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Subaru Recalls Cars as Some Perfumes Cause Malfunctions: Could affect up to 2.3 million vehicles
Wall Street Journal ^
| March 1, 2019
| Chieko Tsuneoka
Posted on 03/01/2019 11:29:42 AM PST by billorites
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To: rlmorel
“And I admit, I have never known a conservative woman to wear it! “
patchouli must have been invented to cover up body odor from almost never bathing, since that seems like what so many people use it for ..
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posted on
03/01/2019 12:53:59 PM PST
by
catnipman
((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
To: billorites
seems to me that if a mere smell can disable a car, then the engineering has pretty much gone over the hairy line ...
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posted on
03/01/2019 12:55:54 PM PST
by
catnipman
((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
To: billorites
It's amazing the manufacturer's want a computer with wheels on it. New cars can be a pain in the butt. Another reason I prefer paid off older vehicles.☺
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posted on
03/01/2019 1:01:29 PM PST
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: CodeToad
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posted on
03/01/2019 1:04:09 PM PST
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: billorites
The Internet of Things haz smellz.
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posted on
03/01/2019 1:05:44 PM PST
by
TADSLOS
(I gotta see the candy first, then I get in the van. IÂ’m not stupid.)
To: Uncle Miltie; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON; Yaelle
Jerry: I hate rental cars. Nothin' ever works: the window doesn't work, the radio doesn't work... and it smells like a cheap hooker... [pause] Or is that you?
Elaine: Gimme ten bucks and find out...
To: Celerity
I worked with a guy that bought one in the late 1970s. I think one of the side blinker lights went out, and when he went to replace it, found that the bulb wasn't socketed, but soldered to wires.
Not a problem to most people, just an annoyance. He was a EE, so it was more of a design manufacturing curiosity.
Another guy's wife had the cheaper or earlier model. Some vent or window wasn't working right, and after some disassembly, the found that it wasn't assembled correctly, some part was backwards. Must have been pre-poka-yoke parts design.
To: catnipman
Thanks for that neat dodge.
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posted on
03/01/2019 1:18:25 PM PST
by
Migraine
To: billorites
Boy are they lucky. It could have been a feminine product instead. Now that would have been a cataclysmic event. It may would have ended the manufacturer's future solvency.
To: BobL
People joke about lesbians affinity for Subarus, but whats often forgotten is that Subaru actively decided to cultivate its image as a car for lesbians.
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posted on
03/01/2019 1:33:18 PM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: 1Old Pro
Are there really enough lesbians to make a difference?
And how many have enough dough to buy a decent car anyway?
Now the Subaru dog commercials I can see...that’s genius.
To: billorites
Not to worry...... Love will surely overcome the problem.
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posted on
03/01/2019 1:37:27 PM PST
by
bert
( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
To: nascarnation
Now the Subaru dog commercials I can see...thats genius.Dogs are buying cars now? maybe the self driving ones.
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posted on
03/01/2019 1:37:52 PM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: billorites
Perfume can mess with the car? Weird.
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posted on
03/01/2019 1:38:57 PM PST
by
Pajamajan
( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't waiting. Do it today.)
To: catnipman
I wouldn’t care if they weren’t trying to asphyxiate me at the same time.
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posted on
03/01/2019 1:39:01 PM PST
by
rlmorel
(If racial attacks were as common as the Left wants you to think, they wouldn't have to make them up.)
To: billorites
I remember an old SAGA magazine article from fifty years ago, in which it was said perfume or cigarette smoke could make a computer choke.
We used to make them choke and stop, at a company I worked for in the 1970s. Light a cigarette, hold it near their air intake, and them machine would choke to death, and then we would have to “reinitialize” it, wiping out all the stored data on the computer.
To: mplc51
I prefer the dollar kind, anyway.
To: billorites
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posted on
03/01/2019 1:57:19 PM PST
by
sauropod
(Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I was thinking it had to related to smoke or carbon monoxide activating a detector of some sort. Strong perfume is really nasty stuff, but disabling a modern car is quite a feat.
To: CJ Wolf
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