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I’ve owned my car two and a half months short of nine years.
Recently, I couldn’t get the little door covering the gas filler open. This happened twice.
The first time, it was cold and following a rainy night. I thought the door was frozen shut so I ran it through the car wash to unfreeze it
It worked!
The next time, a couple days ago when we had subzero weather, I thought the little door was frozen again when I couldn’t open when I needed to gas up. Since both times my gasoline was down to a low point, a panic set in when I found both car washes closed because of the cold!
When I got home and parked my car, my neighbor listened to my tale of woe and said, “It’s open now!” I asked him to leave it open and I drove to the station around the corner and gassed up.
I drove home and parked. Out of curiosity, since it still was below zero, I tried opening the little door. It opened right up!
“I wonder,” I thought, “if the x%$#@ thing locks when I lock the doors.”
I locked the doors. It wouldn’t open up. I unlocked the doors. It did open!
There you go. I managed to learn something new about my almost nine-year-old car!
That must be a safety feature on the car. No one can siphon your gas or put something in the tank. It’s funny how we use something for years and still find new things.
I often thought it unfortunate that if that filler door didn’t lock, the VW engineers could have added a locking gasoline cap to that model car. Little did I know, eh?!
It’s good that Andy gets his medication. Sometimes, the way you found out about having the gas tank door unlocked is how things are learned.
Medicating a cat is an interesting process….
It amazes me that I didn’t have the problem/solution to problem until almost nine years after buying the car!
Well done to Andy And Doug! Proud of you both! 👍🏻
Sometimes things come together!
Cars are too technical today, Doug!
That’s a fact, John! Mine has internet connectivity like all seem to have these days, which comes with all the complications that has…like needing upgrades of different features, at a cost, fir how little one needs or uses them.
My Buick has international. It I never use it. More bells and whistles than I’ll ever use.
That seems to be inevitable with modern ars and trucks!
I meant internet… 😂
I think I guessed that, but thanks for the clarification.
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I am glad Andy cooperated and the car mystery was figured out! Cold and especially cold, damp weather can have unwanted effects on electronics, too.
I think of your antique “Subaru” and how it’s been a reliable ride for you. All the fancy features new cars have don’t necessarily mean better cars, just cars with more complexity. My first VW Golf was a new 1975 one when they were marketed as VW Rabbits. Ghe Engine compartment had tons of open space in it, the car had so few electronics or special features. My 2016 Golf’s engine compartment is crammed full, with no real space for anything more to cram more stuff in it. I had a headlight burn out. In the 1975 version. I could buy a sealed beam headlight, install it myself for the price if the headlight at a local store. In the 2016 version, with nicely styled headlights, the bulb has to be accessed by removing the liner inside the fender. Cost: $168 and the drive costs to go to the dealership 157 miles away! To just replace a bulb!
That seems to be the way of things now.
Yes, seems like it.
Frigid weather brings out the worst in mechanical equipment.
It seems like cold weather is equal to weekends and holidays for that sort of things. Sunday, my refrigerator bought the dust. Fortunately, I hadn’t gone yo the grocery store first. I checked the refrigerator to see what to add to what I needed. Whew! Anyway, my landlord authorized a new refrigerator the same day, the maintenance guy bought one at Menard’s in Scottsbluff, 57 miles away, and delivered it. They have to sit in place for the refrigerant to settle in (?) Before they can be plugged in, which happens today, 24 hours after I opened the freezer door on the old one,and found a stinky, unfrozen mess! Fortunately. I’d been getting things get low in the refrigerator because I wasn’t using this is up fast enough in past, and ended up having to trash freezer burnt things.
I can relate to that. I learned something new about my 3 year old computer this week that has been baffling (and no, they are not intuitive!). From time to time, one of my cats will need an appetite stimulant which is rubbed in the ear. You also rotate ears so I had to keep a chart. I thought I could remember but I couldn’t.
Yes, the ear rotation business seems simple till you have to do it! When I had to do it twice a day, I had the mnemonic of “right at night” to keep straight, buy when it was changed to once every other day…. That’s when the chart came about.
Well done on kitty and car
Sometimes one wins, eh?!
Oh, how I can relate! I’ve owned my car for nine years and just figured out how to set the time on my dashboard clock. 😑 Up until now, it just blinked the wrong time at me, Daylight Savings Time or not. Not sure whether to smack my head on the steering wheel in frustration or laugh at how long it took me to learn how to fix it!
I’ve left the time set for whatever it was when I bought the car in 2016. I refuse to learn how to waste my time learning how a different company’s car clocks are set! AllI need to know is when the time is in minutes and whether I subtract an hour – or is it add one? – and when the time shown is the actual time. Right now, it shows the correct time, so it must have been on standard time when I bought it, not Daylight Savings Time, which it would have been in May.
An easy kitty medicating episode is always a bonus! Good to solve the locking gas filler door mystery too!
Whew! Sometimes he goes places I can’t catch him. I’ve learned, though, when does that, just wait and he’ll come to me or go some place like this time where I can box him in with a closed door.