Age is relative...
Some of the oldest folks know are chronologically younger by decades (I'm 70). Some of the youngest folks know are older than me...
Am told to act my age all the time...but...that is who/what I am and strive to keep that child in my till the day I die...
Stuff we worked on at SunLabs decades ago are just coming to market and kibitz with lots of kids working on tomorrow's stuff...
Cup holders on the dash is one of the stupidest ideas that has caught on with all OEMs and is a LAGS and SOS thing...When ordering my 1996 Suburban...all the sales folks would pitch was how many cup holders it came with...as if that was on top of my 'have to have list'...
In frontal crash...it will send your sugary drink into all of your dash electronics...
Highly integrated anything is something NOT desired. It is way cheaper for the OEMs and much more expensive to the owners. Who suffer parts swapper mechanics/techs who often have no clue what the root cause is
The highest viewed YouTube HOW2 for Home Depot is: "how to use a tape measure"...telling on a sector of our society
Do use facebook, but don't post there often. Find most of the info is oblique and too often down right wrong. One of the first to get a facebook account and knew not for me after one of my coordinators posted that she hadn't had a poop in over a week...nope not for me then and really still to this day...
Just keep the after market anything mounted OUT SIDE OF THE KNEE crash zone. The newer dash's all now go lower than before and notice that there are knee depressions on both sides of the steering column. In the old days, folks would slide underneath and have their knees cut and trapped. Jaws of life were needed to cut the dash apart. Even after seat belt" were made mandatory...folks didn't use them right (still to this day)....too loose and allowed them slide forward (refereed to as 'submarine'ing")
So, placing any of these after market things in those knee depressions will have your knees destroyed when slamming into them during an accident
My P3 is setup with the GM brake switch to initiate the trailer brakes BEFORE the pedal gets into the MC enough to develop any PSI. Generally before any of the OEM integrated brake controllers.
PS...all of my windgenerator brake system I designed had one key weak component. It was the PSI sensor that is same/similar to what you folks with IBC's have on your TV's. Failure mode on my systems had the whole thing go into a shut down mode. Always wonder how the OEM's treat that failure mode...heck wonder if their systems can even detect it
