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IRL Resident Evil Puzzle
12 months ago
I just felt like sharing this cos in hindsight it was funny (though I was NOT laughing at the time).
Other day I had to get one of our old trucks running--it had a bad throttle body sensor, allegedly. I got the part, but I needed the tools to take it off; lo and behold, the tools were in the back of another car of ours with a bad transmission. I go to get it and oops, the whole thing is dead, battery included and the hatch on the back didn't have a key slot, so I couldn't even manually open it.
Time to go get the THIRD truck, my F-150, to jump the battery off so I can open the hatch to get the tool--oh whoops, the Trailblazer's battery is a side terminal, so I had to go buy converter terminals so I could actually hook up the jumper cables from my truck to it, so I can get to the back to access the tools to take off the fucking throttle position sensor of another truck.
Ho. Ly. Shit. Literally solved a Resident Evil puzzle just to get a truck to run.
That said the throttle sensor appears to be good after the relearn procedure--it accelerates to over 70mph without going into limp mode so hurray.
Other day I had to get one of our old trucks running--it had a bad throttle body sensor, allegedly. I got the part, but I needed the tools to take it off; lo and behold, the tools were in the back of another car of ours with a bad transmission. I go to get it and oops, the whole thing is dead, battery included and the hatch on the back didn't have a key slot, so I couldn't even manually open it.
Time to go get the THIRD truck, my F-150, to jump the battery off so I can open the hatch to get the tool--oh whoops, the Trailblazer's battery is a side terminal, so I had to go buy converter terminals so I could actually hook up the jumper cables from my truck to it, so I can get to the back to access the tools to take off the fucking throttle position sensor of another truck.
Ho. Ly. Shit. Literally solved a Resident Evil puzzle just to get a truck to run.
That said the throttle sensor appears to be good after the relearn procedure--it accelerates to over 70mph without going into limp mode so hurray.
Keep the list, for a while. Sometimes, when you always have so much to get done, it helps to see just how much you accomplish
maybe yeah, still tho it's just silly all this
god, so true
shocked i've come this far
If I ever need to fix something, and it takes more than 3-4 steps just to do it, it'll be like a puzzle to me, just without the QTE's lol.
such a bizarre fuckin way to recalibrate the computer in a car, jesus fucking christmas who came up with this shit, Spencer?
This reeks of Spencer levels of complexity.
Also just reminded me that I kek'd at my neighbours car having gone into local maintenance for like 2 fuckin weeks, because it was a hybrid, vs 3 days my stepdad got for his average petrol based van.
I swear hybrid cars are designed by ppl who think "should I overcomplicate this?", and have also never once played a Resi game to find the irony in their choices.
Also, forgot from the last journal, *shakes fist* STOP TRYIN TO AN HERO!
https://i.imgur.com/ZKvFVhg.gif
glad the car got fixed up though, i'm dreading having to do work on mine soon ;-;
Objective A: Fix headlights
Optional objective: Scare the crap out of people cause my headlights die going 70 mph on a 2 way street around a blind turn people cut.
i know it's so much easier said than done--but yeah a relay? headlight switch maybe? not a horrible fix
Heres to hoping, if not i will be sadge ;-;
Cashier: https://youtu.be/T9l_XYNYczI?t=29
AND ALL I HAVE IS THIS KEY WITH A SPADE ON IT
replacing the fuel pump however? gas in my MOUTH? different story
probably my least favorite part of the day, seeing another day ahead of me. >_>
glad i don't have a car... if i had to deal with car troubles on top of everything else, i'd probably just burn everything down.
Theme them on different bust sizes to stay on brand.