Day Off, Dead Car.

[azurelunatic]

Clover's husband the professional mechanic assures us that from the symptoms, the car's engine turning over and then dying a second or two later, is due to some mangling from the auto body place putting the ignition/security in/back in, and is the security setting that prevents someone from driving it with the wrong key going utterly caramelnutcluster paranoid and not letting anyone drive it, because it doesn't think it's the right key.

So my plans for grocery shopping are foiled. We'll walk to the closer grocery store shortly.

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[popefelix.livejournal.com]

Well at least it's someone else's fault, which means they will have to pay for it. At least that's what one might hope.

[azurelunatic]

Well, now it looks like it's something else -- the key went wacked, and either has to be reprogrammed or replaced. The other key works fine.

[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

my car does that on occasion, but this little light saying "security" comes on so I know that's the problem. You have to leave the key (in my car anyway) and go away for like 15 minutes for it to reset/reprogram itself with the key code.

What gets me is the friggin keys are like $100, and they will tell you that you can't get ordinary keys, but when the car was repossessed because fuckwit didn't make the payments they used a regular cut key to take the car. (I still don't know how the fuck they do that.) That was one expensive spare key though, $1500 total by the time it was all said and done. Hence why I put my SS into a seperate account, if he doesn't pay it, I don't transfer my SS over to our joint account. Suddenly, the car payment gets done. **screams** **kicks him repeatedly**

They also had to move his car, somehow de activating the alarm and stuff to get to my car. I realize this is thier profession, but damn, how do they do this, and I wonder how many of them are car thieves on the side? What really pissed me was we didn't even get a mail notice until a week later, just got up and the car wasn't there...it was the police who infomred us it was repossessed. It was only one month behind, even the woman at the credit union said she didn't know why it got turned it for repo.

I miss cars without all the computer crap in them...my first car might have been a rolling auto lesson, but damn it, I could fix myself without the need for a $100 computer diagnostic.

What kind of car you guys have again?

[azurelunatic]

This one's a Neon.

And thank you for the tip -- it turns out that it was marxdarx's key that went psycho, and the car's OK. Her key works just fine. You saved us bunches of money and time. Thank you so very much.

[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

no problem. glad I could help!!! Neons are cute little cars. I've got an alero, I love my car except for the stupid computer!!