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Last week i thought i finally fixed my car after i figured a way to measure oil viscosity with a straw. After figuring they put 5W30 and said it was 5W20 (manufacturer's recomandation) on May 2, i went again on May 4 and had another oil change.  The car quieted down until i came back from Lincoln City. I started to suspect somebody put oil additive in my engine but when i came back i checked viscosity again and it was not changed. But on my way i stopped at Grande Ronde and added 6 more gallon of fuel and the noise stopped again. So i figured it could be also something wrong with the fuel. So after watching some videos i tried to pull a gas sample from the car to check if it had extra aclohol which could cause problems with injectors. Could not succeed with a soft rubber tube because of a safety device the newer cars have which prevent from gas spilling during a rollover. However when i started the car the noise stopped. Then i finally figured it was the vacuum applied to the tank by the evaporative control system that was creating enough difference in fuel pressure for car to slighly missfire. Which meant the fuel pressure was marginal which could only happen if the fuel filter was clogged. So i thought it was worth it to try and change the fuel filter which probably was not changed in 55k miles or never on that car. So i watched a video on youtube on how to do that. However it is scary. No car has fuel filter inside the fuel tank. I could not possibly do it myself and i remembered Jiffy Lube declinded to do so also last year. Dealer was the only option.
I believe it was August 1st last year. I went and made an appointement for an oil change at Beaverton Hyundai. After the service person took the VIN number and made the appointement i left the dearleship. On my way out, Stan Miller, Manager of Service Department ran after me and asked me to roll the window down which i did and he told me i was banned for his dealership, for reason of "messing too much with the car". In those days i had a moisture and oil filter on the PCV line. Not the happiest choise, since then i tried many things and ended with a catch can but certainly the car was not in imediate danger of being damaged. He was in his office while the service guy made the appointement with the door open and didn't say anything in front of other people.

Previously he told me that i had my car overfilled with oil at his own service which may have resulted in oil getting in the intake. He also told me that the angle in which the nozzle is held when filling with oil matters as oil could get in the intake. He made me climb into a similar car and made me listen at the same clicking sound or worse then mine telling me "It's a Hyundai!".

I wrote here extensively about the reasons why the oil get in the intake.

Previously i asked him to replace engine head, where the noise came, he first accepted, then i changed my mind and when i asked him again he said he could to it but that would not help and he didn't want to take my money for nothing. The guy reminded me of the Australian country singer Ketih Urban.

At that dealership i had done a battery change right after buying the vehicle, at least one oil change, AC service and was banned at the attempt to do the second oil change after a long trip in southern US. The engine was still overfilled after i chaned oil at Murdoch Hyundai in Salt Lake City in the meantime. Ever since they keep sending me coupons. Today i spoke with several people, including Ale and i believe twice with Annie at their service. They kept asking me to spell my name and never calling me back. My question was if i could use the coupons and come back to do a fuel filter change. In the end i asked Annie to pull me from their mailing list and she said i have to hold for a confirmation and that kinda tipped me. I mean, why do i need a confirmation i was removed from a mail list? I'm sure they will do as they please.

Later i called the corporation where i spoke to Alexis. Never answering straight, never helping with a resolution, contradictory, bullying. I think there is a whole culture of bullying at Hyundai. She wanted to give me a case number but i remembered last time i talked to them they sent me an email after. So i'm waiting for the email.

What i wanted was either a written confirmation that i was banned or acceptance to fix my fuel filter and use the coupons they keep sending me.


Could not find the manual tonight, i found only this quick reference guide with the Maintenance schedule on the back.

How do you inspect a fuel filter? https://www.google.com/search?q=fuel+filter+inspect

How often you replace a fuel filter for a 2013 Elantra (Eternal)? Found this on a forum. Today i talked to three different people, one with an accent and one a Korean. They said you don't have to replace it.

" We changed the filter as my book says to change it at 60,000 km for warranty purposes. I don't have a lot of money and the mechanics here wanted $460.00 to replace the filter"

2014 Elantra sedan, 1.8 liter engine, similar to mine. https://www.hyundai-forums.com/md-2011-2016-elantra-sedan-coupe/637601-fuel-filter-change.html

[05-10-2019 11:00 AM]
Had it with Beaverton Hyundai. Just called Gladstone Hyundai (next as distance) and asked for a fuel tank air filter and a fuel filter. They don't have the fuel filter separately but only with pump and it costs over 400 dollars. For the other one i payed 26 and will be there 2-3 business days. Parts guy was new and i heard him talking with another guys trying to figure the parts out. Then he passed me to the cashier who asked the credit card twice and my address and phone number.

Just called Ron Tonkin Hyundai. Finally figured why they don't sell filters. They have a service called "flushing" of the fuel system which is supposed to clean the filter. They said car should also have sensors for fuel tank pressure and fuel pressure, so i should try and read those to see what's happening. Fact is if i take the fuel tank cap off and put it back on the noise (click, or tick) at the engine mostly disappears.

In the mean time i found the manual. It was sitting fallen behind the desk. There is no such thing as "flushing" of the fuel system or replacing the fuel filter. It's still a mistery to me as what's hapeening.

The laws of common sense say that if the gasoline has dirt in it (and all gasoline has some) the filter should catch it and in the process it will saturate with that dirt needing replacment.

There are some contradiction regarding fuel filter replacement in this page. It is not clear what the word "clean" means. Hope it is not a joke since this is the first time when i heard a filter can be cleaned. It is true i go on the patio from time to time and blow my hepa and carbon filters in the opposite direction to air flow to remove some dust and prolong their life. However i don't see how you can revert flow in that filter while in place and if you do so how you don't contaminate your hole fule tank. I will come back tomorrow with a clearer picture (need some day light, flash creates reflection) and Mannix starts right now at 2 AM on the west coast. As far as replacement goes, i cannot find any filter at the dealers without the pump.

[05-11-2019 4:17 PM]
Al modern cars built since January 1 1996 have an serial interface with the on-board computer called OBDII. (On board Diagnostic). Provided you have a tool you can interface with the computer, read sensor readings and set parameters. You could also change the whole software. The tools in the past cost thousands of dollars, now you can to it with a bluetooth device and a $2.99 App from Microsoft. Here is the screenshot with the readings of the fuel tank pressure sensor, done outside the purge phase of the evap system.  I had a similar software on the tablet, which i paid 10 dollars for (Torque) but since i reset the tablet last time cannot download it unless if i pay again. (Free version could also read sensors but it doesn't work.) So it's really hard to read that sensor during purge cycle to diagnose the system. Computer is supposed to throw a check engine light if the pressure does not go down enough within that cycle, which involves applying vacuum to the thank. However if you have a clogged fuel tank air filter (which i never knew existed) that is not going to show up. (Together with oh so many malfunctions the computer can't catch and won't turn a check engine light on.)

This car before me has been driven on a road that had pine needles on it and it had a layer of half inch of those on the mud flaps on the rear wheels. That filter is located under one of those flaps on left rear but is exposed to dirt from the road, which puzzles me. I just ordered one of those at ... Gladstone Hyundai and i think if i remove half of the mud flap i can do it here in the parking lot and also take a picture of the location. Is it possible that that filter let dirt contaminate the fuel tank which in turn contaminated the fuel filter that is downstream from the pump and for this car is located inside the tank, an unusual or even unique design so it's very hard to replace as shown in the video above and could not be order separately.

By interfacing with the computer i also figured there is no fuel pressure sensor, which is common for this class of vehicles. Because of that, a "flushing" of the system that is supposed to clean the fuel filter, offered both by dealer and Jiffy lube cannot be measured or quantified. Also the car does not a fuel line port to measure the fuel pressure with the engine on which is unusual for this class of cars and is impossible to evaluate or "inspect" the fuel filter as recommended in the manual seen in the picture above.

May 7

2:08 They did wake me after 4 hours of sleep. Tried to search for something, the person came and started to squeak so severely i gave up and started another project that has been delayed. The catch can for the newer Elantra. All the parts were there waiting and i put it together and installed it on the car. I also tried to vacuum the intake like i did to the other Elantra, some oil came, but i gave up as being too tired. People as usual moving around me like on a chase table, always anticipating my moves and creating visual traps. Kids behind me as i was working on car etc..

Corrugated copper pipe and front installation for condensing the oil. The idea behind it is to catch the oil vapor coming from the valve cover and crankcase through the PCV line that due to poor design (all combustion engines are like this) gets in the intake and on the valve, making them to stick and giving more work to the hydraulic lifters. In a way it is very similar to an appendix on the large intestine.

Besides a small, few percents, direct loss of power due to resistance to turning of the camshaft which matters when cruising at 20 HP output (60 HP thermal) in a car with good aerodynamics which is still 15 times the power of a 3000 watts heater or laundry drier, you do get noise from cam lobes hitting the partially filled lifter, foam in oil from squishing the oil out of lifters due to valve resistance (sticky), unbalanced engine due to some valves being opened only partly and with a delay which translates in poor drivability, again loss of power due to partially burnt fuel in those cylinders that overloads the catalytic converter, loss of comfort due to vibration and a host of other problems like wearing out engine mounts etc. etc..

One of the two most overlooked and poorly understood problems of modern cars including newest. The other one is using insufficiently filtered, pulsating DC from alternator for powering of the electronics and fuel pump because of poor battery connection due to contamination and corrosion of connectors that usually starts after first time changing the battery when you can never achieve the same type of connection like from factory.

September 24

6:45 I took Angela at work. When i left here i saw in the parking lot a guy loading a sleeping kid about 10 years old into a truck (deja vu). On my way back, at that school a huge truck loaded with gravel or soil or something got in front of me while on  the radio they were playing Billy Idol More More More. Now i feel like i've been again exposed to very sharp invisible dust cause it hurts everywhere.

7:17 I wanted to go back to sleep and now he started the TV upstairs and i think he is smoking too.

7:43 Există lege, există bani, (16.5 miliarde lei, sub capitol 06 din Bugetul Ministerului Muncii), alocațiile nu s-au dublat.

8:40 This morning i started to get readings on my blood sugar again and it was scary, 310 on fasting.

Well, since 2 AM. I ate like crazy yesterday, because of the dust that irritated my stomach while metabolism went down because of inflammation. So i decided to go for a walk. When i was ready, i opened the door (a bit) and went back to check the stove, etc.. and one guy already passed the door (a teenager, ex-kid from the building, looking Japanese. But when i looked on the other side, there was a bottle on a rung of the stairs and a huge kid, probably bigger than me, probably brought especially from Australia, next to the older known ones, all "getting ready to go to school", but waiting for me? to get out? so they can claim something? I took the other alley however before street they switched alleys so i just turned around. Right at the corner next to the other mailboxes there was this older guy in camouflage pants, tall, thin, looking angry, trotting around his car. So i got back at the building, took the other alley, meet with more people, all looking angry, all getting in the way. I went at the street, turned around when i saw the excavator in action across 7/11. When i got here, i saw a half empty beer can on the mulch, i went to grab it but when i try to go to the garbage bin, there was this small new car, parked next to it and a mother with a girl got in the car, slowly, so i just turned around, looking and picked more stuff, until they left.

9:20 CDC says what now? and the walking robot upstairs started to squeak nervously. Wanna get a feel? limping a bit? (what happens if it falls).

9:31 Yeah he left so the robot goes now to recharge. And i'll try to sleep.

12:03 ingannare.

12:08 Mai multă ingannare.

1:30 O modelă sau o jucătoare de tenis anonimă dintr-un pictorial. Pare familiară.

6:01 Went to Copart in Woodburn. I had (still have) high hopes related to a 2015 Hyundai Elantra that seemed damaged at the right door only. (Now that i looked at many other cars i like the looks of Elantras).

However, there was damage at the bumper, one headlight from a previous fender bender, front wheels where scuffed really bad, but beyond anything it was a GDI. I dread GDIs because there is no injector in the intake to clean the valves, and tons of oil from PCV and dust gather by the valves. Could be fixed with some cleaner and than vacuuming the intake and then again installing a catch can.

It seemed the owner never took off the engine cover, the gauge was hard to pull (not checking or changing oil very often), and when i did what did i saw. Pieces of foam broken from the sound insulation under the cover (GDIs are a bit like diesel, more noisy) gathered around a spark plug. There was a fistsize hole in the foam corresponding to the fuel pump line.The car is identical in many ways to our old Elantra, there is even the same type of (unnecessary) "window" in the grill, to let you pour brake fluid, an almost sure place for gases to leak from engine compartment in the cabin. Not very clear in this picture, there is a bit of oil (from PCV) leak by the intake.

Car won't start so i went back at  the office and they gave me a jump starter. (Why didn't i took mine which was in the truck, i don't know). Battery was dead also because the negative connector was completely loose, and/or battery was beyond its life time (i think the accident happened around the time the car was five years old, exactly like for the other Hyundai we had, when probably the car lost the EPS (Electric Power Steering).).

But the jump starter won't help. Then a guy who was driving @ one of those forklifts (making tons of dust also) came and asked if we needed  help. He kept trying different other points of the chassi for a negative (battery negative connector was loose BTW) and then he went inside and started the car. The car started immediately to tick, but when i pressed  the gas pedal, the tick disappeared. It was sounding a bit like a diesel. I ran the engine for more than 10 minutes, battery won't charge whatsoever (even after i tightened the negative connector by rotating it).

Then i had this bad idea and blew those pieces of foam and some of them fell onto the hot exhaust and the whole place started to stink badly. Now i'm thinking. Those could have been falling for a long time onto the exhaust and affecting the driver (polyurethane foam).

There was a similar pile but this time of tiny but very hard nut shells (could had been an animal that nested there since this car has been in that lot) on top of an engine mount next to the serpentine belt and i think those were falling onto the belt and inside the pulleys making the tick.

Car might be leaking oil by the fuel pump (which is mechanical, fed by the engine, like the old distributors, where there is an o ring). That oil obviously ends on the exhaust again generating gases under the hood that surely will leak in the cabin by that window in the grill.

Other than that. At 68k, brakes are completely gone, also tires. So what do i get so far. Door panel, bumper, brakes, tires, a headlight.

10:18 I ate only meatloaf and cucumbers all day and my blood sugar went down to 250. That's it. No more bread. No more alcohol. Only cucumbers and protein and fiber. Had some sleep in the evening. Searching for cars, all of a sudden the place filled with smoke. Went outside and tried to find holes and stuff and this guy with his white dog was running around the building, completely ignoring the smoke.

There was this older abandoned hole right in the middle of the green area in front of my car, haven't had problems with it, however tonight someone stuck some burning stuff in there, could have been with kratom + marijuana or something else. Went in the car to search for a 3/8 extension i use as stick to push soil from sides to cover that hole and with potting soil i had in a bag, two people decided to pass by, right next to that hole, probably to claim they have some in their blood, after. Another one next to the gutter at the corner of the garages. Got a headache from that smoke.

10:53 They did it one more time. Same hole where i just pushed some potting soil, now soil was softened, another one by the bedroom window. With three buzzers under ground there are no more moles. The guy with the white dog now smokes in the balcony. Cigarettes. 

Da, știu, ungurii și japonezii de pe aici mimează în seara asta tupeul infinit, pe care oricum îl aveau, ca să îngâne. Ca să nu pot spune despre:

11:05  Partide, politicieni, parlament, congrese, competiții, iluzii și tragere de timp. Miza e zecile de miliarde de euro strânse din TVA și taxele pe venit și profit care pleacă din România chiar de la buget în fiecare an. Credeți că merită, câteva sute sau mii de actori la produs în România pentru câteva zeci de miliarde de euro pe an? Cine conduce de fapt România? Ninja și dominicanii.

Vroiam să întreb. Bine, dacă ei conduc lumea, de ce nu-și fac pur și simplu bani și să ne lase în pace? România trebuie golită.

11:31 Reading news. Cassie upstairs started walking. TV is thundering. Ingannare. Sometimes like right now i believe these buildings officially with many empty floors are actually uninhabited and made only for the skyline. Also because of the super rich of this world are actually actors, they don't have any properties and especially they don't act like. The little scandals and few pictures in the media also fake are nothing like the tumultuous high life should be in the circles above us.

11:56 Now, besides thundering TV, probably the guy with the white dog in apartment 4 started a load of laundry.

June 26

9:30 Got awaken after 5 hours of sleep (same like the last two nights) around 8 by big noises (like a garbage truck though it's Monday) and then the woman next door was talking yelling on the phone for one hour (yes in Spanish though she is Japanese, i know ninja can do that. Learn foreign languages so well you wouldn't know).

I started to remember what i've done last night. Last passing area before Chevron on 26 when going west towards Mt Hood. There was this semi i was following for at least 15 minutes that was going uphill under speed limit though i think it was empty. Those guys even if the are well maintained, put a lot of carbon dioxide behind especially when going uphill, that usually makes me sleepy.

There were two more vehicles behind it. Those and myself started to pass the truck which went onto the right lane. However instead of slowing down it sped up like they usually do to maybe 65 or more. (Had 75 or when i last looked at speedometer while trying to pass it but was held by the other two).

I know when i started to pass my speed was about 65 with the shifter on automatic, at about 4500 rpm and probably in 4th gear. I don't know exactly why but the truck accelerated after those two guys ahead of me passed it and when passing area ended i was parallel with it and i continued to accelerate until i finally passed it too though it was ft behind me and flashing lights instead of slowing down and when i looked at the speedometer and i was doing 80, uphill.

I read on sites and forums last night that my car has a rpm soft limiter at 6000 rpm when you are in sequential mode, when it shifts gears down automatically (and you loose power when uphill of course) and one at 6500 when you are in automated mode, like i was, when it cuts power to the engine. If that had happened he would have hit me from behind for sure cause it was only ft behind me until i slowly accelerated to 90 and put some distance in between.

If i panicked when i saw it close behind and then flashing, and hit the gas pedal to the floor the car would have shifted back to 3rd, the rpm increasing maybe over 6500 at 90 and the engine would have stopped at that rpm.

How would a semi do 80 uphill, that is another question.

Have no idea what marks that truck had on it, but i'm sure it was caught on the cameras on the freeway and/or seen by other drivers. Or maybe he veered right towards Hood River before reaching the Government Camp area. It was all done intentionally, like so many times recently in all kind of situations, in cooperation with the two other drivers and these guys are criminals that should spend time behind bars.

Similar things happen to me in almost all my trips.

9:58 Saturday night after passing Newberg going east again i was going uphill at 65, passed one guy (a white SUV) that was slower in the right lane when i saw something crossing the street, from the left.

It would have taken too long to lift my foot from gas pedal and hit the breaks so i just veered left in the median lane trying to get behind it which i did, maybe except for its tail, don't know if the guy right and behind me hit it. Seconds later i realized by the white stripes on its back that imprinted on my retina that it was a skunk, the first time ever i saw one. It was pretty big, about the size of a raccoon, but faster.

I apologize for modifying the gear numbers so many times in this post, it was all based on guessing (can't see the gear you're in on the dashboard, only the letter D when in automatic).

12:00 This video shows 4500 rpm at 85 mph in 3rd but it's a different type of Elantra. However if you press on gas hard enough you can very easily downshift one ore two gears and reach 6500 when the the fuel to the engine is cut off. BTW this guy is crazy, he does 170 mph with a flat tire warning on the dashboard. I personally never went over 100 with any vehicle.

12:37 I know what happened back in August 20 2021. The driver who hit me could have pretended i again lost engine power when accelerating over 6500 or whatever rpm, but in that night i was going with speed limit on cruise control on a flat or even a bit downhill area on I5 in 6th gear (fuel efficiency gear) per reason of driving with a spare (right rear).

Only when i saw him very close behind i might have tried to accelerate but it was too late as it would have taken several seconds to shift from 6th to let's say 2nd and even in the 2nd gear could still go faster than 60 which i was going when he hit me (that Elantra was 1.8 engine but was rated at the same 150 hp).

One more thing. The cop called a towing company that refused to tow us for reason of distance (22 miles, wondering why the cop wouldn't tell them on the phone, when he called them, where to). Could one of those two towing guys i talked to while the cop was skillfully recording it audio and video to have been actually the driver of the truck who hit me, pretending he didn't run after all. So i actually i might have talked without knowing, with the help complicity of the cop with my ex would be killer.

3:10 No i didn't. Only now i know what happened, a walk through the relatively clean air also cleared my mind. BTW when i left i poured some more vinegar in the old rusted dog feces contaminated pan under the new water heater and the child actors came and started to yell like swallowed whole by giant serpents. So they did when i passed the camp (the children camp in the park, less than one mile away from down town Tulatin and Martinazi street) they enact every summer.

The mods at the battery. In that day in August 2021 i had poured from days before some JB weld steel reinforced adhesive on top of the nuts of the connectors to prevent them from getting loose, not on the connectors themselves. In fact, during engine running the vehicle is powered by the alternator (and not the battery that acts only as a filter) of which connectors runs through a series of plates on the positive with the negative doubled directly on the body. There was adhesive on the nut of the plates too, but not on or between the contacting plates under.

In that night after the accident and pulling on a street nearby i was casually talking in front of the open hood to the second cop and the driver of the towing truck that refused towing, about those mods.

The current configuration has modifications too, only there is no adhesive involved but only a second system doubling the stock con_nec_tors, actually a redundancy with bypassing and an extra connection to the ground on the negative and again bypassing the stock connector to the plates on the positive, with bolts soldered on top of poles. It is true, i saw yesterday one of the battery poles was a little bent, i don't know why, there is no extra weight on it.

Besides i never had problems with it, on the opposite, it improved vehicle's operation by increasing driveability, mileage and decreasing vibration. I have digital a voltmeter inserted in one of the plugs. Never lost power in years of experimenting with those, then why in that day?

The taillights on every car are build to reflect light and they would have been very visible in the dark when lit with headlights from behind, even if i lost power which i didn't.

In fact on another recent occasion i used the horn as last defense against an attempt of being again hit from behind and the other driver fell back. Now i know why. Horn was showing i had electric power.

But if i accidentally (mis)maneuvered and hit the gas pedal to the floor and hit the 6500 rev limit in 1st gear uphill, it could have looked like i lost electric power. I'm wondering what would have happened if i was wounded in an accident near Mt.Hood, far away from any hospital and ambulance services.

August 23 was only 2 days away and in that day at Les Schwab in Lake Owego i was assisted by a Les Schwab employee that looked like a right wing minister from one of the numerous Iohannis governments, Dan Vilceanu. It is rumored Iohannis has ties with the extreme right in Romania. He told me the tire with the flat i had earlier that day before the accident was unfixable as per a previous defective installation (done at the same shop). He insisted he took the tire in the trunk, where i was hit in that night.

What happens is though they are doing symbolic gestures trying to take credit of what followed that night in front of their right wing audience while the others don't care.

I think it was on May 2020 when driving with the same car, the first day a casino ever opened (Little Creek) after pandemics closure, when i went over a wheel (whole wheel, not shredded tire) exactly in that area, in the middle of the lane. Thing is i did not panic and hit the brakes, the car would have lowered its front (nose dive) and hit it and it barely touched it with some part (cross member i think).

After, i pulled from freeway in the area where she was missing from (not knowing at the time) to check for damages under the car.

In that night at the casino i went to the car several times (to drink of course) and last time i sat in line behind a woman, not unattractive but looking vulnerable, thin and not tall, who kept telling everybody she lost her purse and kept getting out and back in line (for temperature checking) to get in, and she didn't know why. I saw her later in the casino talking with two cops, then why the search that kept going for days?

4:49 This 2019 Elantra is closer to mine. You can realize it's a decent car. As for style, Koreans have a sense for a an elegant minimalism, beating classical Japanese basic pragmatism though lately they all started to look the same.

I think the man was doing 110 on a German autobahn in 5th gear at 6500 rpm (minute 1:58) right before car automatically shifted to 6th. In the US you can see this road quality only on recently paved freeways. Never seen continuous or interrupted lines so straight though confusing at 3:00 due to construction work. Crooked lane lines get you tired, fast. Good thing they also keep you challenged (and alert).

This, at 4:00. They do this to me a lot, slower cars changing lanes when i'm about to pass them. Good thing they didn't do it when he was passing them going 120 mph (193 kmh). And a stinking classic that fills your cabin (and filter) with smoke for the next 5 minutes. I see they're universal.

5:00 Christmass 2019 and 2020. It always happens around anniversaries and holidays. Today was my birthday.

6:30 Never new what steemit was until today when i was searching for his face.

April 16

12:15 When i described the latest version of the catch can (there's a new one in my head already), i forgot to say one more time what i said before. The modern cars have the intake manifold under the level of the engine's head and the out ports are above the throttle body. For that reason, it is possible for oil from the PCV to pool in there.

When i got my first Elantra in 2018, a  2013 model which i still like a lot as body stile, much nicer than the 2018 anyway i used a normal vacuum cleaner to which i attached at the end of the hose a thin 5-6 mm piece of PVC flexible tubbing about two ft long (that was not so perfectly attached, allowing air to get in that hose anyways, which helped with functionality).

With the engine off, i was holding with one hand the throttle open, and with the other i was inserting the flexible tubing downwards, making sure it reaches the bottom of the intake. I pulled so much of it, to my engrossment, it coated the whole vacuum hose on the inside.

Must have been ounces of it. But i must confess: i poured earlier a full can of valve cleaner. But it was black which proves the intake was coated on the inside with oil mixed with soot from EGR that was still trickling up the ports getting to the valves after the cleaning.

And because more oil kept getting in there and could not do the stunt too many times, i invented a small vacuum for that purpose only. Again a piece of tubing connected to the other (suction) side of a pneumatic mat pump that works at 12 volts. Of course the air that gets out of it has drops of oil when you hit the puddle inside. I encased the whole pump into a one gallon water bottle.

However after i got tired of periodically vacuuming the intake, i built the first version of the can. Which actually was an inline filter that was clogging fast. Then i found about catch cans on forums.

The 2018 model had the valves cleaner, however is very sensitive to the smallest amount of oil it gets in there. I also did not pull much from the bottom of the intake.

But if your valves look like this, a catch can won't help. I thought it was understood. You need to clean those first. Get a can of Seafoam or whatever, spray it in the intake through the throttle or a vacuum port while someone presses on the gas pedal to keep the engine running.

You will see black smoke coming out of the exhaust until those are clean, and then can vacuum the intake for the remaining cleaner trapped in. Or wait until it trickles up and get burnt in the engine (maybe). And then the catch can will help with the tick.

And of course if you think this method is nuts, there's always R2D2.

Pour... Les... Roumains. Încercați totuși să faceți un efort de imaginație ca să realizați cât de fioroși sunt ăștia și cum încearcă prin subliminale care de data asta sunt foarte subțiri (criza) să distrugă munca oricui deși Dinescu se dă de partea celor cu nădușeala pe piept. Mai înlocuiți mai devreme în poezie cuvântul talanți cu talenți. Telefon cu fise. Bine oricare din ei se dă de partea cuiva, ca să-i ducă mai repede în prăpastie. 

11:04 PM Hai să lămurim o chestie. Din când în când, cam de 2 ori pe an săptămână Fürjes Dinescu se bagă în seamă cu câte o poezie, scrisă cu ceva meșteșug, care le fac atractive.

Fiindcă s-a luat iar de mine și i-am răspuns, s-a stârnit acum în media o frenezie legată de subiectele deschise de meșteșugul dlui. Una din "știri" vorbește iar despre punerea sub acuzare a foștilor lideri revoluționari (un banc răsuflat) iar pe mine mă face iar să mă gândesc cum să demonstrez că zâmbărețul Iliescu, capo di tutti capi rivoluzionari, sărac dar curat, e mort de mult iar ăștia îl țin așa în vila aceea de lux ca să îi încaseze Ionuț Vuliescu, valetul lui se pare, pensia.

Ultima poză a lui György Illés înainte de a muri în 2006 îl arată cam așa.

De când e poza asta? (ultima cunoscută, datată 2022). După calitate, e făcută cu un telefon foarte vechi. Alfred Moses era mai chel (care aici avea un mic moț în chelie) și în 2018. Alfred Moses e născut în 1929, teoretic cu un an mai în vârstă decât Iliescu.

Ar fi multe metodele de a demonstra că el trăiește, cea mai modestă ar fi un scurt video cu el în pat sau poate doar audio vorbind gângurind despre un eveniment curent. Îi știm cu toții vocea. Sau dacă nu poate, măcar să miște un deget, să ne bată cu el în microfon?

12:42 Black holes are hypothetical entities. Of them, the biggest in our galaxy is thought to be at the center and it has several million times the mass of our Sun. However, from time to time, they discover big ones, 32 times the mas of our Sun, and really close, 2000 light years away.

They call them stellar because they think they were initially stars. Not like the one at the center of the galaxy which was formed by dust. How do they know it was not a star covered by dust? Dormant, stopped feeding. Why would a hypothetical dormant black hole stop feeding? Does it have diabetes?

3:12 I came from my walk, wanted to make some corrections in the last posts. 3 supposedly Spanish little girls came and started to hit the cable box. However i think one of them is a 20 years old who poses as a 10, which is not difficult for some Japanese. There was a red Nissan with the LPN PPY parked on the red line next to mailboxes. Pulled the blinds, went to cook and eat. 

4:57 Two hours later, the girls, the papy car are still there.

8:36 Tocmai m-am prins la o chestie. Site-ul wunderground are grafice inclusiv cu presiunea atmosferică pe următoarele zece zile. Portul Constanța este destul de aproape de zona seismică Vrancea ca să fie în aceeași zonă de atracție a lunii și soarelui, iar mareele, deși sunt foarte mici din cauza dimensiunii Mării Negre comparată cu cea a oceanelor și a mareelor terestre simultane sunt o măsură a atracției acestor corpuri cerești.

Atracția nu se exercită la fel în partea apropiată de lună relativă cu partea depărtată, din cauza diferenței de distanță. Forța gravitațională este invers proporțională cu pătratul distanței. Forța de atracție medie dintre masa totală a lunii și a pământului este 10 urmat de 15 zerouri, în tone forță.

Partea mai apropiată e atrasă mai tare iar Pământul se lungește, ca un ou, cu până la câțiva metri (mareele terestre și oceanice), deci se deformează.

Dacă se combină predicția presiunii atmosferice cu cea a mareelor, putem avea șanse de cutremure în zona Vrancea în momentele cu mareele cele mai ridicate și presiunea cea mai scăzută.

Începând cu 23 aprilie, sunt 5 zile cu maree ridicate și două cu maree duble (Soare-Lună). Avem deja presiunea până pe 26, este ridicată, stați liniștiți. Poate doar unul mic pe 24. Dar a plouat mult recent.

9:47 PDT Am început să cred că și precipitațiile pot avea un rol. Dacă de exemplu avem presiune scăzută dar 2 cm de ploaie (20 kg/m²), greutatea apei pe suprafața mare a zonei seismice, (4,863 km² sunt 4,863,000,000 m²) contracarează presiunea atmosferică scăzută și mareea terestră (care este însoțită de cea marină). (Presiune scăzută împreună cu umiditate mare declanșează automat precipitații).

Deci cutremurele se pot produce la presiune atmosferică scăzută combinată cu umiditate scăzută, precipitații recente scăzute (secetă) și maree terestră (atracție soare-lună), deci și marină, înaltă.

11:15 Asta a apărut după ce am scris eu cu bătutul în microfon, chestia de mai sus, nu? 9:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ora pe coasta de vest, este 7:47 AM ora de vară în România) Gropița singură dintre sprâncene, ceva unic ce nu am mai văzut decât la el. De obicei, au două. Da, nu știu, alunițele mai migrează sau se pot acoperi la machiaj. Da, politicienii și actorii (bărbați) se machiază tot timpul. Discret.

12:21 (17).  Not included which means the thing is only the vacuuming part. Wondering if it can be used for vacuuming the intake, after using spray valve cleaner. Yeah i know. Too expensive for the ocasional user. My invention is much cheaper though, @20 bucks.

April 23

4:10 AM Warning. There is a huge bathtub size or bigger pothole "tubhole", about 2-3 inches deep in the middle lane on I5 south bound 11-12 miles north of the interstate bridge. I once or twice saw (read hit) something similar in California. At 80 mph it really put my poor Elantra to the test. Good thing tire pressure was kinda low at 36 front and 34 rear, because of low temperature. I usually go 38 in front, for fuel economy.

Generally, I5 between Olympia and Portland is the worst i ever saw (it). What happened to the infrastructure project of Biden? Went to Ukraine and now Israel?

9:15 În loc de horoscop.

Din studiul statistic pe care l-am făcut în 2016 asupra cutremurelor din România de grad mai mare decât 4 care s-au produs după 1940, cea mai mare corelație a fost găsită cu distanța până la lună. Se poate vedea din prima diagramă din stânga din această foaie de calcul google. Pe diagrama de sus se poae vedea că ele s-au rărit în ultimul timp (la data respectivă, 2016).

Teoria mea spune că cele mai multe cutremure se produc la presiune atmosferică scăzută, scăderea precipiațiilor și maree înalte când alinierea Soare Pământ Lună produce o lună plină sau nouă iar distanța este minimă (apogeu) sau maximă (perigeu).

Vom avea astfel de condiții atmosferice pe 24 seara când distanța la Lună este aproape de maxim (3 zile de la apogeu) iar Luna este în a 2-a zi de scădere dar mareele nu sunt cele mai mari posibile ca în 8 sau 9 mai.

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11:05 Could it be this one that in the meantime got bigger? Image is taken May 2023. But if i look closer, it looks like it has been created by something. The three lines? Those lines go on for the next half miles or so. It also look like there are cuts in the concrete done with a saw. No matter how much i look i can't figure what those are.

2017 ORS 163.732 Stalking

Probably because of what i wrote about Sunday on 213 in Oregon City a State Police car pulling everybody to the right than possibly going to the shopping center near Molalla Ave (i also wrote it could had been an illusion, could had been another car). Also because what i wrote about the name Washington (和神道), architect Minoru etc. BTW, one more idea from seeing the ubiquitous NW on a sign on the road, Pacific NW could stand for Pacific NOW, another, Cobain for Kobe Japan, still thinking about Boeing which reminds me of the name of Chinese martial artist Bolo Yeung, who after he lost all the muscles now looks like the President of China. AM, for Amaterasu? (Main Japanese Shinto Goddess).

Japanese language or Google Translate in relationship with it are realy weird. When i typed the word bo with latin characters it came with a kanji for the word grave. But when i pasted that kanji it came with a transliteration like haka which again means grave (remembering Elvis singing in a karate inspired suit, "hunk a hunk a burning love", Both Elvis and his daughter Priscilla had black belts).

Before i learned more English i always thought he was singing haka haka. Now that i look at the video i see his face looking serious but his body language is almost obscene.


Syllables bo 薄 in Chinese means flimsy and yong 用 use, together meaning 薄用 surge. Nothing obvious further here (but i don't speak Chinese).

I'm going to change the order of what happened because i need to say something first (something that came to mind on trails when i'm finally alone and noise free). I knew a couple of engineers who worked at Boeing one through Mart family. Dragoș Mărgineanțu and his wife Daciana who now to me look like the Romanian blogger Simona Tache (i could be wrong though, i never met Simona Tache and even if i did last time i saw Daciana was i think Christmas 1999 when i also met (by chance, in the same Pacific resort next to Depoe Bay, with Mary, the wife or Ron Bogger, who looked like Priscilla ...Presley), and the other one is Cristi Aniței, who now to me look like Romanian actor Tudor Aaron Istodor, son of Maya Morgenstern, with his wife Cecilia who looked like Iulia... Vântur (she used to work for the City of Seattle), Vânt means wind in Romanian.

Last night around 10 i went to McDonalds after i ate and had a beer. On the upper alley (go there because of inclination that possibly pushes oil on the PCV at the Hiunday on the other alley) two Tualatin Police SUVs. A guy on a bicycle from from the same direction passing me on the right in the same time with last SUV passed me on left. That because i was going really really slow listening to the tick. The guy on the bicycle looked very intrigued at the officer in the last SUV. His face was showing like "now what"? Cop was blond, in his late thirties, blue eyes, looking mean. Bicycle guy in his twenties, brunete, thin.

Today i left for a walk. Just from the start here in the parking lot a Hyundai Elantra four door, about the same age as ours, possibly bigger engine, like 2 liter. Passed me and i could hear no tick.

An old man with a crooked stick like of the counter revolutionary miners in the last picture i posted last night was next to a car right behind my truck smoking acting like ignoring everything. I waited a while and he wouldn't move. He looked very frail so i chose not to tell him to move aside so i backed in the spot next to that car but then had to accelerate. My after market cat especially when cold doesn't work very well so they made their first point of the day on me.

Bad luck in the park. Was raining and got all wet so i went at Tryon through Lake Oswego. Right at the beginning in the parking lot maybe up to 10 small children, a girl dressed with a colored skirt reminding of gypsies, a woman looking like a gypsy, etc.. Did they restart the Waldorf kindergarten in the park again?

While driving there again the parade with weird LPT numbers. About 25% had 2 of the letters from KGB. (They gave us at Mountain Park DMV about one year ago a LPT with JKB which was next in the stack).

While walking at Tryon i was thinking all the time at Angela's surgery ten days from now (suture hernia repair with mesh). Can't get out of my mind how the guy (Physician Assistant Miller, second most common name in the US), who in the third day after open heart surgery came in her room and clipped the 4 temporary pacemaking wires connected to the heart during surgery instead of removing them). He came, he said he was present with the doctor in the operating room. Angela almost pulled those wire while on oxycodone thinking they were remaining suture wires.

And then something weird happened. On a boardwalk that used to be slippery they installed a chicken wire mesh sort of thing.

At Tryon i also met with a woman who looked like Hungarian actress Egri Marta.



... will continue...

June 20

Last night we left Seven Feathers Casino in Canyonville Oregon at 2 AM. I said to Angela i will try to drive as much as i can to get closer to Reno and stop somewhere. That somewhere turned out to be Ashland still in Oregon i guess. First i looked at a Holiday Inn, but scared by the shape of the ACs at the windows. Best Western was sold out. There was an Ashland Hills accross the street but there was a VIP bus iddling its engine in the parking lot and usually where there's such a but there's also a VIP or more. So i passed and stopped in the first rest area and tried to sleep there. Slept 4 hours in the car and wokeup in a big noise from a van. Biggest trouble falling asleep was from the smoke from Casino coming out of our clothes (Second night with only 4 hours, first was at the apartment after i came in contact with an irritating substance that created pains all over my body). Tried to move the car and saw a warning light on the dashboard. It was the left rear brake signal, in plain English. I didn't know that car was that smart. I took it part. It was oxide in bulb's terminal, bulb was in a good shape.

The car was stinking like dog s... big time. Drove the most part of the 500 miles from Canyonville to here with windows a bit lowered but still. BTW this Elantra handles much better than the old one at high speed. (Angela just made some noodles soup and that one stinks also because they absorbed the smell from the apartment. Grabbed the last poop from outside the door just before i left)

All the way from there to here a number of big trucks and SUV approached at high speed from behind and had to pull literally out of the way. For a while Angela drove and it happened to her too once. She got to save my life this way also.

Angela wanted to make a stop at Win River Casino in Redding which we did. While driving on 20 close to 49 gas yellow warning light came on. I didn't know i was so low on gas. Was lucky enough to make it to the first Chevron on 80. But there, trouble. The pump grabbed my card and had to go inside. The man (i think Iranian) came outside, pressed the clear button and then the machine released my card. But i done that myself earlier and it didn't work. He then grabbed my card t and asked me how much gas i wanted. Fill i said, but he kept asking how much and i know the car has a capacity of 13 gallons and i said @12 and took it inside and said to start pumping which i did. T'hen i went inside and he showed me my card on the counter in hard to reach place and had to extend my hand under the plastic protective window to grab it. Then i gave it to him and i payed for... 12 gallons. When i asked him, he said it was a fill-up which the needle was showing it. When i calculated the mileage, it was 34. Never made with this car so low on highways only. But i figured i was on top of the mountains and mileage would have recovered while going down.

A traffic jam on 80 right after and i followed Google Maps and Google maps sent me in a loop and got back exactly where i exited, in the same jam, only one hour later.

For the whole trip our phones were crazy. First think i'm doing when i get back to Portland is i get rid of Hello Mobile by T Mobile (25 dollars a month). Will try now with Mint (15 dollars a month)

I knew from past experiences. When getting close to Reno the craziness begins. This time with too many cars tailgating. Too many cars touching the line between lanes. A guy in a huge truck waiting on the "dead space" between lanes then and then exiting suddenly just when i wanted to exit at exit... 32 in Reno. Had to go on shoulder to avoid it. On Moana and... Virginia avenues. a Panske van was following.

At hotel. Didn't want to park on the main multi-floor parking. Last time when i did so i got to step in some silica absorbent material in the only spot i could find. So i parked in front of the casino (Peppermill). But there is a long way from that parking to the hotel check in. Got there and they were one hour long lines. But they were these machines where you could check in for yourself. Which i did however from the 30 dollars mail offer i started with for a queen now i got without knowing until i got in in a 2 king.

Hotel here has an Italian theme and towers are named Toscany, Milan, etc.. Got my mistake in the Milan tower were a woman with a kid was waiting for her husband in front of her room. Being both so tired, i was sitting in a chair by the elvator, Angela asked her and she of course didn't have a clue. But she still wanted to see the receipt. And the she said she doesn't have a clue. While i was watching the scene, on both screens at hallway entrance scenes with food were unfolding. But what's on the receipt? Nothing except the room number which we finally found in an area of the hotel with rooms for conferences and stuff (VIP i guess). Dialed 0 on the phone and tried to ask the woman then and she passed me to the check in which was busier than usual. Now i'm way too tired with all that driving and no sleeeping so i'm just going to wait to see the final invoice.

October 15

12:47 Tonight i saw they were more items added on top of those but i just gave up taking pictures. Also tried to add the new Hyundai on my insurance policy on Progressive web site and ran into the same problem like last time. It will let you add coverage, play with it for an hour or whatever it but the policy won't change. It's good though cause you can add and remove items and see the price changes. Then a phone number pops up and you get to talk to one of their guys who would add it for you and even tell you verbally the new vehicle has been added but i believe changes will be reflected on your policy only after 5 days. In other words, only thing you can do online by yourself is to remove, not add coverage. I believe it's some sort of hidden, undeclared delay for their own protection like if someone wanted to add a vehicle after it was damaged, stolen etc. or even fraud. In the end he told me about renters' insurance, i wanted for a while now to switch it from Farmers to Progressive where i have my vehicles, cause they will give me a discount for vehicles if i have that on their policy, however they switched me to a third party which asks for more than i currently pay (10 dollars a month) and demand a checking account for monthly automatic drafts. Spent several hours both online and on the phone, talking to who knows whom, especially dollar amounts.

2:12 Today again i used the laptop briefly in the truck and now i got pains though less intense, in about the same areas, on upper side of legs, from knees, belly and all the way to chin and thyroid area. I found on google that laptops normally do emit toxic levels of em frequencies, but what if they are defective or hacked?

9:13 Just looked online, max power for 2.4 Ghz wi-fi is 100 mW or 0.1 Watts. Thinking. If you use it for ten minutes, you get the equivalent of 60 Watts used for one second, right? My current microwave oven works at the same 2.4 GHz and outputs 600 Watts. It's like holding your hand inside for .1 seconds, right?

3:04 It looks like i have no choice here but tell a part of the story with the car. Today i drove back to the shop to take some pictures of several things, to get the type of headlights, etc.. Last night i ordered a fender.

In the first day i saw the car, i drove it briefly and heard a grinding noise on the front right side especially when turning right. I raised the car on jack on a firm point next to the wheel belonging to the frame, far from plastic shields like i did so many times with the old Elantra and so many other cars. I put the car in neutral, turned the wheel and i saw the axle was also oscillating while rotating. Yesterday i went to Autozone and bought an aftermarket one and installed it myself and the noise was gone. But while doing this i saw the floor shield bumped up and raised. None of these two problems where mentioned on the site at the auction.

I really regret i didn't take pictures yesterday, like i always do. I was very tired in an unfamiliar place and there was this familiar smoke smell (like here at the apartment) that was making me high. The guys i spoke with today said some of their neighbors do drugs, especially the ones with many Halloween decorations and on occasions they also jumped the fence, boke windows for stealing batteries so they leave the cars open. Today when i took these pictures with a flash under the car there was this plane circling on very low altitude and i was nervous using the flash upwards so i took a video of the plane and it left when i uploaded it. But the pictures are few and didn't come exactly how i wanted, also again being dizzy from that smoke, but not like in other times. Middle click (mouse wheel) to zoom. Forklift imprints are seen in the shield on the upper side. I bet if you measure that print you will get the width of the forklift's arm.

Then there is this weird indentation on the right of the picture i just can't make sense. I didn't see much when i took the pictures. The smoke and very shiny sunlight prvented me from seeing on phone's screen.


9:29 "Thank You For the Music" Câteodată ăștia chiar pe știrile cele mai nașpa mă fac să zâmbesc... De data asta Orban (al nostru) a nimerit-o (în titlu, nu am citit tot articolul). Însă nu e de râs, cei sacrificați în realitate suntem noi toți, timpul nostru care se scurge la umbra marelui Atilla... Chiar, nu știu cum mai putem zâmbi, râde, merge de pe o zi pe alta.

October 18

A large chunk of this post, that i wrote earlier today got deleted. I don't know how, i will try to re-write it.

I think i said about the magnets that finally got here after being delayed one day (other items, like the fender for the "new" Hyundai got delayed by several days, "because of unprece_dented (popular?) demand").

Magnets are rated 30 pounds, however in reality they don't even hold 5. False advertisement? I got a stronger one i bought at Homo Depot years ago that i think is the one rated at 100 pounds on Amazon but even that one is not strong enough for what i needed and that is pull dents on my new car, cause i don't really like the current method, that reminds too much of Covoodoo. These DIY electro-magnets when applied 1.5 Volts hold 50 pounds. How about when applied 12 volts? 120? Could they possible pull a dent? Thing is, they can create 500 or even 5000 pounds at close contact, however dents are not of regular shape, could use some electromagnetic fluid (grease mixed with iron filings) to fill the distance at start. Still re-searching.

Then i saw the news, in my beloved Romania. Dan Barna "shot (shout) an allusion to their political allies", USR, saying they are like the 300 spartans that stood the king of Xerxes and perished without a chance but still fought to the end. I thought it was an allusion to all of us.  An invitation to give up.

But it's the opposite cause it's them who are the minority. The slightly different species that evolved separately for tens of thousands of years in Australia. They are specialized in manipulation, in ways european modern thinking (or even classical) cannot understand due to lack of tools (concepts)(wondering who are all the philosophers and scientists of our days). They got to control everything in the last hundreds of years. It all started before the creation of states, as states being easier (more efficient) to control as whole entities. Then i said the majority, normal Hungarians, who have mostly European genes probably look at all these and being perplexed like everybody else.

Then i saw the pictures with Valentin Ceaușescu i wrote later about (lower, i write these lines on top or in place of what i lost, after) that triggered the need to re-do a post about Nicolae Ceaușescu (amintiri din câmpul cu mătrăgună) which required yet another hour of my life, bring forth the old post with Elena Ceaușescu. I said the actress,  Hedi Lammar who did her was a case of both a beautiful and smart woman, with an attitude and mind of her own, born in Austria, who disappeared from Hollywood  by the time Elena Ceaușescu appeared in Romania as wife of the dictator.  Then i rhetorically asked myself, why (re)do this old post since they were no results whatsoever for what i've done so far, and it all means wasting my time and everybody's. Then somehow everything i wrote to this point or my work for half day got deleted from the post, wasting way more time.

(I can't believe how primitive and time consuming are the tools i work with. Blogger is a very old platform, they have drive now that saves every version of a spreadsheet you work on, but here, nothing, and if you delete by mistake the version you're working on you delete everything. Same with matches, i crop on my computer dozens of versions with the most basic tool and i see the alignment only after i assemble the two images on a blog post, in dozens of iterations which requires hours of work).

End of deleted part (or what i can remember).
125 KGP Jack_son Painting and Remodeling

Do i have to tell this story too. Back in early 90s my father calls (i was working as a programmer back then, doing accounting and salaries) me saying he wants to expand his shop (furniture) into a factory with the help of Gerard, a guy from Australia and another one from France (forgot his name) and Fântănă, a guy from Bucharest (he was born in those places, a relative of his wife). A place near Fălticeni, Suceava county. Foresta SRL i guess was the proposed name. I think they even started, buying to my father a few used machines which he installed in a building he made from a sort of concrete he invented, made of wood chips and cement. So i went in there and one night i sat at a table with Fântână, the guy from France and his wife and while my father was pouring his own type of brandy made of grapes residue from wine and sugar, i got drunk and talked nonsense in French all night with the two guys, of which of course my father didn't understand a thing.

Can't remember the outcome of the evening, but a few months later i spent a whole week in Măgurele, near Bucharest, trying to figure the accounting of that firm when their computer was not busy with that guy's son playing Spice. The firm had one branch in Bucharest that was doing car alarms, by the design and using the equipment (a wave soldering machine) brought by the guy from Australia and also selling phones brought as junk from Telecom Australia. One good thing was the man took me one day in his Mercedes to the Seismology Institute where i saw the same (working) seismometers i see nowadays in the pictures with Mărmureanu. The business (at least my father's part) did not go anywhere, my father had a few employees using those machines, but he had no marketing skills and by the time i visited him in 2004 he was only doing beekeeping, also cashing a check from being retired and the shop was empty.

I looked in the news today and after all the "training" i got by doing matches, i had a flash-back and recognized this guy as being Fântână.

6:01 Got my answer from Progressive. First she said she is not the person i was looking for, however she advised about California privacy laws while the totals of the estimates is published on IAA web site anyways. What i believe is since i am the current owner i am entitled to any record created since the existence of the vehicle.

6:27 Just opened an "automated" email with an "unsubscribe" button from Progressive that came earlier which contains "files related to your claim #21-9013463", however that claim is closed. After a warning that says that if you don't agree with it you should not use it (a bit of recurrence don't you think) "the files" basically try to say that everything is related to that claim and everything else related to everything on their web site and their associates, including emails and estimates from shops is copyrighted material. Since they never sent it to me while the claim was opened or maybe they did and i didn't pay attention (which was about one month time period) i feel like this is a threat, at least as timing about what i just posted above and generally harassment, and worse than that, bullying. The email screenshots taken from my computer i published are not related to my past claim but the car i just bought. I also wanted to publish the repair estimate for my old Hyundai Elantra (how did they know i will and came to threaten), as i did with the amounts they paid first and after they further damaged the car om the shop, and gave me no choice to retain it. I also believe they choose the name Nicholas Sprague (who in reality is that guy from Jeopardy, Buzzy). They can't possibly have adjusters that speak like that guy. I know who i am and my name is not Nicholas or Nicolae or Nicu or anything that starts with N. Note the estimate was done September 1st or ten days after the accident.

My name is not Jeorge either.

Estimate done by Artistic Auto Body on Hunziger Street in tigard. Note the price for both outer quarter panels (area above rear wheels which are not bumpers) that where very little damaged and could have been easily repaired, a total of over 5000 for parts and work.

Here is the picture with the car 4 days after the accident (August 24) or when Nicholas agreed and paid for the car to be towed at Artistic Auto Body. I don't have a picture (was quite upset those days) from the left side, but it was in a similar shape. Also the rear windshield was intact.

On Friday September 3rd or right after they issued the estimate, i went to Artistic Auto Body to pick the car. However, the car was in a bad shape, with engine knocking, broken rear windshield and sitting on a side, like with damaged suspension, foil and tape around the rear end. As i drove the car that night from the accident scene home 20 miles, no problems (except a truck tried to hit me again and i pulled right), i planned to drive it to a shop, but now it was impossible. In that night, Nicholas sent me another email offering 1,700 more for the car and 300 more for hit and run which he refused until that time. Unfortunately i forgot to upload that picture and now i can't find it. However, it is not much different from the picture of the car at IAA site except for the suspension part. Note that they added a value to the car, 6,244, but not repair cost which according to Artistic in the link above is 14,543. They will probably sell the car for over 3,000 in auction. Which means that Progressive ends up paying 3,000 for a total loss of a car that is worth over 6,000, instead of fixing it which would have been about the same in an honest shop. What do you want, it's a business for profit, not a charity.

11:47 Imunizare prin infecție, echivalentă sau mai bună ca vaccinarea.

Exide

It doesn't have anything to do with X from Xenu and his eternal battery. It's simply because it has a lifetime of 5 years instead of 4. And a shelf life of 6. Talking about the Exide brand, the one i have in the truck.

Today Angela reported difficult starts. A while ago i fixed the battery's positive connector which clamp's ends where bumping into each other not allowing a real good tightening. So i filed a bit one of those ends and voila! Fixed it, wasn't moving around anymore after tightening. The negative seemed solid, i gave it a good tightening together with all the numerous nuts around the connector. Man this car has lots of nuts around battery's connectors. She said that miles are high (60k since) and many starts and she is ready for a battery replacement.

Last time i searched, to my surprise, the cheapest decent battery i found for 2013 Elantra was around 150 dollars, Exide for 155.  Today i did one more search on an idea, "where can i find exide batteries" and again to my surprise i found, (where?) at the nearest Home Depot, for 107. Decent price, i said to myself but Angela was going to sleep (she did "boxes" today, the toughest job at work, which involves lifting hundreds of boxes, all day, 16-25 pounds each). So i tried to do some searches while she was sleeping, the guy upstairs didn't let me, every time i started to search he started to squeak, at first waking Angela, then after i complained (not after she hit the wall several times) he let her sleep and came on the other side on top of my head so i stopped and slept myself.

Slightly bigger capacity, from 60 to 65. So after 8 i ran to Home Depot to get it. First, i forgot the mask in the car, (when are they going to stop with the stupid masks) and tried to take a mask from a stack at the entrance and they where clumped together and the others fell but i caught them in mid air and put them back, after touching a few, and then could not find the battery, "nobody in the store knew they sold batteries", "we used to sell them" said the man after i showed him the picture from their site saying "one available at Tigard store", then after i told him how i did the search he remembered "They keep moving them around" though i'm sure battery was in the same place for  years because if was full of dust, (just checked, shelf life is 6 years), i hope it's been for less, maybe since they opened the automotive department. Hence the price.

More adventures. At the checkstand big screen said they were charging 121, no explanation. Difference is the core price, got to take the old one back tomorrow. Usual drill in parking lot, guys popping out of nowhere in front of my car, stuff like that.

But on the road. Got at the intersection with exit/ramp street (forgot the name, nevermind, Carman LOL)  while waiting on red a guy on a Harley, more than 6 ft tall, blue eyes, stopped at my right (two lanes turning left) moving his bike's horns left right several time, finally took off, for some reason, i didn't feel safe driving next to him so i let him do the corner before i left, then he turned his head left, probably towards where i was supposed to be, and i thought i recognized a familiar face from the news of course. Then he took first right, i guess there's a motel and a gas station there.

Got back home, popped both the trunk where the battery was and the hood and looked for some tools in the pocket of the door (man this car hides stuff in that pocket because of its shape), could not find what i was looking for but when i got out i saw a guy on a bicycle getting away from my opened trunk.

Then i went inside, searched for tools, more stuff happened but when i went outside the first time a guy on a motorcycle started in that second to make a terrible noise in the parking lot. I guess it was after 9, then i saw him riding his bike around the block with a martyr figure on his face. He then stopped the bike and did it all again about 3 times in total, every time when i was getting back outside. Finally got all my tools together (most difficult part of any job done on moonlight in the parking lot). Replacing battery itself took about 2 minutes. Could loosen negative by hand only. So that was the problem. However, when i did a test drive towards Wilsonville and back, got 40 mpg (on dashboard, round trip), like never before. Car has a different attitude. Feels like after i first got it and replaced the 5 years old battery. One or two steps on driveability on a 1-10 scale. Most likely because of the EPS (Electric Power Steering) which of course is depending on batteries connectors.

Coming back from Wilsonville for the first time i accelerated to 75 on the 65 area, got this habit from the recent long drives, and of course i ran into a State Police Dodge parked on the right side. He did not follow me but a guy with white bright lights had a turn signal that was contrasting with those white bluish lights in such a way for a second it gave me the impression of Police car flashing. On the last half mile while descending (about 100 ft altitude diference) towards my home exit a guy slowed down unexpectedly without brake lights coming on while i was doing a "long freeway pass" and had to steer instantly to avoid him and these are only the important scenes i had to go through tonight to replace a car's battery.