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Lexus RX450h FSport rear wiper replacement

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Lexus RX 450h (2017) rear wiper, rubber insert replacement. Ordered the rubber insert online part #  852140E050 The first and the most important step is to find a way to get to the wiper in order to remove it. In its off  or resting   position its nicely tucked inside so its not possible to work on it. So turn the rear wiper switch on, then start the car by pressing the start button twice without putting your foot on the break. This will activate the wiper and and as soon as the wiper is in the position as shown above switch the car off. Now we have access to the wiper in order to remove the blade. In order to remove the blade, lift the wiper assembly a little bit and then push down near the center connector and that will snap the blade out.  Next bend the blade just enough to dislodge the wiper rubber from the grove holding it at one of the ends. Slide the rubber insert out. Then remove the two metal pieces from the sides. Slide those into the new rubber insert....

Apple MacBook Pro SSD replacement

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My daughter's dependable Apple MacBook Pro laptop would not boot and hence, I started this research. She has one of the older MacBook Pro laptop (2015 version) which we had purchased in 2016 so it definitely is a very reliable machine.  During the inital video call from her dorm she showed me that once she switches on the laptop it ends up on a flashing folder with a question mark icon and would not boot. The screen also displayed a link to Apple's support site so we tried that first in order to come up with next steps. Booting the laptop by pressing command + R (restore) option got us to the following OS X Utilities menu. As we did not have any backups, the first option was out. We didn't want to try reinstalling the OS yet, as that was our last option. The "Get Help Online" option - browsed it through but its very generic and then finally tried Disk Utility. The only disk I could see here was "disk image". As this was my first encounter with an Apple m...