Teh Blarg » car http://raybdbomb.com Incessant babble and otherwise blarg Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:49:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha en hourly 1 2003 Chrysler Sebring incessant horn http://raybdbomb.com/p/2003-chrysler-sebring-incessant-horn.html http://raybdbomb.com/p/2003-chrysler-sebring-incessant-horn.html#comments Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:28:23 +0000 Raybdbomb http://raybdbomb.com/p/2003-chrysler-sebring-incessant-horn.html I turned on my car yesterday, and it had a little trouble starting, then when it finally turned on the horn blared and wouldn’t turn off. Turning off the car, pressing the horn, pressing the “panic” button on the remote all didn’t turn the horn off. After about 3 minutes, the horn stopped sounding, as if the battery died.

Turning it on the next day yielded the same results, and it again stopped after 3 minutes.

Pat thought it might be the battery going bad, so he tested another battery, and sure enough the car started up without the blaring horn. So we bought a new battery at Costco for ~$50 and Pat installed it in about 30 minutes. I drove the car to work today, works great.

It’s perplexing that a car would have a mechanism that sounds the horn if there’s something wrong with the battery. Couldn’t it flash a message on the dash, or just not start the car? No, those wouldn’t be embarrassing enough…

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Hoorah.

]]> http://raybdbomb.com/p/honda-sold.html/feed 1 Honda for Sale! http://raybdbomb.com/p/honda-for-sale.html http://raybdbomb.com/p/honda-for-sale.html#comments Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:56:55 +0000 Raybdbomb http://raybdbomb.com/p/honda-for-sale.html My Dead 1990 Honda Accord EX is for sale ($600), since I’ve got a new car.

My White 1990 Honda Accord EX died on me last month. I couldn’t figure out the problem, so I’m selling it AS-IS.

It has a misaligned trunk from being rear-ended in early 2005, but it’s purely cosmetic.

The car has new tires, purchased in 2005. The interior is in good condition.

]]> http://raybdbomb.com/p/honda-for-sale.html/feed 1 2003 Chrysler Sebring http://raybdbomb.com/p/2003-chrysler-sebring.html http://raybdbomb.com/p/2003-chrysler-sebring.html#comments Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:38:48 +0000 Raybdbomb http://raybdbomb.com/p/2003-chrysler-sebring.html Since my car died, we bought a new one, a 2003 Chrysler Sebring.

Yes we overpaid, but it was most everything we wanted in a car.

]]> http://raybdbomb.com/p/2003-chrysler-sebring.html/feed 7 My Car Is Dead. http://raybdbomb.com/p/my-car-is-dead.html http://raybdbomb.com/p/my-car-is-dead.html#comments Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:33:25 +0000 Raybdbomb http://raybdbomb.com/p/my-car-is-dead.html I was driving down the road, and my car died. I couldn’t start it back up afterwards.

I think this is the last straw for my 1990 Honda Accord. It’s time to look for a newer, reliable and cheap replacement.

It was a good run, 5 years. RIP

On the bright side, this is right before my insurance expired, so I can start a new plan with a new car. :)

]]> http://raybdbomb.com/p/my-car-is-dead.html/feed 3 Car falling apart http://raybdbomb.com/p/car-falling-apart.html http://raybdbomb.com/p/car-falling-apart.html#comments Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:41:31 +0000 Raybdbomb http://raybdbomb.com/p/car-falling-apart.html Do you see anything wrong with this picture?

The car is getting worse… I’m counting down the days until it dies.

]]> http://raybdbomb.com/p/car-falling-apart.html/feed 1 My 1990 Honda Accord http://raybdbomb.com/p/my-1990-honda-accord.html http://raybdbomb.com/p/my-1990-honda-accord.html#comments Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:48:30 +0000 Raybdbomb http://raybdbomb.com/p/my-1990-honda-accord.html My car has dash lights galore!

Check Engine Light – shows when I brake on the freeway… I’m not sure why. I call it my car’s rebellion to traffic.
Flashing Sports Mode Light – it’s like the car doesn’t know if it wants to go “Sporty” or “Regular”
Broken/Intermittently Broken Speedometer – do you know any other 1990 Honda Accords that can go 0-80 in 0.5 seconds? :P
Broken Tripometer and Odometer (when the above doesn’t work) – what a better way to limit milage than to have it not track!
Rear Lamp Light Out – I know it’s not out, my car knows it’s not out… but my car doesn’t know that I know that it knows it’s not out!

]]> http://raybdbomb.com/p/my-1990-honda-accord.html/feed 1 2006 Saturn Vue http://raybdbomb.com/p/2006-saturn-vue.html http://raybdbomb.com/p/2006-saturn-vue.html#comments Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:44:28 +0000 Raybdbomb http://raybdbomb.com/p/2006-saturn-vue.html Robin and Pat just purchased a 2006 Saturn Vue. Congrats, it looks cool!

Check out the pictures.

]]> http://raybdbomb.com/p/2006-saturn-vue.html/feed 2 Traffic http://raybdbomb.com/p/traffic.html http://raybdbomb.com/p/traffic.html#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:43:59 +0000 Raybdbomb http://raybdbomb.com/p/traffic.html Because of one “stalled car” on I5, a 30 minute routine trip took about 80 minutes today. Can the car not be moved to the side of the road? What’s the problem? Traffic was so bad that the person with whom I carpool was late for his meeting, and I would not have even made it to school before my class was finished.

Traffic is ridiculous. What a waste of a morning.

]]> http://raybdbomb.com/p/traffic.html/feed 2 My Car http://raybdbomb.com/p/my-car.html http://raybdbomb.com/p/my-car.html#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:00:07 +0000 Raybdbomb http://raybdbomb.com/p/my-car.html I have a 1990 Honda Accord. It was once great. Now? Not so much.

I bought the car in 2002 for $2500 when I first got my license. I bought it from my Aunt and Uncle, who said it was “the best car they’ve ever had”. Since then, I’ve put on 50,000 miles, 1 totalling accident, a brake job, and a new muffler.

Sometime in 2003, I noticed that the “Brake Lamp” light on my dash was lit up. I checked, there were no brake lights out. I changed the brake bulbs, the light didn’t go away. Confused and frustrated, I said forget it. So now, there’s a permanent “Brake Lamp” light on my dash. YAY.

The car has always had a problem with overheating… if I’m on the freeway in traffic on a hot day, the engine temperature will get to the H, forcing me to turn up the heat and roll down the windows (because it’s not hot enough anyway). This was actually the catalyst to more problems.

Because I carpool with Pat, he wanted to fix the overheating problem, and he was sure that he could. He has a background in dealing with cars, so I trusted him. He “replaced a fuse and cleaned the grounds”, whatever that means, and at first it was great. The air conditioner could be kept on for the whole hour long trip from Tualatin to Vancouver in traffic. A few days later, the speedometer stopped working. I would be driving, and all of a sudden it would read “0 mph”. It would intermittently swap between 0 and the correct mph. (By the way, have you ever seen a 1990 Honda Accord go 0-60 in 0.5 seconds? I have :) .)

After a few days of dealing with this problem, I was told it wasn’t serious, just perhaps a cosmetic problem. Then all of a sudden, the “Check Engine” light would intermittently come on. I may be car-dumb, but I know that’s certainly not “cosmetic”…

So I’ll be taking it into the shop (joy) very soon, hopefully it won’t be too serious (expensive).

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