The 2010 Mitsubishi Endeavor came in from the dealer with door lock issues. After a little troubleshooting Lloyd found a few other electrical issues including the cabin dome light – just like we’d recently dealt with in the Nissan Murano a few months back. That lead him to go looking for the fuses. And the […]
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With some wear and tear your FOBIK key may eventually stop working. Sometimes that’s because there’s no longer good contacts between the parts on the circuit and the internal components. A little soldering fixes it right up.
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Earlier this year, Lloyd got an Autel Maxisys 508 code scanner. It does a bunch of useful stuff for automotive electronics but for this job it let Lloyd add an additional, recognized key to this 2016 Dodge without having to head to the dealer.
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A local dealer brought us a Dodge Ram to add the stereo antenna to. Lloyd popped open the dash to add and found a complete mess from a previous installation. This happens sometimes and the wires need cleaning up to improve the safety and reliability. In this case that was using a proper join, soldering,
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Here’s the basic steps on how to bypass the passlock 2 chip in your slightly older GM vehicle –
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A good friend asked for a little help adding a wireless charger to his 2020 Ioniq. The kit was ordered off Amazon and the install went pretty smoothly. It turns out the gear shift is REALLY difficult to get out and requires a great deal of force.
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Our favourite pizza place had an issue with their primary mixer and got Lloyd to take a look at it. Turns out the bearing was shot, the grease needed replacing completely, and the mixer needed a little TLC. Since there haven’t been too many Thunderbird mixers through the shop… it needed a good teardown to
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This one was sort of fun – if you have the time and know how to play a bit of detective! Tracking down a random glitch with the light on the visor vanity mirrors in this 2015 Nissan Murano took a bit of time. Lloyd did check the batteries first and, as he mentioned in
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This is one of those tips and tricks that’s just helpful to know – how to pull the glove box from a 2016 to ’18 Honda Pilot. Why would you want to pull the glove box? To access things like the control unit and install a remote starter, for example. Have something to add to
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As with most of the vehicle electronic projects we get in the shop, this was a customer request: they needed cruise control in their 2014 Kia Soul. After a quick glance at the ‘net for reference material, Lloyd decided a video needed to be made. We hit eBay for parts and got to it. The
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