Misnomer… No “chips” are replaced. The car was “tuned” which means the engine calibration files have been altered. Replaceable chips, or E-Prom stopped decades ago.
The “chips” being sold these days plug into the OBD2 port and achieve nothing but drain your bank account.
I refueled Saturday, not only do I not know the price difference between grades I don’t even know what the price was of the regular fuel I got. I can’t control it and I have to have it so I worry about other things.
I only looked, because of this thread. Currently prices are nearly the same, adjusted for inflation, as when I started driving in the 60s.
I only know the pricing if I check via the GasBuddy app. In general, I know which stations are the higher priced ones, and which are the lowest-priced ones, but–like you–I don’t really look at the price per gallon when I gas-up.
If I need it, I need it.
Yes I know but everyone I hang with still say rechipped. You know the sports anchor famous for saying let’s roll the tape. No tape in a tv studio these days. And I still say I dial a phone too!
For what? I remember people filling up their turbines with kerosene because it was cheaper - 60 years ago.
Garage heater
Hope you have a carbon monoxide monitor.
And an open garage door when the propane heater is in use.
It all depends on the type of heater you have, I am running a vent free natural gas Infrared Wall Heater in my basement…
Now in the garage I am running a vented one in the garage for when the doors are opened to move cars in/out…
I plan on installing one or the other in the upstairs garage for next winter…
No problem for over 40 years but I’ll report back if I’m overcome.
Story: I have smoke detectors as well as the combo co directors on each floor. We were in Ohio 800 miles away and my neighbor called saying my alarm was sounding. His son is with the fire department so he came over too. He was so concerned about co that they didn’t want us coming home without checking. I promised we would be careful and just shut the dang detectors off. Out if 7 of them it is hard to know which one caused the alarm.
At any rate I stopped in Chicago and paid $85 for a plug in detector. It read zero. Next day I just bought all new ones. Since then every year I change batteries even though they are hard wired and also blow them out with compressed air. Every five years I just replace them all. The co plug in detector continues to read zero. My furnace is serviced every year.
So I am safe, no problem. I refuse to work in the garage all bundled up though like I used to do, it is Minnesota even though most of the time we are just a little colder than San Diego where nothing is allowed.
No you won’t. I was getting sleepier and sleepier. I finally suspected my gas range, opened the windows, turned on the fans, took a long walk, decommisioned the range, took it to the scrapyard - but not before buying a monitor and confirming the CO levels. Had I waited another day…
But not in the garage.
