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Should be home tomorrow.
2023 Hyundai Kona Limited AWD (wife) / 2015 Golf TSI (me) / 2019 Chevrolet Cruze Premier RS (daughter #1) / 2020 Hyundai Accent SE (daughter #2) / 2023 Subaru Impreza Base (son)
Made it home. About 13,000 miles added to the car since we left on 8/5. Well, my car anyway. I’m sure we added similar numbers to the Crosstrek.
No more adventures on the road, but I did discover that my torpedo case was severely damaged due to poor packing and shifting after it was loaded into the trailer. Hopefully I can fix it at some point.
Alaska ✊
It will be the Explorer's 11th road trip in less that 2 years.
I define road trip as at least 500 miles one way.
This trip should pretty much the the longest one way trip, just over 900 miles.
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We will be convoying with the grandkids(3 year old and 9 month old) and their parents in another Explorer, so we are staying overnight, then finishing the trip the next day.
If it was just my wife and myself, probably do it one shot.
We've done Hartford CT to South Bend IN or back in one day many times.
Have been for a week, but didn't get a chance to clean the car until the other day. We had a nice early season snow event almost 2 weeks ago, snow has stuck around, roads are a terrible mess of grit and de-icer - car gets filthy even without precip. Winter driving time is here.
On the road lately with the time change, plenty of derps out with no headlights long before dawn or after dusk, and awful studded tires are everywhere, helping keep our roads in a non-first world condition.
Yes, I actually have three Blackvues in the collection now: The original 750S and now two 900S. During the winter months, they take a little longer to start up when it is extremely cold (certainly much colder than temps you're talking about), but the "Blackvue for your safe driving" statement always occurs within a minute or so of starting the car (the 900s are faster than the 750, without a doubt).
What I do notice is that the parking mode feature, particularly on the 900s which did not require the magic box stuff that the 750 has, they tend to shut down much faster due to "low voltage." Again, not surprising given the extra demand on batteries (and reduced capacity) in cold temperatures, but I do find that annoying. During the summer months, the units are typically still running in parking mode when I start the car, so they just say "parking mode off" when I turn the ignition on (no startup needed).
Ten minutes definitely sounds out of character. I wonder if the capacitor in the unit itself is just getting tired.
It was warmer today (around maybe 32F when I left the office, unknown temp inside) - camera started right up when I started the car. It only seems to have the quirk on really cold days when the car is parked outside (more cold days appear to be coming). I don't want to miss a fun crazy clip or something much worse. Nothing interesting as of late even with the snowiest November in many years. Roads have been adequately cleared most of the time, my only aggravation is kind of the Carlin standard - timid people going too slow (many warm climate transplants here) or riding my rear end (trucks and misguided confidence).
I hope the unit isn't failing, although if it does, should be an easy swap as I assume the cables are all still the same.
That second battery box... I assume it is to assist with parking mode. Have you noticed any changes where the camera says "shutting down" quickly after you turn off the car? An added box, if wired correctly, should let it run a good long time when the car is off. If it isn't charged or charging correctly, that might be causing your unit issues.
I don't even have the second box (just wired directly into the car through a 5A fuse on a constant power and an "accessory" circuit), and it usually won't turn off at all during the summer months, even when I only use the car once in a day. I think my son installed our 750S in August of 2018 (shortly after the "canoe incident"), and it still seems to work fine with it's "PowerMagic" box (I don't think that uses the extra battery, just provides the functionality that's now built into the 900S), but you have to set the accessory up for the parking mode power, and it works on a timer basis (like 2 hours, 4 hours, etc) in addition to the battery voltage monitoring).
I agree with your concern about missing the fun stuff. It would just figure to have whatever happens, particularly something you really *need* it to record, to happen when the device is either not recording, or thinking it's recording and not actually recording (such as a bad SD card).
I try to reformat the SD cards every several weeks, and I keep an eye on the camera, knowing luck and odds etc. I seldom had any error messages on 100F+ days when the camera was sitting in the heat, but it might be sensitive to cold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waoMRI7mB4E
I cannot quite tell what type of pickup caused the crash; I think it is a pre-discontinued Ford Ranger.
Headlight shape does look like a Ranger. I wish our snowy roads were that uniform. Here it is either a thick coating of de-icer to the point of resembling recent rain, or slushy mounds so high cars bottom out on them. Maybe a dry patch here and there.
It cooled off a little here again. Maybe 23F when I left work, car sitting outside all day. Camera started up after the the car warmed up inside. However, of course, in the garage this morning, no issues. I think the cold is a thing.
I have forgiven these bad driver's their trespasses even before finding closure through ridicule on YouTube.
It was 32F per the car when I left the office, car was cold as it sat outside for 8 hours - camera started right up. I wonder if there's some kind of water driven processor in it that freezes
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Very cool. It’s in Indiana, correct?
Grab a loose meat sandwich at the Lanford lunch box?
2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic / 2022 Ram 1500 Bighorn, Built to Serve
Of course, I'm fighting a cold and cough, so my appetite is not all there...
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Ha ha. It never sounded good to me either!
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Very cool. It’s in Indiana, correct?
Grab a loose meat sandwich at the Lanford lunch box?
Yep, Evansville. I was headed up to Indy and there's another filming location in Bloomington, so I made the trip - who knows if I will ever be in that area again (I can't imagine). In Cincinnati now, which has a lot of locations, most memorable to me for Rain Man.
Lanford is much larger than I imagined, I think I might have spotted Rodbell's and the site of Lanford Custom Cycle, too.
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Something about a road trip around here, some roads/highways are pretty rough! Reminds me of Chicago or Detroit. I wasn't expecting it.
Upkeep of local surface streets have really deteriorated over the last 5-10 years.
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Flights weren't too bad, just one stop. Only so many directs to eastern locations out of Spokane.