{"id":10618,"date":"2013-10-17T21:56:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T02:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=10618"},"modified":"2013-10-17T21:56:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T02:56:04","slug":"this-car-hates-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=10618","title":{"rendered":"This Car Hates Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I drove <a href=\"https:\/\/westarmycircuit.com\/index.php\/electric-vehicles\"  title=\"Electric Vehicles\" target=\"_blank\">one of our electric vehicles<\/a> to Topeka the other day. When I got to about El Dorado, I got a TPS alert. The right passenger tire had low tire pressure.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/10291789776\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2887\/10291789776_db6bce4c0b.jpg\" width=\"500\" class=\"pic\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know that QT has free air so I called Brian and asked if there were any QTs between where I was and Topeka. No such luck. He did tell me that there&#8217;s free air at the Matfield Green service area, though.<\/p>\n<p>I parked the car with the tire that needs air closes to the air compressor. I don&#8217;t think I did it right at first because the tire pressure actually went down instead of up. I tried again, making sure that the hose was securely fastened to the valve. It worked that time. Except, now the car wanted air in the other front tire. Yup. That&#8217;s my luck.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/10291795576\/\"  title=\"Untitled by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3759\/10291795576_175c61477d.jpg\" width=\"500\" class=\"pic\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although I had to wrestle with the hose to get it to reach the other side of the car, I was able to inflate the other tire without any problems. And, I got to Topeka and back home safely. However, I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that the Chevy Volt hates me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drove one of our electric vehicles to Topeka the other day. When I got to about El Dorado, I got a TPS alert. The right passenger tire had low tire pressure. I know that QT has free air so I called Brian and asked if there were any QTs between where I was and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[2201,2200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10622,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618\/revisions\/10622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}