Some Good News Finally

My daughters car finally passed it's emissions test.<br /><br />What a colossal pain in the ass that thing has been.<br /><br />First it was the front oxygen sensor.<br />Then it was the downstream oxygen sensor behind the catalytic converter.<br /><br />Then the check engine light came on again and this time it said the catalytic converter wasn't operating "efficiently" enough.<br /><br />That one really pissed me off.<br /><br />Of course when I was dicking around with the fucking thing it was dark and raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock.<br /><br />I took the little fucker out and hot rodded the shit out of it trying to make sure the converter got hot enough to "light off".<br /><br />They have to get to a certain temperature and then they get so hot they actually do light off inside and start burning any deposits and such inside.<br /><br />I have seen cars driving at night with plugged up converters that look like they have neon lights on underneath they get so hot.<br /><br />I didn't really want to go fast, like I said, it was pouring rain, but I did want to work that engine hard.<br /><br />There is a really long and really steep hill nearby.<br /><br />The trick is that it is usually a very busy road with lots of accompanying police watching for future revenue sources.<br /><br /><br />I had my scanner hooked up to it and waited until the coast was clear, came to a dead stop in the road at the bottom of the hill, put the fucker in low gear and slammed the hammer down.<br /><br />It's a racy little fucker, I'll give it that.<br /><br />Even though I had it locked into manual low, at about forty miles an hour and a gazillion RPM's, the fucker upshifted into second gear just before I quite crested the top.<br /><br />The front tires actually broke loose and the whore slut bitch got all kinds of squirrelly.<br /><br />It's a good thing no one was nearby.<br /><br />After I thrashed on the sonofabitch a few more times I brought it home and checked for codes again.<br /><br />This time it had a code pending, the light wasn't on yet, for the evaporative solenoid circuit.<br /><br />I'm on to this horseshit right here.<br /><br />I don't know how many people have had this happen to them but some clever bastard who designed the electronic codes put this in there as a gift to the automotive repair industry.<br /><br />This particular code can mean two very different things.<br /><br />One, the solenoid to the carbon cannister is bad or two, the much more common culprit.<br /><br />The fucking gas cap isn't tight.<br /><br />How many people have had to pay a dealer a hundred bucks because the check engine light is on and they don't have a clue, they panic, go to a dealer, the mechanic scans for codes, sees this one and opens the little door and tightens the gas cap.<br /><br />So after I tightened that up, I went on another thrash run.<br /><br />No light, no codes.<br />I tell her to take it to get tested BUT, if that fucking light comes on, call me.<br /><br />The place ain't open on Monday so last night, bigger than shit, I get a text message.<br /><br />The light is on again.<br /><br />Bring it over today.<br /><br />Again with the code for the evap solenoid.<br /><br />I asked her if she stopped and got gas.<br />Yes.<br /><br />Tighten the cap, erase the code, kiss her on the head and send her on her way.<br /><br />Twenty minutes later, I get another text.<br /><br />It passed.<br /><br />Fuck you, ya miserable fucking bastards.<br /><br /><i><b>I WIN!!</b></i><br /><br />She will be getting a new gas cap shortly but I can cross that miserable sonofabitch off my list.<br /><br />Finally.<br />

Some Good News Finally

My daughters car finally passed it's emissions test. What a colossal pain in the ass that thing has been. First it was the front oxygen ...

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