Comments on: #oneaday, Day 11: Aim Lower

By: Pete Davison

Pete Davison — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:33:33 +0000

In reply to acronkyoung. We do have auto part stores, but the nearest ones are quite a ways away. Plus they normally charge extortionate prices for even checking things like that, fuckers. I don't think it's anything serious this time, just the winter blues.

By: acronkyoung

acronkyoung — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 04:32:38 +0000

Don't you have auto part stores that have those little machines that can tell you what "the fuck" is when that light comes on? Mine periodically comes on because my temperature sensor something or other is broken. It would only cost like $8 to replace but by the time I'm ready to go replace it the light always turns off. I don't want to go to the auto part store and say, "I, uh, need a temperature sensor...thing, something. Just come outside and I'll point at it." but without the light on I can't just make them use their machine and get me the part themselves, so I just forget about it.

By: Matt Warren

Matt Warren — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:11:44 +0000

More of the one post per day stuff for 2011, eh? You are a machine. Anyway, I sympathize with the adjusted expectations. As I grow older, my realism (okay, crushed dreams) kicks in more and more. We don't all get to be astronauts, but I figured maybe rockstar, right? Also, I sympathize with the car stuff. We don't have the all purpose light you reference in your post. Instead, we wake up each winter morning to find that our car has become an ice-casket. We have to take a gallon of hot water outside and pour it into the lock and along the door-end. The seals have completely broken and all I can say is, where is our new car? Oh, that's right. Money. Gah. Keep 'em coming, sir. @docbadwrench

By: CarryMcCar

CarryMcCar — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:46:42 +0000

I once had a similar problem to your WTFN light. It was an oversensitive air filter that was worried about the exact ratio of the air/fuel mix. I was informed that the light remains on for a certain number of engine cycles, and that if it bothered me then I should simply turn the engine off and on a few times.

If your car starts stalling then I would advise that you get it checked, as the dodgy air/fuel mix COULD result in the car entering limp home mode, which feels like you are driving through thick sludge at a maximum of 15 miles per hour. This happened to me once, resulting in a long wait for an AA man in a pub car park.

Yours,
Gavin Turtletrousers