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Guess the car problem!
Back when I was in highschool, I drove a lemon. It was an Oldsmobile Omega, which had had many, many problems from the start. To the extent that they ended up rebuilding the engine before it got out of warranty. Of the many things on it - I learned to replace fuses on the thing, and also how to determine what of a certain set of things was currently going wrong by which smell was coming out of the AC vents - the most intriguing was the next-to-last thing that went wrong. The last thing that went wrong was the frame breaking, the same week we got this mysterious thing fixed, after which we sold it and got me a Honda CRX, because Dad swore never to buy anything other than Japanese again.
At any rate, after talking about it on another LJ today, I figured I'd throw the symptoms up here and see if any of you can guess anywhere near what the actual problem was. :D
Symptom: When I accelerated from a red light or a stop sign, the windshield wipers would wipe once.
Have at it! I'll post the solution ... eventually. :) (If you read about it on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pzb's LJ, don't give it away. :D)
At any rate, after talking about it on another LJ today, I figured I'd throw the symptoms up here and see if any of you can guess anywhere near what the actual problem was. :D
Symptom: When I accelerated from a red light or a stop sign, the windshield wipers would wipe once.
Have at it! I'll post the solution ... eventually. :) (If you read about it on
pzb's LJ, don't give it away. :D)
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(I had one once where, after being in the shop, the car stalled out. When I got it running again, it would only go in reverse. ^^;)
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I dunno...no moving bits on the engine are really exposed enough unless the wires for the wiper motor were strung improperly.
The squirrel's are beginning to look better all the time.
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