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And the steering wheel is on the "correct" side.
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Ok, I dare you to hop on a plane, go over to Japan and tell them that.
That's what you'll get for being the resident motörhead, mnem.
Civic's for the U.S./Canadian market are built in Ohio. Over 70% of the parts content was sourced from U.S./Canadian suppliers. Some wiring harnesses from Mexico. The only major component sourced from Japan is the transaxle. The Civic as built here I don't think are even available in Japan although I could be mistaken.Specmaster wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 3:54 pm
Ok, I dare you to hop on a plane, go over to Japan and tell them that.![]()
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You know I cannae help m'self. If it's a machine, I'm all up innit.
They do say that Japanese cars these days are extremely well-built and reliable and from what I've seen that would certainly seem to be generally true, however, I'm currently driving around in a Japanese car, a Nissan Qashqai which what they call a mild hybrid, a 1.3L petrol (gasoline) and while it was some pretty good tech going on, I don't like it. The hybrid seems to want to kick in when it feels like it, seeing I was taught to drive by a bus driver, I was taught then you come to a halt, you gradually ease off the brakes, so you don't actually have a jolt when you stop, thus giving your passengers a nice smooth ride. Do that with the Qashqai, it will sometimes send all the stored up energy (like the F1 Kers system) to the electric motor and will attempt to drive you forwards with a real severe jolt, even though you still have the brakes applied. It has huge great tyres with massive sidewalls but still manages to be a rough ride with almost every bump and pothole felt inside the car.MED6753 wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 6:25 pmCivic's for the U.S./Canadian market are built in Ohio. Over 70% of the parts content was sourced from U.S./Canadian suppliers. Some wiring harnesses from Mexico. The only major component sourced from Japan is the transaxle. The Civic as built here I don't think are even available in Japan although I could be mistaken.Specmaster wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 3:54 pm
Ok, I dare you to hop on a plane, go over to Japan and tell them that.![]()
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The bone heads who call it "Jap Crap" are the same bone heads driving around in Fords made in Mexico.
You need to go steal you some traffic cones.Specmaster wrote: ↑Tue May 30, 2023 8:05 pm ...I can't wait for Thursday to come, and I get to leave this piece of "Jap Crap" at a garage 145 miles away when I collect my replacement car following the accident I was involved in. Yes its taken 8 and a half weeks to get a decent settlement for my write off and, locate another similar car which is more civilised than the "Jap Crap", here is a photo of one, only the one I have on hire is a red one, and the birds love to crap on it every night as I currently have to park on my drive which has a tree overhanging it and pigeons roost in it every night, thanks to my neighbour's family who have between them 5 vehicles and they seem to beat me to the spot outside my house.![]()
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I vaguely remember seeing something like that before.
The spacings are all spot on, unusual for a homebrew, as you say. Also it uses the HP power connector, though I don't know if that is proprietary or not.vk6zgo wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 12:53 amI vaguely remember seeing something like that before.
Not being labelled doesn't rule out a commercial origin, it could have been part of a larger piece of equipment, never meant to be sold separately.
It looks a bit too neat for a "homebrew" effort-----maybe from a Uni or Tech school lab, but it just doesn't look "hobbyist" standard.
One thought comes to mind---perhaps an RF "sniff" which supplies both undetected & detected RF, the latter using the "DC" connector.