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To my car trouble. If it's truly the immobiliser, then simply take the batteries out of the remote control when it starts working again, meaning that the alarm can never get set. This would prevent the immobiliser from coming on. Ever.

So I thought tonight, after the car's worked all day (been out a number of times, dad and I have spent an age working on it - sorting out some rusty areas, putting in rear speakers, fixing the slightly leaky sunroof), let's go out for a nice drive and see what nice pictures of Loch Lomond I can find. I get to the place with the best views int he world, stop, take some pictures. Now it's cold and starting to get dark, I think I'd best start getting home.

Guess what?
Yup.
I'm stuck in the middle of nowhere, on a road that would be hell to be towed along (This road is great fun to drive - fast, twisty and slopey) with a car that's refusing to start. I could try to bump start it, but that would involve either me pushing the car uphill on my own, or taking a massive risk and pulling out onto a section of road which cars take at 50+

It wasn't going to happen. Once again I call out my own personal RAC (my dad). We push it up the hill and bump start it. We've now come to the conclusion that it isn't the immobiliser (well it couldn't be), so the starter motor it is. Or something around there. It's booked into the garage on Wednesday at 8:30am. It's under a parts only warranty, so...

*sighs*

I hate cars :)

highway's tool is an amazing thing - I never knew that one tool could do so much for me.

It's quite interesting - a shame in some ways that it only shows closed requests that you responded to, I could imagine letting it search through all the screened requests would be hell on the servers, but it would be really interesting to see some of the Priv's first attempts at answers, lol.

Actually, when I first started in support, screened answers didnae exist. So some of my earliest points are absolutely ridiculously silly - things sure have changed, eh?

Dad and I were out looking at the car today, and we'd traced the problem back from the starter motor, back through the relays, so now we knew the problem laid somewhere between (and including) the ignition switch and the anti-theft unit. To fix this, we decided to put a direct link in between the battery and starter motor - a bit of a bodge, but a workable solution.

Whilst I was looking for a way to get the steering column casing off, I found a switch, a random switch tucked away that I hadn;t noticed before. What does one do when they find a switch? Flip it of course. This had the unfortunate effect of turning the starter motor over whilst my dad was poking round the engine, but proved something. Someone else has had this problem. Someone else had this problem, and fixed it in exactly the same way we were going to.

Because the problem appears to be between the ignition switch and ATU, all that is needed is for the power to be applied to the starter motor directly when this problem flares up. And it's already there. Superb :)

Bodge-tastic, to nick a phrase from Scrapheap Challenge.
(The accidental mechanic strikes again.)

It's actually quite hard, you tend to just find people's journals, requires lots of sifting to find the sites _about_ livejournal, rather than LJ sites. Anyhow, this is done, and I found this one page that I like quite a bit. Snippets from it:

In an article written for the Village Voice called "My Modem, Myself", Julian Dibbell declares, " keep a diary the old-fashioned way and you expose your private life to no one but yourself... keep a diary online and you're exposed to Mom, Dad, potential employers, and strangers in New Zealand with strong opinions about the way last night's date should have been handled." Once a diary is made public, can it even be considered a diary?

Discuss?

Hehehe, a dig at the Haxors among us:

Many of these writers seem to have trouble with the written form of just one language, with multiple spelling and grammar errors present in their entries