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One of the GM boats from the 80's was almost like that, but at least all you had to do was take off the wheel to get at the sparkplugs. 
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Indeed. It's gonna be cold tomorrow. I anticipate a long process, with me going back inside every fifteen minutes or so.
But I'm taking out the driver's seat to make getting under there easier. It's just four bolts. And I can vacuum under there while the spot is open. 
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GenJerDan wrote: Replace the part
Replace the piece of plastic you just cut out
...aaaand there's the rub. Does that step involve require you to remove the center console, steering wheel, dashboard...?
GenJerDan wrote: Guess which method I'll be doing this weekend
The method that voids the warranty? 
If it's a known issue and the manufacturer isn't doing anything about it: There's the perfect excuse to name and shame. What make/model/year?
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Any 5th generation Camaro (mine's a 2012 RS convertible). I don't know about the later ones.
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Do you even need heat in that thing? You drive a convertible Camaro in the snow?
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We are a two car family. A 21 year old Camry and a 4 year old Camry. (I love Toyotas.) Some 17 years ago, the older one started to make a clacking sound whenever I hit a slight bump in the road. The repair shop said there are rubber grommets at the ends of suspension tie rods that needed to be replaced. Parts cost would be minimal, but labor was over $600!  It turned out they had to completely remove the engine-transmission assembly to replace the grommets. When the mechanic saw the shock in my face, he told me the only purpose of the grommets was to prevent the noise. I can drive the car as it was, if I am willing to live with the clacking sound.
Well, that was 17 years ago and we still go merrily clacking on our way. We don't even hear it any more!
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GenJerDan wrote: But the manufacturer isn't doing a dang thing about it.)
I take it you feel they should.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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At least metal, or partially metal, rather than the brittle plastic they used would be a Good Idea.
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OxiDaksi - Thikhai Thikhai[^]
I have this playlist with mostly fast-paced dance(able) electronic music.
I haven't listened to it in a while because I'm currently more into soundtracks and piano music.
But apparently I've been adding to the list which made me find this track by surprise.
OxiDaksi play psytrance, but apparently they call it dark psytrance or darkpsy (I've found these psychedelics love sub-genres).
Calling it fast-paced would be an understatement.
After the intro I immediately heard why I added this to my list and I thanked past me for adding this for present me 
Thanks me!
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Well that was Fun. Enjoyed it.
Thanks from Me Too.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Sander Rossel wrote: I'm currently more into soundtracks and piano music.
That's pretty much what I'v been making the past few years. On YouTube: "Tdis - Topic", if you haven't listened to me before.
The Vineyard is almost all piano. The others are more soundtracky/ambientish.
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I have listened to Tdis recently.
I didn't know it was yours.
Good stuff!
You now have one subscriber
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Cool. Thanks.
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By the way, you should put that stuff on Bandcamp, it has lots of ambient music and in your niche Bandcamp may be better promotion than YouTube 
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thedoorintosummer.bandcamp.com
I think that's the URL. I'm still more or less internetless...waiting on Telekom to get its head out of its exhaust pipe.
Bandcamp is not as up-to-date as YouTube (the stuff on YouTube was automatically put there by DistoKid when I published to SoundCloud, iTunes, Deezer, Amazon, etc.)
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Not exactly my cup of tea, but it did remind me of some music that a guy I used to work with recorded vocals for. No singing, just spoken words. He's a big guy with a deep voice; DJs love him for the fact that they don't have to reprocess his recordings to take it down an octave, so he's actually turned that into a bit of a sideline. He's basically given a few written sentences and has to read them out in various styles. For a few hundred bucks. Not bad. Then the DJs mix that in with whatever they're working on.
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Found it. They call it hardstyle. My ex-coworker goes by the name of Tekgnosis, so if you find something on Youtube with that name, that's probably him.
Disclaimer: While his vocals are interesting...the "music" is way too bouncy and repetitive for me.
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Hardstyle is pretty popular in the Netherlands!
We had Thunderdome in the 90's (and I think they only recently quit).
Apparently they started back up in 2017: Thunderdome (music festival) - Wikipedia[^]
Hardstyle - Wikipedia[^] is a Dutch electronic dance genre mixing influences from techno and hardcore.
Reading that I guess Thunderdome is not quite hardstyle, but gabber and hardcore techno while hardstyle has influences of techno and hardcore...
Patato potato, right? 
Anyway, his voice sounds very familiar!
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Sander Rossel wrote: Anyway, his voice sounds very familiar!
According to what he was told (by actual DJs), he's got the sort of voice that DJs want for voiceovers, but they always end up recording some random guy but have to reprocess the audio to get the pitch lower - which tends to make it sound bad. But my buddy's already got this deep voice, so he can record exactly what they want without any further tweaking.
I remember his girlfriend saying she loves to rest her head on his chest and listen to him talk. I...have not had that experience; I'm happy just to take her word for it.
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Not a fan of hardstyle either, because of the repetitiveness. But this not so kid sister safe song makes me smile and bang my head every time I play it. Warnng: F-bombs: TECHNOBOY 'Catfight'
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Cool stuff.
Somehow reminded me of Air, specifically Sonic Armada[^].
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