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TylerH860 · #1 10-19-2011, 01:51 AM

2 posts in 3 months. I'm on a roll.

Wheeler Dealers

"My first stop after the auction was to a friend’s shop to borrow his code scanner to see what massive issue plagued the car enough to trigger the light. The nice thing about modern cars is the simplicity of getting trouble codes, though its not always easy to find what is causing the code. Plug it in, input model information, press go, and like a woman that’s hitting PMS, everything that’s bothering her comes out in a coded burst that you must carefully and methodically approach. In this instance I got code PO455: evaporative emission leak detected. Sounds like something that would have been said during the nuclear crisis following the Japanese earthquake, but a quick google searched revealed it meant the fuel tank wasn’t venting properly. The first thing to check is the gas cap, and sure enough that was the issue. $15 later I had a mechanically sound as a pound proper luxury car for less than most people put as a down-payment towards a new econobox. This leads me to a few short days later about 2000 miles away from doo-da ville. "

t walgamuth · #2 10-19-2011, 05:59 AM

This leads me to a few short days later about 2000 miles away from doo-da ville.

If I read the blog will this be explained?

SwampYankee · #3 10-19-2011, 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

This leads me to a few short days later about 2000 miles away from doo-da ville.

If I read the blog will this be explained?

Yup. And this, too.

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...and like a woman that’s hitting PMS...

TylerH860 · #4 10-19-2011, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by t walgamuth

This leads me to a few short days later about 2000 miles away from doo-da ville.

If I read the blog will this be explained?

Not really an easy transitional sentence to understand taken out of context without the introductory paragraph. A few days after getting the E420 and doing all this check engine stuff I left San Diego and flew to California. My rental was a Chevy Aveo... the horror!

t walgamuth · #5 10-19-2011, 01:25 PM

Because an astro is aproximately equal to doo doo?

Solid Snake · #6 10-19-2011, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by TylerH860

2 posts in 3 months. I'm on a roll.

Wheeler Dealers

You really got that impression from OnStar? I used it for the first time this summer while driving my Grandmother's Cadillac SRX, and having never driven out there before, I found it a pleasure to just be able to call them up and make them do all the navigation for me. Granted, you can do that yourself, but may as well get your money's worth.

TylerH860 · #7 10-19-2011, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Solid Snake

You really got that impression from OnStar? I used it for the first time this summer while driving my Grandmother's Cadillac SRX, and having never driven out there before, I found it a pleasure to just be able to call them up and make them do all the navigation for me. Granted, you can do that yourself, but may as well get your money's worth.

Yes, if you're a geriatric OnStar is a great tool for you. No gadgetry and one push of a button gives you a real person who can do anything for you. Unlocking your car is about the only thing that I would have use for. Is that worth $30 a month to me for perhaps the once out of 10 years that I may make this mistake? No. Car thieves can easily disable the system in a number of ways, which happened to a person I know with a Cadillac SRX. Crash assist is nice, but still not worth $30 a month. Everything else offered is replaceable with a cell phone and cheap accessories.