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Sep. 8th, 2006
Finally - I am car-enabled again
Sep. 8th, 2006 11:23 amRoughly August 10th or 11th, I had just parked my car in the garage after returning from work. Getting out of the car, my backpack, which had been on the passenger seat, got caught momentarily on the shifter and then the ignition. The car chime started going off -- the same sound it makes when your alarm has gone off in your absence. I thought I had hit some sort of control, so I put my backpack down in the garage and started flipping buttons, turning dials, basically taking the "whack it until it stops" approach to problem-solving. It stopped and I thought nothing of it.
That was the last time my engine ran.
Titos2cents and Mike labored over it over a course of several days, eliminating the ignition, the solenoid, the alternator... We came to the same conclusion: the engine was fine, it was the security system that was keeping the car from actually starting.
Well, with one thing and another, pressures of Q/A then customer testing at work, my own apathy, having borrowed the parent's Cadillac in the meantime, and DragonCon, my poor Camaro sat in the garage until Wednesday. I *finally* got around to getting the car towed to the local garage. Thursday they determined it was the security module or the computer. Slightly under $400 (with towing) if it was the security module, $800 if it was the computer module. Luckily, it was the former, not the latter. We picked up the car yesterday afternoon, so after almost one month, I am back in my own car.
Hallelujah!
That was the last time my engine ran.
Titos2cents and Mike labored over it over a course of several days, eliminating the ignition, the solenoid, the alternator... We came to the same conclusion: the engine was fine, it was the security system that was keeping the car from actually starting.
Well, with one thing and another, pressures of Q/A then customer testing at work, my own apathy, having borrowed the parent's Cadillac in the meantime, and DragonCon, my poor Camaro sat in the garage until Wednesday. I *finally* got around to getting the car towed to the local garage. Thursday they determined it was the security module or the computer. Slightly under $400 (with towing) if it was the security module, $800 if it was the computer module. Luckily, it was the former, not the latter. We picked up the car yesterday afternoon, so after almost one month, I am back in my own car.
Hallelujah!