Car problem
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- _niko0
A vacationing penguin is driving his car through Arizona when he notices that the oil pressure light is on. He gets out to look and sees oil dripping out of the motor. He drives to the nearest town and stops at the first gas station.
After dropping the car off, the penguin goes for a walk around town. He sees an ice-cream shop and, being a penguin in Arizona, decides that something cold would really hit the spot. He gets a big dish of ice cream and sits down to eat. Having no hands he makes a real mess trying to eat with his flippers. After finishing his ice cream, he goes back to the gas station and asks the mechanic if he's found the problem. The mechanic looks up and says "It looks like you blew a seal."
"No no," the penguin replies, "it's just ice cream."
- i_monk0
Instead of driving the car, you're letting the car drive you! That's the problem!
- GM2780
Well, now that you need a new battery (or at least a jump) there's no turning back now. My advice is to strip the whole car and turn it into something like this:
- fooler0
first problem is that you bought a Yaris
- freedom0
A battery is good for 3-5 years, so that is most likely the case.
Usually a dying battery will give you signs before it goes and the radio might still work if the car won't start.
Get someone with jumper cables to jump your car and it will give you 2-5 starts, enough to go to work then to a car parts store.
A new battery is only around $150.
- formed0
Yaris had some cool, slightly evil ad campaign if I recall correctly.
It's the battery. Call AAA if you can't get a friend, neighbor or nice stranger to help. Run it for a long time, drive a lot to charge it back up. If it happens again then something is draining it (radio, lights left on, my radar detector used to suck mine out if I didn't drive for more than a few days)
- organicgrid0
Have someone push you, you'll get better gas mileage and get there quicker.
- Akagiyama0
Yeah just sounds like a dead battery, and a roof lamp can easily drain your car in 3 days.
Either that or you are low on brake light fluid.
- pango0
Ewwww Yaris
- i'm not a car dude, i dont really care about car at all. really.benfal99
- You guys need to duke it outpinkfloyd
- You're both in Canada right?pinkfloyd
- Exchange numbers and setup a timepinkfloyd
- duke it out?
what does it mean in french? :Dbenfal99 - i don't do sword fight....pango
- kung fu?benfal99
- its practically in my blood!pango
- :Dbenfal99
- west vs east!ETM
- pinkfloyd0
Did you leave the radio on without the car running? A running car replenishes the battery.
- ideaist0
The battery is dead, or fried.
If dead you can be boosted (using cables or a booster).
If fried the above will result in failure so deep that you won't be able to get out of bed for 12 hours.
I'm going through a similar test. Old subwoofer draining battery.
- benfal990
Sounds like a sick day at work tomorrow :)
"yeeeah, hi boss, i have a problem with my car... yeeeeahh, its gonna be very complicated for me to go to work today... yeeeaah. see you friday"
*reality - call Joe's Mechanic, get boosted, back in the house 20min later and play video games for the rest of the day*