well i wanted to tell somebody else this story, and i figured the only other people who would appreciate it is you guys.
yesterday i jumped in my car after work and it wouldnt start. it was hot as balls, and i listened and knew it was the main relay. luckily i had an extra one in the trunk for this very reason, but no tools besides pliars and a flathead screwdriver. keeping an extra was assuming i would be able to get the plug out of the old one... which of course i couldnt, with a million cubic feet of alarm wiring and the cruise control box in the way. i could get to it, but the release tab was on the wrong side.
5 minutes of wiggling my hand around, i took the flathead and smashed it through the sides of the MR and broke the clips off the sides to pull the center out. no go, the clutch pedal switch was directly under it and in the way. pliars to the rescue, i unscrewed the switch and threw it in the back. finally got the core of the MR out (left the case and bracket mounted under the dash), i plugged the extra one in...
...also bad. yay for parts from maple!! lol...
so i opened the extra one up and used the screwdriver to mash the solder around and make the connections and plugged it back in, and it finally worked.
yay for bootleg, short notice repair without real tools
yesterday i jumped in my car after work and it wouldnt start. it was hot as balls, and i listened and knew it was the main relay. luckily i had an extra one in the trunk for this very reason, but no tools besides pliars and a flathead screwdriver. keeping an extra was assuming i would be able to get the plug out of the old one... which of course i couldnt, with a million cubic feet of alarm wiring and the cruise control box in the way. i could get to it, but the release tab was on the wrong side.
5 minutes of wiggling my hand around, i took the flathead and smashed it through the sides of the MR and broke the clips off the sides to pull the center out. no go, the clutch pedal switch was directly under it and in the way. pliars to the rescue, i unscrewed the switch and threw it in the back. finally got the core of the MR out (left the case and bracket mounted under the dash), i plugged the extra one in...
...also bad. yay for parts from maple!! lol...
so i opened the extra one up and used the screwdriver to mash the solder around and make the connections and plugged it back in, and it finally worked.
yay for bootleg, short notice repair without real tools
Which one of your cars is that? Function>Form haha. I'm thinking about taking the nasty carpet out of mine and spraying the floor down with truck bed liner. Is the road noise really that much different without carpet?
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