advice. I can't wait to justify your trust and good will with great beer, and I sincerely hope to share a pint (or maybe a half-pint) with each and every one of you.
*The Baker Street Irregulars are a band of street urchins employed by Holmes to help him investigate crimes and track criminals. They first appeared in the first Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet.


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In case you missed it, there is yet another photo sharing app. Who's pumped? Yeah, me neither. It's like saying who excited about tax season? My accounting major roommate did not find that a bit funny. Anyways, I was on a stroll around Green Lake with a couple buddies of mine and one of them […]
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ok ill try and remove the cable then try to adapt it. i remember having to adjust it because it idled high
ok ill try and remove the cable then try to adapt it. i remember having to adjust it because it idled high
VCDS Version: Release 10.6.1 (x64)
Data version: 20100831
Chassis Type: 1H - VW Golf/Vento III
Scan: 01 02 03 08 12 15 25 41 56
Address 01: Engine Labels: 021-906-259.lbl
Part No: 021 906 259 K
Component: MOTRONIC M5.9 HS V04
Coding: 00000
Shop #: WSC 00066
5 Faults Found:
16509 - Coolant Temperature Too Low for Closed Loop Fuel Control
P0125 - 35-10 - - - Intermittent
16885 - Vehicle Speed Sensor: Implausible Signal
16684 - Random/Multiple Cylinder Misfire Detected
P0300 - 35-10 - - - Intermittent
16689 - Cylinder 5: Misfire Detected
P0305 - 35-10 - - - Intermittent
16686 - Cylinder 2: Misfire Detected
P0302 - 35-10 - - - Intermittent
Readiness: 0000 0100
Address 15: Airbags Labels: 6N0-909-60x-VW2.lbl
Part No: 6N0 909 603 D
Component: AIRBAG VW2 V00
Coding: 00068
Shop #: WSC 00066
2 Faults Found:
00588 - Airbag Igniter; Driver Side (N95)
32-10 - Resistance too High - Intermittent
00532 - Supply Voltage B+
07-10 - Signal too Low - Intermittent
End ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Hey everyone,
Total noob question but found this thread after an uber search.
Have a wee 1997 Audi a3 1.6 petrol that is now idling at 2000 rpm after I cleaned the throttle body with carb cleaner. I don't see an iacv on this model.
Would the above process have to be carried out after such a simple clean and is this high idle a likely symptom?
That depends on the use of the mentioned Idle Stabilization Valve (ISV) -or- Throttle Body that's controlled by the Ecm. We didn't get the A3 until the newer 8P body and the 1.6 wasn't available in the US on the other (similar) models.
Can you post the engine code?
Hi Dana,
I will indeed when I get it, had to call it a day yesterday so they are driving the car with the higher idle for now.
I had a good look for an ISV and couldnt see one on the TB housing, just the wire controlled butterfly part and a big plastic housing on the opposite side.
When i was playing with the throttle and looking at the tb to see what was going on, i could feel it being pulled/clicked or moved by something, thats what led me here.
Looking at wikipedia, its the following but ill get the exact code tonight.
1.6 8v
1,595 cc (97 cu in)
101 PS (74 kW; 100 hp) @5600 rpm
145 N·m (107 lb·ft) @3800 rpm
Ok, tried to connect it to VAG-COM tonight but it wouldnt connect at all. I just wanted to even check for error codes for a start.
The car is an 8L Audi A3, still dont know the engine code.
I also took a few pictures to see if it helps to identify the engine but i see we cant upload them here, not too sure where to find the engine code as it isnt on the vehicle document.
Where would i find the engine code of the car?
ANy thoughts on not being able to connect?
Okey dokey.
Engine code is AEH010284
As per the repair manual this Ecm (Simos vendor) supports the TBA in group 098 as shown on the Wiki page for DBC engines.
Cable-Throttle Engines
What are the details about the VCDS system you're using? The Interface model (i.e. KEY-USB), VCDS software version and PC details would be helpful.
Do any other installed control modules communicate with VCDS as listed here: Audi A3/S3 (8L) ?
Hey Dana,
Ok, so in theory this wee car should work.
Its the basic connection thats not working, it just wont connect at all. Any time i try, the wee window in the top left babbles about baud rates etc etc.
Not sure about versions Dana, its a skanky looking connector tbh.....in fact the USB connector is rusty
Most certainly does not look like the £200 ones on your site, its transparent blue etc.
Regarding the software, I think its 4.09.
Its OOOOOOOOOOOLD but surely should do the job.
I have a 2000 VW Jetta, 2.0 NON TD. I was just getting ready to spend the money to replace the throttle body but then I came across this forum. How do I know which adjustment to use and how do i do it?
Cable-Throttle Engines procedure.
If you aren't sure, post the complete Auto-Scan and we'll see what's installed.
Hi, i have a 1997 VW Vento, 2.0 petrol AGG engine.
What blocks do i need to perform TBA?
Hi, I've been looking at your post about realligning the Throttle body (I changed my battery and it seems to have thrown out the allignment)
Your post explained everything, except what tool I should use to do the job. what scan tool would you recommend? I don't have one, and would like to buy one, but I don't want to get one that won't work. Thanks
How about the company which sponsors this forum? That's the company that Dana works for, and the company which created with site in the link that you thanked Dana for posting. That company makes a tool....
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I cannot manage to reset the throttle position even after the pedal was changed and removed the throttlebody and freed up the spring to close the throttle. should i just buy a brand new throttlebody or change the parts from an audi throttlebody i have? could it be the computer, because before i got the car the kid put an aftermarket exhaust on it and he ended up changing the front 02 sensor.
So here is the $ 64,000 question. How do we keep our cars running nicely like we had just done a TBA without constantly having to do a TBA?
RTFB or find a professional.
64K will get you some good service.
Ive removed, cleaned and reinstallel mk4 2.0 2002 jetta throttle body and ecm,and tcm with no adaptation post cleaning and the car ran fine I did disconnect battery prior to cleaning throttle body and ecm and tcm with electrical contact cleaner ....so vagcom not nessasary!
That I can tell you is a completely ignorant and incorrect assumption.
RTFB says you need a scanner to ADP the TV anytime it is replaced or the battery is disconnected.
When your trans grenades prematurely for poor learned angles or kick down.
Please sir you come on back now ya hear?
Post your scan later when you finally capitulate.
Happy trails!
Hi. I don't know if this thread is still active but i'll give it a try.Hi,
As per the repair manual this Ecm (Simos vendor) supports the TBA in group 098 as shown on the Wiki page for DBC engines.
Cable-Throttle Engines
What are the details about the VCDS system you're using? The Interface model (i.e. KEY-USB), VCDS software version and PC details would be helpful.
Do any other installed control modules communicate with VCDS as listed here: Audi A3/S3 (8L) ?
I have just bought an audi a3 that seems to have throttle problems so I figured a tba should do the trick. I'm using a friends vcds which should be 4.09 registered on a win xp laptop. When we try to do a tba as per the instructions on channel 098 we get "bin. bit" in the two last boxes and nothing happened. What does this mean? Are we doing something wrong or is the tb busted?
If you post your Autoscan that'll tell what modules you have, their current settings, and if there's any fault codes stored
I posted this over on the 2.8 12 v forum but figured would ask here as well.
I have a VAG-COM and performed the steps for the TBA. All went well. Problem is, it doesn't seem to take hold. Every damn time I turn the key to the accessory position, I can hear the throttle body doing its little dance and performing an adaption which I don't think is normal. Anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening? Vehicle is a 98 GTI Vr6 by the way.
Thanks for the help!
If you post your Autoscan that'll tell what modules you have, their current settings, and if there's any fault codes stored
Noob here...proh'lems galore. '97 A6 2.8 stammers and shakes - particularly bad when placed in gear. Battery has been disconnected/reconnected. Throttle body has been off. Was trying to perform a TBA - to no avail.
Address 01: Engine Labels: 8D0-906-266.lbl
Part No: 8D0 906 266 B
Component: 2,8l V6/2V MPI OBD2 D03
Coding: 10242
Shop #: WSC 02324
No fault code found.
Readiness: N/A
Address 02: Auto Trans Labels: None
Part No: 4A0 927 156 AL
2 Faults Found:
00296 - Kick-Down Switch (F8)
29-10 - Short to Ground - Intermittent
00526 - Brake Light Switch (F)
27-00 - Implausible Signal
Address 03: ABS Brakes Labels: 4D0-907-379-ABS.lbl
Part No: 4D0 907 379 L
Component: ABS/EDS BOSCH 5 4171
Shop #: BB 34171
No Faults Found
or DTCs not supported by controller
or a communication error occurred
Address 08: Auto HVAC Labels: 4A0-820-043.lbl
Part No: 4A0 820 043 K
Component: Klima-Vollautomat D05
Coding: 00162
Shop #: WSC 02324
No fault code found.
Address 15: Airbags Labels: 8A0-959-655.lbl
Part No: 8A0 959 655 D
Component: Airbag V AUDI D01
Coding: 00127
Shop #: WSC 02324
1 Fault Found:
00532 - Supply Voltage B+
07-10 - Signal too Low - Intermittent
Address 17: Instruments Labels: 4Ax-919-03x-17.lbl
Part No: 4A1 919 035 CN
Component: C4-KOMBIINSTRUMENT D30
Coding: 00262
Shop #: WSC 06412
No Faults Found
or DTCs not supported by controller
or a communication error occurred
Address 35: Centr. Locks Labels: 8D0-862-257.lbl
Part No: 8LO 862 257 B
Component: CV-Pump,Alarm, RC
Coding: 12172
Shop #: WSC 65535
16 Faults Found:
01367 - Central Locking Pump Run Time Exceeded (Likely Leak)
35-00 - -
01371 - Alarm triggered by Door Contact Switch; Driver's Side
35-00 - -
01372 - Alarm triggered by Door Contact Switch; Rear Passenger Side
35-00 - -
01374 - Alarm triggered by Terminal 15
35-00 - -
01370 - Alarm triggered by Interior Monitoring
35-00 - -
01369 - Alarm triggered by Hood Switch
35-00 - -
01368 - Alarm triggered by Luggage Compartment Switch
35-00 - -
01373 - Alarm triggered by Radio Ground Contact
35-00 - -
01366 - Opened Due to Crash Signal
35-00 - -
01361 - Switch for Anti-Theft Alarm; Close
29-00 - Short to Ground
01360 - Switch for Anti-Theft Alarm; Open
29-00 - Short to Ground
01362 - Close Switch for Tailgate/Trunk (F124)
29-00 - Short to Ground
01363 - Switch for Central Locking; Driver's Door (F59)
27-00 - Implausible Signal
01364 - Switch for Central Locking; Passenger Door (F114)
27-00 - Implausible Signal
01365 - Lock/Unlock Switch; Interior
29-00 - Short to Ground
01365 - Lock/Unlock Switch; Interior
28-00 - Short to Plus
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Growing up in the 1970s, I borrowed my sense of the Vietnam War from movies like "Apocalypse Now" -- and from the looks of pain that would cross the faces of grown-ups who'd lived through it. World War II? My grandparents no doubt remembered the painful parts, but the version they shared with children was softened by time and sensitivity to our innocence.
Travel back beyond the personal experience of people you know, and you find that history is remarkably hard to grasp. There are history books and historical novels, commemorative statues and holiday celebrations. Still, the further away we get from when a certain chapter happened, the harder it is to feel – viscerally – what it was like to live then. Costume dramas usually tell us more about what we want to remember than about what happened, and the cameras close in on the faces of handsome actors rather than the gadgets, food and social habits that defined the time for those who were there.
Northeast of Sacramento, at the former McClellan Air Force Base, there's a massive warehouse --160,000 square feet -- that holds a treasure trove of items from California's earliest recorded history. These items are the kind that tell the stories that make history "come alive," as the cliche goes. Think of Victorian-era baby carriages and dentists' chairs, battered metal dairy cans and railroad crossing signs.
The warehouse in North Highlands where California's ancient artifacts are stored is run by the California Department of Parks and Recreation. Yes. Parks and Recreation. Ever since Marshall Gold Discovery in Coloma became part of the state park system in 1927, the parks department has been the de facto depository for all sorts of objects that were once ubiquitous and have become precious with the passage of time.
Curator Ross McGuire explained: "Over time, collections came in, one at a time. It just grew - to the point where it was pretty unmanageable."
Not to mention a bit of a mess. Take for instance, one dusty freight wagon that ran from Sacramento to Placerville before the railroads were built, circa 1855 or '60. Like a lot of historical artifacts, it would up at Sutter's Fort, which became home to the Stronghold of Pioneer Memories Museum Collection.
Pioneers as far back as the Gold Rush knew they were making history. They set aside all sorts of heirlooms, thinking someday this bric-a-brac would tell the story of how they got here and what they did. The thing is, some of those heirlooms sat outside for decades.
Think about it: In 1875, people would have looked at that wagon as the sturdy contraption from which grandpa got his sundries before rail came to town. In 1915, the wagon might have served as an amusing reminder to Model T drivers of how far technology had traveled in half a century. By the 1950s, it's an open question whether anybody would have thought about the fact that a disintegrating piece of junk had anything interesting to say about the Gold Rush. Except, of course, to visiting schoolchildren urged to imagine a time before supermarkets.
"The museum profession has learned a great deal," McGuire said with droll humor. "You don't just put these out for the sun and rain to beat up and weather."
These days even the most industrial item is cleaned, strapped into stabilizing contraptions of wood and Plexiglas, and carefully housed in a concrete room with light, temperature and humidity controls. You can't stop organic materials from decaying, but you can slow the process.
Perhaps nothing tells the story better than the state's collection of 4,400 Indian baskets, one of the biggest in the world. McGuire said, "There are baskets smaller than a teacup to baskets meant to hold bushels and bushels of acorns."
Each basket is wrapped individually in a plastic bag. Styrofoam peanuts inside keep the basket from collapsing in on itself. A tag on the bag tells all you need to know about the basket's provenance and place in the collection.
Some of the collection is on display outside the warehouse, but the bulk of the items are awaiting a new building for the California Indian Heritage Center, a project that's still in the works. In the meantime, these baskets will sit here, available to be loaned out to parks, museums and historical societies throughout California and, really, the world over.
"If not us, then who?" McGuire asks. "We didn't seek out the responsibility. It kind of evolved as the park system grew."
For decades, the parks department's trove of artifacts has been scattered across the state capital in nine facilities. Now, everything has been gathered under one roof. Bond money paid for this consolidation at McClellan Air Force Base.
You might be tempted to ask how a budget-strapped agency pays for new acquisitions. It doesn't. Just about all the stuff was donated. The last purchase -- of four Indian baskets -- was made 40 years ago.
McGuire said 150 state parks have some kind of historical display. That might strike you as odd, calling to mind about 50 historic parks, like Hearst Castle and Pio Pico. That said, many parks we think of for their natural beauty also house historical artifacts. Consider Henry Coe State Park, in the hills southeast of San Jose.
"It was a ranch," McGuire said. "The furnishings of the family are in the house and exhibited there. So we hold materials for almost two-thirds of the entire system, whether they're designated as a historic park or not."
If it's not on display, or if it's falling apart, a local park sends it to Sacramento for safekeeping. Indeed, you can see the makings of several exhibits in this cavernous space, including railroad ledgers through the years, 19th century mining technology and butter churning along California's coast.
McGuire shows off several generations of dairy-processing technology dating back to the Gold Rush. Soon after the boom started, McGuire said, San Franciscans were slathering California-produced butter on their toast. At first, the product was churned by hand and came to market via sea from farms along the coast. Later, as the market for butter grew, animals and steam power were used to drive industrial churns.
That story is on display at Wilder Ranch north of Santa Cruz, and there's a plan for a similar exhibit at Fort Ross north of Bodega Bay. Some of the objects for that exhibit are in this warehouse as they wait for their debut.
And with the new warehouse, there's more than half a chance these artifacts will survive into the next century, to speak to future generations even further away than we are from California's formative decades.
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Powell Street in downtown San Francisco is the type of corridor where, on any given weekday, hordes of workers, shoppers, and tourists hurry along past sidewalk bongo players and rattling cable cars, on their way to somewhere else. Amid the hubbub, though, something else is happening along a stretch between the St. Francis Hotel and a Skechers store: People are stopping. Some sit on the built-in benches, perhaps admiring the birds of paradise or asparagus fern in shiny modern raised beds that rise behind them. These people may not know it, but the Powell Street Promenade, opened in 2011, is quietly directing them to find tranquility amid the chaos.
Walter Hood, the man behind this inviting patch of green, designed it precisely this way, with wavy metal edges that suggest gentle motion, like ripples across water, and wider sidewalks that encourage people to stop for a chat, out of the way of the hurrying throngs.
"I like to work where people are," says the Oakland-based Hood, who also teaches landscape architecture at University of California, Berkeley. His green oases come in unlikely places, such as under Interstate 580 in Oakland. There, his Splashpad Park invites pedestrians to stroll its paths or to sit beside the fountain and enjoy the city views.
Hood's landscapes are boldly contemporary in style and material but highly functional. The grassy sculpture garden he designed for the modernist remodel of San Francisco's de Young Museum includes giant ceramic apples, which beckon children to clamber on them. To create Lafayette Square Park in Oakland, Hood added a barbecue area and lawn berms angled to catch the sun.
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Cazorla joined the Gunners from Malaga in 2012 and has three years left on his deal. With Arsenal hoping to take a step closer to the first piece of silverware in nine years when facing Wigan in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final at Wembley, the midfielder said: "I want titles and that is why I came to Arsenal.
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About your O2 sensor(s), hopefully your scan tool is capable of capturing and monitoring O2 sensor voltages in real time. If it has this ability, is is exactly the menu you need to use. First, insert the key into the ignition switch an turn it to detent just short of activating the starter; in this position, the entire car's FI system is energized and ready to fire. O2 sensors provide a straight base line voltage value at rest, meaning not actually reading 02 content. All primary and post car sensors should have the same baseline number on the scanner's screen, if I recall correctly. If a sensor is malfunctioning, it will not even likely provide the right baseline voltage and this is how you can tell if a O2 sensor is on its way out.
One step further, O2 sensors provide a predictable oscillating voltage signal in the form of a sine wave. If your scan tool can read real time O2 signal voltages, this is what you want to see for each primary O2 sensor. If you see an erratic wave on the scope function of your scan tool, that is a sure give away the O2 sensor is beyond its useful life, and replacement is warranted.
As for your VANOS problems, call Dr VANOS, this is the real vendors name, not some attempt at humor here, and ask him specifically what test you should perform to determine if the VANOS module on your sled is indeed experiencing intermittent failure, leading to your current predicament. There are more sophisticated scan tools that I believe can make the module activate a specific solenoid in the module; a year or so ago, I remember playing around with my buddy's expensive scan tool and manually activating a solenoid (when the car was at rest of course), and it made a faint "click" so this is a sure indicator the that the individual solenoid is working. That Scan tool was a $3,000 piece of equipment btw. Good luck fellah.
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Tufnell Park is an area of north London, England, which straddles the border of the London Borough of Islington and the London Borough of Camden.
Tufnell Park Road runs along the line of an old Roman road which stretches from the Roman camp beneath Barclays Bank and Batten's Carpets on the Holloway Road, up Dartmouth Hill and over Hampstead Heath.[1] For centuries the area was renowned for its dairy farms which kept London and the south supplied with milk.
It kept a rural air well into the 19th century in its important role as a base for a number of dairies supplying the capital. In 1753 the area became the property of William Tufnell who was granted the manor of Barnsbury by his father-in-law Sir William Halton. The manor (now demolished) stood on the site of the Holloway Odeon. The manor's gateposts can still be seen, however, towards the west end of Tufnell Park Road. Tufnell petitioned the Parliament for permission to develop his estate but the leases he was granted were left unused. William's father was Samuel Tufnell of Langleys in Essex. William also inherited Nun Monkton in Yorkshire and estates in Northumberland from his great-uncle, Nathaniel Payler. He also inherited Pleshy from his godfather William Joliffe. These estates went to his older brother John Jolliffe Tufnell of Langleys.
The Tufnell Park estate passed to his brother George Foster Tufnell, MP for Beverley (d 1798), then to George's son William Tufnell (d 1809), MP for Colchester, who married in 1804 into a fortune owned by Mary Carleton (daughter of Thomas Carleton of South Carleton d.1829). Both are buried at St Mary's Islington, hence her maiden name appearing as two street names in N7. William was the brother of Lt. Col. John Charles Tufnell of Bath (leased Lackham House, Lacock in Wiltshire in 1817), banker, m. 1796 Uliana Ivanova Margaret Fowell (d. 29/1/1848) daughter of John Fowell of Bishopbourne). They had 18 children, one of whom was Edward Wyndam Tufnell, the first Bishop of Brisbane.
The manor then passed to Henry Tufnell (d 1854), MP for Ipswich and Devonport, Liberal chief whip, Lord of the Treasury, m. Anne Augusta Wilmot-Horton (daughter of the Governor of Ceylon d.17/9/1843), m. 2 1844 Frances Byng (daughter of Sir John Byng Earl of Stafford, d. 1846), m.3. 1848 Lady Anne Primrose (daughter of Earl of Rosebery, d. 1862)
The estate then passed to Henry Archibald Tufnell (d 1898) who died with no children, and then to Lt Col Edward Tufnell (d 1909) HM Inspector of Schools, Factory Commissioner, Director Greenwich Hospital m. 1846 Honoria Mary Macadam (daughter of Col. Macadam Knight of Hanover, d.1877)
Serious building began in 1845 with a scheme sponsored by Henry Tufnell and designed by John Shaw Jr, who had laid out the Eton Estate in Chalk Farm. This initial work was largely limited to the area around Carleton Road. In 1865 the scheme was taken up by George Truefitt who developed most of the local villas and St. George's Church (1865), built for Anglican secessionists. The housing stock was of a solid nature, and Tufnell Park kept its good name until the end of the century. Charles Booth in his survey of London Life and Labour reported that the older streets (Anson Road and Carleton Road) housed a mixture of retired merchants and music hall artistes who were rich enough to holiday abroad over winter. He believed that second wave of building around Celia, Hugo, Corinne, Huddleston and Archibald Roads threatened to create a metropolis "from which the rich would soon be going". The private girls' school established at the corner of Carleton and Brecknock Roads was closed in 1878 after many of its pupils drowned in the Princess Alice disaster.
Tufnell Park was more fortunate than several of its neighbours. Whereas roads and railway lines were sliced through Kentish Town and Camden in the 19th century, they mostly passed through Tufnell Park in tunnel, and Junction Road railway station provided a direct link with central London. The shabby genteel reputation of Tufnell Park made it a standard comic reference in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. George and Weedon Grossmith locate their aspirational Mr Pooter in Tufnell Park (Upper Holloway) in Diary of a Nobody. Julian and Sandy, the camp characters in the Round the Horne radio series, frequently referenced Tufnell Park.
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- Writer Clive James spent a large part of his early life in Britain living in Tufnell Park, and describes in detail his disdain for it in his book Falling Towards England.
- Dr Crippen lived at 39 Hilldrop Crescent in Tufnell Park (now demolished), where he murdered his wife.
- Actor Shazad Latif
- Activist and Green Party London Assembly member Sian Berry
- Actor Ben Miller
- Actor Bill Nighy
- Actor Christopher Lee
- Actor Damian Lewis
- Former MP and leader of the Labour Party Neil Kinnock, Baron Kinnock of Beddwellty
- Former MEP Glenys Kinnock
- MP and leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn
- MP Tessa Jowell
- Peer Baroness Pitkeathley
- Musician Jonny Buckland
- Actress Cathy Tyson
- Actress Helen McCrory
- Singer Suggs
- Academic and writer Professor Philip Tew lived in Tufnell Park 1988–2009.
- Snooker commentator Jack Karnehm was born here)
- Robert Muchamore, author of bestselling young adult series CHERUB and Henderson's Boys
- Director Roger Michell
- Comedian and Author Charlie Higson
- Composer, Singer and Song Writer A.R.Rahman
- DJ Zane Lowe
- Presenter Gavin Esler
- Presenter Jon Snow
- Actor Michael Garner
- Actor William Gaminara
- Singer and X Factor finalist Sophie Habibis
- Painter Fermin Rocker
- Actress Laura Carmichael
- Joe Craig author of the bestselling Jimmy Coates series
The nearest London Underground station is Tufnell Park on the Northern line.
The nearest London Overground stations are Upper Holloway and Gospel Oak
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- ^ Islington: Growth: Holloway and Tollington, A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes (1985), pp. 29-37. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=1374. Date accessed: Friday, 12 October 2007.


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Hi have a question...
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When you choose piston ring....
I was looking at Total Seal...and on the oil ring...you have the choice of :
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What is the difference ??? How I can know what kind of ring to choose for my application ?
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So if you go with the low tension it will probably use some oil and foul a plug every now and then.
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Risinger, who also singled and doubled, fired a two-hitter, striking out 16 and walking none. Risinger has struck out 48 and allowed 11 hits in three games this year.
"I can't say enough about her," Marion Center coach Ed Peterson said. "But what can you really say about a girl who works so hard and then comes out on the field and reaps the benefits? I'm just glad she's on our side, I'll tell you that."
Kimmi Donaldson singled twice, doubled and drove in three runs to pace the Stingers. Katie Dotts and Karlie Snyder each singled twice, and Morgan Tonkin doubled and drove in two runs.
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My 1 or 2 year old male cat Dusty (not sure on his age cause the place STILL hasn't sent me his info grr) has been sneezing sense day one. it wasn't often. Lately (2 months later) hes had a really snotty nose. There is no eye discharge, he eats and drinks fine and has the same amount of laziness. Could it be allergies? its not from his food or litter cause Ive changed those. And I'm 99% sure its not an upper respiratory infection because there's no eye discharge and my other cat nightmare hasn't been affected at all. Whats the best solution? and is petsmarts vet thing a good price? (if it comes to me having to take him to a vet)
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I sure wouldn't get too fancy with a T-bucket seat. There just isn't room to get a console and fancy seats in there. A good reasonably firm base foam along with a less firm top version is all you will need. If you are fairly tall and/or hefty, your leg room and how you can use the pedals will determine how long you can drive yours without a break. As mentioned above, the small gas tank will also have some bearing as very few can carry more then 10 gallons before you need another fill up and break. And before you say it, yes, I owned and drove a T-bucket for over 10 years.
That full length console - I think you had better sit in the car with mocked up upholstery and a temporary seat out of plywood. You might just find that you no longer fit and are still able to readily reach the pedals. I have a somewhat larger car, a Model A roadster, it originally had some beautifully done Glide Engineering seats - but I had trouble getting in and out then even handling the car, even with a tilt wheel. I now have some upholstered bomber style seats, a several hundred dollar 'aw s@#t. I'm still tight in there, but now can easily drive the car - and absolutely no room for a full length, between-the-seats console. If Randy (New Interiors) were to put up his photo of two guys stuffed in that 'bucket, you will see what I mean.
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source: Sprint via PhoneNews
Sprint providing customers 30 day window to add TEP to their plan
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posted on 20 Oct 2010, 01:45 0
1. anthonybmancini (Posts: 8; Member since: 03 Apr 2009)
verizon is doing this too.
posted on 02 Mar 2010, 09:36 0
2. russi (Posts: 11; Member since: 08 Jun 2009)
your moms doing this too
posted on 02 Mar 2010, 10:59 0
3. jundibasam (Posts: 119; Member since: 05 Aug 2009)
all the carriers are doing it because Asurion is losing money. Insurance is such a rip off anyway. You have to pay $6 to $8 a month for it, then pay a deductible of either $40 or $80 (depending on phone). If you do the math, you might as well buy another phone or sign a new contract since I know Verizon pretty much allows customers to get a new phone at the two-year price every 12 months or a new phone at the one-year price anytime. Even then, Verizon will only charge you $50 to send a replacement phone to you if your phone is broken and/or out of warranty. Who needs the ripoff that insurance gives?
posted on 02 Mar 2010, 10:59 0
4. rwolf1984 (Posts: 532; Member since: 06 Jun 2009)
what's the catch? i don't understand...why are they doing this? do they want to get more subscribers to pool the risk?? The carriers have been so evil about the insurance over the years...anyone have any insight into this?
posted on 02 Mar 2010, 14:05 0
5. phkhmh42 (Posts: 7; Member since: 26 Feb 2009)
vzw has done this for years
posted on 03 Mar 2010, 00:49 0
6. VZWtrainer (Posts: 50; Member since: 24 Jul 2008)
To clarify, VZW has not done this for years. They are doing this right now, just like Sprint is. They both contract throught the same phone insurance company, Assurion, just like the rest of the industry. Verizon also did this last year and has cheaper insurance rates through Assurion than Sprint does.
Sprint providing customers 30 day window to add TEP to their plan


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