monkeyswrench
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Take one kid to school, come home. Before I go inside, be a nice guy and scrape the ice off daughter's windows. As I walk by the POS, I see the dash and screen are powered up...key is in my pocket, I know I shut it off. Get in it, shut it down, and restart it. All presets are gone, clock and trip reset...WTF? Was cold, but only mid 30s...been colder recently. Drove the rest of the day no problem.
Now, flash forward to 5:30 last night. Wife calls, car won't start(2004 Avalanche). She tried jumping it, no dice. I get there thinking battery terminals or something. As I'm checking things, she tells me in the morning it ran "sluggish", but cleaned up and worked fine. I asked why she didn't call me, I could have looked at it in daylight...and been warmer. She had a good excuse, another teacher had a major tragedy, threw wife off pretty good.
Jumped the starter, it spins, fuses good and relay checked. No signal from pcm. Pulled codes, and has a bunch of trans codes, and a bcm code. I think it started by luck, but lost a ground. It had no check engine lights while driving in the morning, but does now, and obviously won't start. Had it towed home, get to mess with that later. No way to bring it inside, and supposed to snow Sunday. Have to fix it, she drove the Excursion this morning, so at least there was a spare.
Never had 2 cars act up on the same day. Dry conditions, nothing abnormal. EMP and solar flares are top of the list, but may also be Russian hacking, or possibly aliens. It could also be they're old cars, but not old enough to be simple!
Now, flash forward to 5:30 last night. Wife calls, car won't start(2004 Avalanche). She tried jumping it, no dice. I get there thinking battery terminals or something. As I'm checking things, she tells me in the morning it ran "sluggish", but cleaned up and worked fine. I asked why she didn't call me, I could have looked at it in daylight...and been warmer. She had a good excuse, another teacher had a major tragedy, threw wife off pretty good.
Jumped the starter, it spins, fuses good and relay checked. No signal from pcm. Pulled codes, and has a bunch of trans codes, and a bcm code. I think it started by luck, but lost a ground. It had no check engine lights while driving in the morning, but does now, and obviously won't start. Had it towed home, get to mess with that later. No way to bring it inside, and supposed to snow Sunday. Have to fix it, she drove the Excursion this morning, so at least there was a spare.
Never had 2 cars act up on the same day. Dry conditions, nothing abnormal. EMP and solar flares are top of the list, but may also be Russian hacking, or possibly aliens. It could also be they're old cars, but not old enough to be simple!
