Honda 5.1 Frankenstein 2023

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Three short drives this past week with just 15 albums in the Vehicle folder:

Group 87 - Sublime Feline
Shawn Phillips - She Was Waitin’ for Her Mother at the Station in Torino and You Know I Love Baby but It’s Getting Too Heavy to Laugh
Lou Reed - Rock ’n’ Roll
Sting - Bring On the Night / When the World Is Running Down You Make the Best of What’s Still Around
Terje Rypdal - Steady
Radiohead - Climbing Up the Walls
Synergy - Slaughter on Tenth Ave

Sting - Down So Long
Zuider Zee - Thank You
Synergy - Ancestors
Midge Ure - I See Hope in the Morning Light
Radiohead - No Surprises
Jan Hammer - Darkness/Earth In Search of a Sun
Synergy - Delta Two
Supertramp - Lady
Synergy - Launch at Dawn
Soft Machine - Facelift

Kevin Gilbert - Waiting
Group 87 - Hall of Glass
Terje Rypdal - Strange Behaviour
Zuider Zee - The Breaks
Soft Machine - Moon in June

 

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No difference actually; it's still one song at a time (randomly).

The struggle for commercial release listening time is real.

Yes, we've been blessed this past year or so. Bank accounts: not so much. If I told you how much I spent just this year....jeez I could have bought a beater to drive around. lol.

 

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Yes, we've been blessed this past year or so. Bank accounts: not so much. If I told you how much I spent just this year....jeez I could have bought a beater to drive around. lol.

I've got 3 beaters I rotate; '88 Civic, '97 4Runner and '04 acura TL. My wife drives the one with the payment attached for another year.

 

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UPDATE: I've settled on 40 albums at a time on a spare Crucial 2TB SSD as about the right balance to feel the music is fresh. The re-start skip track issue seems to almost disappear with 40 albums indexed rather than 500 albums to find tracks.

Had a fabulous drive on Thursday afternoon, marvelling how pleasant the music was and how well the old best was running. All wonderful UNTIL I lost power in the engine! This was about 1/2 a mile from home. I'd just made it over a hill and could coast while I figured out where to get it off the road. I did see a small opening in the oncoming traffic, so I quickly cut into the church driveway and coasted almost to the parking lot. This was the church we were married in so that's a neat twist! That was 7pm. AAA towing is a PITA these days, no valid status updates and they finally arrived about 12:30am to tow the car to our tech's shop at home. Awaiting word now on this no spark or fuel starve situation; it's possibly the igniter. rotor or fuel pump. It's not a daily driver so okay.

Here is the playback from this drive ((9/19) and some previous outings:

Jan Hammer - The Animals
Steve Tibbetts - Metal Summer
The Flower Kings - Stardust We Are, Part 3 (re-recorded 1998 version)
Jellyfish - New Mistake
National Health - T.N.T.F.X.
Unwed Sailor - Bitte' End
Happy the Man - Stepping Through Time
Robin Trower - Daydream
Ozric Tentacles - Green Incantation

Kevin Gilbert - Goodness Gracious
Mike Keneally - Race the Stars
Terje Rypdal - Steady
Peter Hammill - Imperial Zeppelin
Romeo Void - Just Too Easy
3rd Matinee - Silver Cage
Happy the Man - Kindred Spirits
Robin Trower - Man of the World
Radiohead - Electioneering
The Tubes - Mondo Bondage
R.E.M. - These Days
Mikael Åkerfeldt - The Weak Heart
Robin Trower - I Can’t Wait Much Longer
The Amazing - When the Colours Change
Fountains of Wayne - Hung Up on You
Radiohead - Exit Music (for a Film)
Mike Keneally - Pretzels
The Tubes - What Do You Want From Life

Midge Ure - Sweet 'n' Sensitive Thing
Robin Trower - Sinner’s Song
National Health - Elephants
Mikael Åkerfeldt - Druglord Panic
Spirit - Street Worm
The Flower Kings - There Is More to This World
Mikael Åkerfeldt - Ode to Confusion in A Minor
Volto! - Quirk
Unwed Sailor - Mute the Charm
Radiohead - Climbing Up the Walls
Fountains of Wayne - Stacy’s Mom

Ozric Tentacles - Storm in a Teacup
Robin Trower - I Can’t Stand It
Unwed Sailor - Windy City Dreams
Leon Russell - Me and Baby Jane
Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien
Mikael Åkerfeldt - Northern Hemispheres
Fountains of Wayne - Mexican Wine
The Aristocrats - Sgt. Rockhopper
Spirit - Mr. Skin
Jan Hammer - Light/Sun
Edgar Winter - Winter's Dream: Entrance
Volto! - Whopner
Happy the Man - Lunch at the Psychedelicatessen
Steve Tibbetts - Another Year

 

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That was 7pm. AAA towing is a PITA these days, no valid status updates and they finally arrived about 12:30am to tow the car to our tech's shop at home. Awaiting word now on this no spark or fuel starve situation; it's possibly the igniter. rotor or fuel pump. It's not a daily driver so okay.

Good luck with your ride, bummer to have it die on ya.
I've found I could get better roadside service for a whole lot less money, having the roadside service plan on my auto insurance policy than paying the yearly AAA fee.
YMMV

 

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Good luck with your ride, bummer to have it die on ya.
I've found I could get better roadside service for a whole lot less money, having the roadside service plan on my auto insurance policy than paying the yearly AAA fee.
YMMV

The Honda should be a simple fix and not too costly.

This family has 4 AAA gold cards and the tow results score is 1.5 out of 4.0 incidents:
1. Downtown Chicago - sat too long with lights on (duh), ran battery down - NEVER dispatched (got a mercy jump and we made it to concert barely)
2. Near house - son's 4Runner lost auto transmission - GOOD flatbed was there less than 1 hour (luck of the draw)
3. Alabama - other son's CR-V ignition switch failed - NEVER dispatched (tech trick, hold the key in position for 60 miles, dropped it at the shop)
4. Near house - my case above - FINALLY six hours after the request made

This tow driver agreed the current automated dispatch sucks badly; he says use any wrecker service, this forces AAA reimbursement. Hate to give up on them, because they have gotten me out of a few jams, just not lately. The mighty have fallen.

 

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Only saw this thread now, so not sure if this is still relevant, but I would not use an HDD in a car. Too much vibration. SSDs are cheap.

 

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Only saw this thread now, so not sure if this is still relevant, but I would not use an HDD in a car. Too much vibration. SSDs are cheap.

Thanks, I'd already switched to Crucial 2TB SSD several months ago; the WD 2TB EasyStore HDD I started out with did not take kindly to all of my constant desk>car>desk>car daily handling and failed. No problems since.