A couple notes on the old Honda Civic:
I just changed the bulb for the right headlamp. I had noticed the low-beam wasn’t working back in late May, but hadn’t gotten around to changing the thing until now. I was careful not to drive this car at night, so it wasn’t that much of [...]
I finally got around to getting new tires for the Civic. I used Sam’s Club, which had relatively inexpensive tires and installation charges, and wound up with Goodyear Regatta 2 tires, as these seemed to be most appropriate, given what Sam’s Club had in stock for this car. Everything is running much more [...]
Some notes on the JFK AirTrain and JetBlue from the past week:
The JFK AirTrain project came online earlier this year after many, many delays, including a fatal accident during testing. The AirTrain is basically the airport’s inter-terminal shuttle, extended to reach the Jamaica LIRR/subway station on the E line, and the A line JFK [...]
My brother was in town yesterday, and he and my father changed the oil in the car. For the record, the mileage is just below 59,000 miles. According the Honda Owner’s Link website, we’ll have to do this every 3,500 miles, more or less. The timing belt, according to the scheduled maintenance [...]
New York City Subway Track Maps
This shows the location of switches, terminals, etc. For example, the 72nd Street IRT stop allows switches between local and express only before the train reaches the station. This applies to both uptown and downtown.
Here’s an article from The New Republic by Gregg Easterbrook about the Axel of Evil, i.e., the perverse public policy that favors SUVs and “light trucks” at the expense of the general good (these big vehicles aren’t safer, kill people in other cars, and consume more fuel while expelling more pollutants, all well known issues), [...]
We finally got the stereo mostly installed. “Mostly” in this case means the not-quite-clear-what-the-previous-owners-did; in other words, the uncertainties about what happened to the wiring, whether the plug or the factory radio was broken, etc., have been resolved, and the new Sony stereo works.
In the end, I had to order a few more parts, [...]
Here are photos of the car at last. Unfortunately, my brother, while sitting in the back seat on a drive uptown, peeled off the godawful tint in the back. It was necessary: we couldn’t see out the rear unless there was bright sunlight or the cars following us had their headlights on. [...]
We might have to get manuals someplace, since the car didn’t come with any. Aftermarket owners manuals can be found at Helminc.com.
There’s a mystery about the radio/keyless entry/alarm. The alarm seems to be third party, and is tied to a keyless entry system. The remote has two buttons, and says “Prestige” on it. I don’t see a model number beyond that, just some FCC number for it being a radio transmitter. I [...]