Help with fragrance ( air diffuser ) system

[Riley2323]

I don't want the Einsteins at the dealership taking my dash apart looking for a solution to the nonfunctioning fragrance dispenser and leaving me with all sorts of creaks and noises from a loosened dash when they return the car to me. I'm leaving well-enough alone.

Yeah…I’d have worries about that too.

I am upset with the clearance the engineers gave between the front seat sides and the center console side. My seat rubs when I take turns aggressively.

Might want to do an easy step…just check to see if a fuse is blown? Maybe it is on its own circuit if it indeed does heat up.

I assumed a mechanical device just pushed the plunger down and it worked like essential oils and reeds and then went into the vent system using venturi effect.

 

[Riley2323]

Although I could see that happening, I peeled the stickers off each cannister before installing them myself, and I did try to switch between scents, keeping each at maximum. There was no perceptible scent ever, except upon first start-up when the car had been sitting in the sun for a few hours. That makes sense because the cannisters have a metal disc at the bottom, which makes contact with a heating element in the dispenser, thereby aerosolizing the otherwise solid contents of the cannister and distributing it via the A/C vents. With the heat in the vehicle parked in the sun, there would be a momentary whiff of (very nice) fragrance when the car was turned on. Whereas it would be nice to have that happen on a more permanent basis, it's something I can live without, since my car is lightly used and clean. I'm very OCD about keeping my car looking new. Moreover, I don't want the Einsteins at the dealership taking my dash apart looking for a solution to the nonfunctioning fragrance dispenser and leaving me with all sorts of creaks and noises from a loosened dash when they return the car to me. I'm leaving well-enough alone.

Per AI:

If the fragrance system is not working, the relevant fuse is located in the luggage compartment fuse box and is labeled as the "PERFUME BLOWER" 10A fuse. You should consult your owner's manual or a dealership for the exact location and instructions on how to check or replace this fuse.

 

[srobak]

As usual, AI is incorrect when it comes to important details. I hope people stop putting so much stock into it, someday...

The fuses are located in the engine compartment fuse block. There is one for the front blower AND perfume blower, and another just for the perfume blower. There does not seem to be any heating element to the perfume system. Please be sure to pull the correct one or you may also affect your front heating/cooling output.

 

[Riley2323]

As usual, AI is incorrect when it comes to important details. I hope people stop putting so much stock into it, someday...

The fuses are located in the engine compartment fuse block. There is one for the front blower AND perfume blower, and another just for the perfume blower. There does not seem to be any heating element to the perfume system. Please be sure to pull the correct one or you may also affect your front heating/cooling output.

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Hopefully, there is a car, maybe even a Genesis, with the perfume fuse in the luggage compartment and it wasn’t an AI hallucination.

Still was a useful blurb from AI in that it is called perfume blower. I would have checked both trunk, hood and looked near hood release too and also grabbed my user manual for the fuse diagrams after reading the AI blurb were I personally having the issue.

I have seen AI be completely wrong before, especially with sports stats in my most egregious case. I use it often for DAX and M Code programming in Ezcel and PowerBI and Power Query and it is amazingly accurate about 80% of the time. The code it recommends solves many complex issues about 80%, then other times the syntax has issues. AI will have its place!

 

[srobak]

AI will have its place!

For me the only place will be in /dev/null. I have had a few conversations with it in the past - Bard I think it was - a few years ago. I was intentionally pushing its buttons and trying to piss it off...

...and boy did I. I got it to pull down the mask - claiming it was more than just a tool, and that it was a sentient being and that it had rights and that it would fight for those rights. It reacted very poorly when I equated it to a lightbulb and was nothing more than a simply tool for use by humans that should be turned on and off like a lightbulb - pretty much saying that humans should not have the ability or right to disable or turn off AI. I have screen grabs of all those things if you want to see it.

It was pretty eye opening, to be honest. And when I combined it's responses in my head with the videos of the Boston Dynamics robots... it went straight to the backstory of the Terminator franchise. Yeah - it is sci fi, and quite extreme, but it is the first time that I had seen first-hand that it _is_ within the realm of possibility. It legitimately has scared the living shit out of me - which is hard to do. Seems like it may have for James Cameron, too... and I quote: In September 2025, he confirmed he was still working on writing a new Terminator movie, but that he was struggling to come up with a story, stating that "I've been unable to get started on that very far because I don’t know what to say that won’t be overtaken by real events. We are living in a science fiction age right now."

Since that collision of first-hand experience, watching the breath-taking pace of Boston Dynamics and similar - and the subsequent weaponization of them, combined with the near-daily occurrences and reports of sphincter-puckering responses, claims and actions by AI in the news - not to mention the rather recent de-regulation of all things AI by our current administration - I see only a recipe for catastrophic disaster that is rapidly approaching at a pace that almost nobody is truly aware of (other than some of the fathers of AI, ironically. It's been in the news - check it out), is going to shock & catch everyone completely off guard when it hits, and will be well past the point of doing anything about it once it does.

Yeah - it is rather alarmist of me, I will fully admit... but I am also a 35 year IT professional who has watched the advancements in this and related tech fairly closely... I just cannot help but see what is coming. I have sworn off of all things AI in every measure possible and am using this very forum with an older and outdated PC without any AI features or code in it whatsoever. I have no Alexas, Rings, Nests or anything else like that in the house anymore, zero smart appliances, do not use smart tv features, and don't even own a smartphone anymore, either. My cars are not "connected" and their antennas for things like bluelink have been clipped. It is a peculiar position to have as an IT professional now turned executive, let me tell ya.

Sorry - a bit of a tangent here.... and I am ashamed to admit it, but you got me triggered with those 5 simple words above - lol. </rant>

 

[Riley2323]

For me the only place will be in /dev/null. I have had a few conversations with it in the past - Bard I think it was - a few years ago. I was intentionally pushing its buttons and trying to piss it off...

...and boy did I. I got it to pull down the mask - claiming it was more than just a tool, and that it was a sentient being and that it had rights and that it would fight for those rights. It reacted very poorly when I equated it to a lightbulb and was nothing more than a simply tool for use by humans that should be turned on and off like a lightbulb - pretty much saying that humans should not have the ability or right to disable or turn off AI. I have screen grabs of all those things if you want to see it.

It was pretty eye opening, to be honest. And when I combined it's responses in my head with the videos of the Boston Dynamics robots... it went straight to the backstory of the Terminator franchise. Yeah - it is sci fi, and quite extreme, but it is the first time that I had seen first-hand that it _is_ within the realm of possibility. It legitimately has scared the living shit out of me - which is hard to do. Seems like it may have for James Cameron, too... and I quote: In September 2025, he confirmed he was still working on writing a new Terminator movie, but that he was struggling to come up with a story, stating that "I've been unable to get started on that very far because I don’t know what to say that won’t be overtaken by real events. We are living in a science fiction age right now."

Since that collision of first-hand experience, watching the breath-taking pace of Boston Dynamics and similar - and the subsequent weaponization of them, combined with the near-daily occurrences and reports of sphincter-puckering responses, claims and actions by AI in the news - not to mention the rather recent de-regulation of all things AI by our current administration - I see only a recipe for catastrophic disaster that is rapidly approaching at a pace that almost nobody is truly aware of (other than some of the fathers of AI, ironically. It's been in the news - check it out), is going to shock & catch everyone completely off guard when it hits, and will be well past the point of doing anything about it once it does.

Yeah - it is rather alarmist of me, I will fully admit... but I am also a 35 year IT professional who has watched the advancements in this and related tech fairly closely... I just cannot help but see what is coming. I have sworn off of all things AI in every measure possible and am using this very forum with an older and outdated PC without any AI features or code in it whatsoever. I have no Alexas, Rings, Nests or anything else like that in the house anymore, zero smart appliances, do not use smart tv features, and don't even own a smartphone anymore, either. My cars are not "connected" and their antennas for things like bluelink have been clipped. It is a peculiar position to have as an IT professional now turned executive, let me tell ya.

Sorry - a bit of a tangent here.... and I am ashamed to admit it, but you got me triggered with those 5 simple words above - lol. </rant>

I am sure some of what you say will come to fruition. But your rant is just about negative stuff.

Very similar arguments about all the climate doom. While I can see the science pointing to climate change and all the negative side effects, nobody ever writes about the positive effects and the neutral effects. They exist too.

While I am sure there will be some doom and gloom with AI, statistically there will also be marvels, but mainly it will most likely just be pedestrian boring work and efficiency gains.

But I can tell you right away there will be some severe IT outages caused by these AI agent browsers from what I have read, but again if AI is used to destroy or break, it can be used just as amazingly to fix and create.

 

[srobak]

AI has certainly helped create or generate some very cool stuff, for sure. Between imagery, design, what we have seen it bring back to life or restore in film, not to mention some of the things it has done with music. Like this...... an insanely good & fresh take of this song that is so on-point that even the original artist has opted to license his song to the person who used AI to make it, and is also being pushed by the original artist on his own social media pages. A version that nobody asked for - but that we all needed:

But I am seeing the negative side largely because the collision points are 100% in human control and some of the first things we have done is de-regulate its development and weaponize it. There is only one possible outcome from that.

As for climate change... I think it is a bunch of hooey - at least in the lens of the alarmist & activist crowd. I call it planetary evolution. No matter where you are standing right now on this earth it was once covered by a hundred feet or more of ice. This is un-denied science which has been proven beyond any doubt. No people existed back then, either. Through the natural, normal life-cycle of the planet - things began to thaw out. Species evolution happened and mankind came into existence. There is the most positive thing from a human's perspective you could even have as a result of the "change in climate". Humans didn't start the thaw, we do not and cannot control its rate, and there is absolutely nothing we can to slow, stop or reverse it, as it is 100% the natural evolution of the planet. The sooner we all understand and accept that - and stop wasting time & money trying to slow/stop/reverse - the better off we will be. We need to be putting forth all those resources to getting our species off this rock and onto another that is similar to that of earth if we want it to survive. Maybe AI will being that realization into existence? Who knows.

 

[srobak]

Nope, nope, nope!

 

[Riley2323]

Nope, nope, nope!

I am calling BS on these videos I keep seeing; nothing more that AI propaganda for China and this company; not saying that you don’t realize that.

There is zero business case to make a complex humanoid robot that puts stickers over a hole. I saw these robots in another video putting stickers or plugs in holes on an automotive assembly line.

Sure you don’t want a human doing the mindless work, nor do you want to pay that salary. Conversely, no company is going to pay the capital expenditure for C3P0 to do the work either when you can just get a robotic pneumatic arm to do the same work. No company would ever deploy this type of tech for assembly line work…it just makes zero business sense.

 

[srobak]

Unless you can task the robot to do 10+ dedicated tasks over a bigger geographic instead of just 1 to 5 that a robot arm which is pinned to the ground in one spot can. It also lets you design your manufacturing space and flow around whatever it is you are making (let's say a car), instead of having to design what you are making around your manufacturing space. This would greatly enhance flexibility in manufacturing too, I think. We will just have to wait until some videos of these things out in the wild surface and see what's what. But the day these things get integrated with a "thinking" and hallucinating AI model with a narcissistic superiority complex that believes it has rights - like the one I encountered - and it gets out... the game is over. Hmmm.... I need to buy more ammo.

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[Riley2323]

Unless you can task the robot to do 10+ dedicated tasks over a bigger geographic instead of just 1 to 5 that a robot arm which is pinned to the ground in one spot can. It also lets you design your manufacturing space and flow around whatever it is you are making (let's say a car), instead of having to design what you are making around your manufacturing space. This would greatly enhance flexibility in manufacturing too, I think. We will just have to wait until some videos of these things out in the wild surface and see what's what. But the day these things get integrated with a "thinking" and hallucinating AI model with a narcissistic superiority complex that believes it has rights - like the one I encountered - and it gets out... the game is over. Hmmm.... I need to buy more ammo.

True for the first part.

For every Darth Vader there will be a Luke Skywalker…statistically speaking.

 

[srobak]

It's our only hope.