The joys of car repair.....
Dec. 9th, 2005 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ash_blackwellFor those of you who were not part of the panicked "Help, the battery's dead!" and subsequent failed attempt at jumping, The van just decided "I have no juice. I'm not going to start. Period." ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hamner was kind enough to come out from clear across town to try to jump her, but to no avail.
Todaynicodeamos gave me a list of things to try before he and domnall came over tommorow at an ungodly hour to try to fix her. One of them was clean the connectors. Which I probably still need to do....but when I was trying to tug off the black connector, having foolishly left my wench set in the house, the light under the hood came back on. Sure enough, she started right up. New battery cables are a /hell/ of a lot cheaper than some of the problems I was seeing and might be something that nicodeamos and I can install on our own verus taking the car to Arrows. And this looks to be a hairline break that only disconnects when the cable is at the wrong angle.... Meaning I can get to work tonight on my own.... YAY....
hamner was kind enough to come out from clear across town to try to jump her, but to no avail.Today
nicodeamos gave me a list of things to try before he and domnall came over tommorow at an ungodly hour to try to fix her. One of them was clean the connectors. Which I probably still need to do....but when I was trying to tug off the black connector, having foolishly left my wench set in the house, the light under the hood came back on. Sure enough, she started right up. New battery cables are a /hell/ of a lot cheaper than some of the problems I was seeing and might be something that nicodeamos and I can install on our own verus taking the car to Arrows. And this looks to be a hairline break that only disconnects when the cable is at the wrong angle.... Meaning I can get to work tonight on my own.... YAY....
