I was listening to my Latino music playlist, and since I don’t pay for the music membership, they don’t play just what’s on my playlist: they add other stuff they think I’ll like. And… They added one that I’ve now been listening to probably 50 times a day while I’m working. I think I first heard it on Sunday but forgot to mention that in my post for Sunday.
Super catchy song. 😊
There are some phrases that I still don’t understand and haven’t looked up yet, but i love the song. 🙃
I’m a sucker for good love songs. 🙃
What else… So my humane mousetraps are… Working and not working. I caught two mice, one of the absolutely huge, and the other small. The small one died inside the trap. I think it might have died from fright? I don’t know. 😕
The one that survived, I took down by the Creek and let go there. It was super scared as well. So cute with those massive eyes looking at me.
I’m a sucker for little critters as well. 🙃
Wish I could keep them all and make friends with them all. 🙃
Pretty crazy day. Was I think an 18-ish hour day? 8 cars, 7 paying.
The first car was a 2012 Jeep Liberty that the heat wouldn’t work on. I also noticed while I was there that the mode door wouldn’t send the air to the feet, just to the defrost and the forward vents. After doing a good bit of digging, I figured out that the mode issue was most likely with the actual HVAC case and door itself, making it a very expensive issue. The issue with the Jeep not having any heat was caused because the heater core was clogged up. So after doing the diagnostics, I made it an appointment for a return repair visit and headed off to the next car.
The next one was a 2004 Ford expedition that needed an ignition lock cylinder. Somebody had tried to take it out previously, and they had significantly damaged the little pin that you need to push in to get it out. That made it take a heck of a lot longer than it should have because I kept second guessing myself that I was doing it incorrectly. It’s about as easy as can be. You poke a thin sturdy object through the hole, make sure it’s in the run position, and pull it out. But it wouldn’t come out, and it was because the innards were mangled from previous attempts to take it out. Anyway, I got that figured out, and she mentioned she also had an issue with the rear doors not opening on her F-150, so I made a return appointment for that truck as well to get it diagnosed and repaired.
Car number three was a 2018 Chevrolet suburban that he mentioned had blown coolant all over the place. Turned out the water pump bearing had gone out.
2018 suburban.
Really general motors?!?!?!
It’s amazing how crappy cars are nowadays. We’ve had 150 years building cars, and they seem to be getting less and less reliable by the year.
Good gravy.
Car number four was a 2014 Kia Sorento that the gentleman wanted a tune-up on, as well as rear brake light bulbs. I was late getting to that one because I accidentally poured some old dirty coolant into the reservoir for the 2018 suburban, so I had to pull the reservoir off, clean the darn thing out, put it back in, and redo all the fill procedures.
Ugh.
I was super in a hurry because I was already way late for the tune-up job. I ended up getting to the tune-up job pretty much an hour late, leaving me only an hour to change spark plugs, change engine air filter, change cabin air filter, clean the throttle body, change the oil, and replace the rear brake light bulbs. 🙃
I actually made super good time, and was able to get almost all of it done by the deadline he gave me a 4:00. Unfortunately, I wasn’t finished by 4:00, though, but he let me know that the 4:00 deadline was a soft deadline, as the business actually closed at 4:30. He had said four just to make sure that we were done in time. So I had an extra half hour to get the rest done, and I was able to get everything done and squared away for him.
The next car after that was a 2013 Chevrolet Cruze that was security locked out. I generally don’t like to go to security lockout jobs because it’s pretty much 50/50 whether I’m going to be able to get them taken care of, but he was sort of begging for help, so I went out.
The car had two different security codes. One was a b1380 code indicating a potential issue with the ignition, and the other was a b-3055 code, which almost always means you’ve got a bad key, except when you have a b1380 code.
Lovely. 🙃
The b1380 code is an electrical issue, so I started troubleshooting that because you got to figure that one out first before you move on to the 3055 code. I spent probably an hour or an hour and a half chasing down voltages and testing different components and whatnot before finally giving up because I was just too busy for a rabbit-hole job.
He knew ahead of time that I might not be able to get him taken care of, and he was very happy that I didn’t charge him anything for all of my effort.
Car number 6 was going back to the 2011 Chevy avalanche that needed the brake job completed on it and also the wiring harness for the headlight spliced with a new pigtail because the old one had melted. I got that one all taken care of at her place of work, and noticed that something was wrong that had caused the brake pad backing plate shim to get crunched a little bit. I straightened it out as best I could, showed her what had happened, though I’m not sure why it happened, and let her know that if it ever gave her any problems, I’d come back and take care of it for free.
Car number 7 was a 2002 Chevy Silverado that they thought needed an alternator, but when I got there, the oil was way over full and there were metal powder and even some shavings and glitter and whatnot in the oil.
😬
Got to remember, you can’t overfill engines with oil. Too much oil in an engine, and you oil starve the motor. You can completely ruin it.
You can get away with being a little over full, but you can’t be way over full.
Anyway, they’re going to keep on driving it basically until it blows, and so I drained the oil out enough to be a safe level, and I also figured out the parasitic draw issue, and I think the charging issue they were dealing with was because the battery cable connection was so corroded that I had to scratch do the corrosion just to be able to do my parasitic draw test. I imagine that was making it hard for the alternator to actually get the amperage back to the battery.
Anyway, after draining some oil, cleaning the battery connections and what not and explaining everything to the father on the phone and the son who was there with me, I headed to the last job, number eight.
The last job was a 2019 Chevy suburban at the Fayetteville airport. They needed a battery, so I put in the battery. Unfortunately, the quick disconnect setup that I installed in that vehicle a couple of years ago or so, wouldn’t work with the new battery. I thought with it for probably an hour trying to find some way to make it work, but I just couldn’t get it to work.
Finally, at almost 11:00 p.m., I gave up, connected the battery without the quick disconnect, and drove home from Fayetteville, getting home somewhere around midnight. I ate dinner, did a little scheduling I think, and crashed. I think it was basically an 18 hour-ish day.
😅
Love and hugs. 😊
Lift the World
~ stephen
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