2006-01-24
musings
In the course of my ongoing attempt to clear my chest of drawers of 2 years' worth of G2s, I came tonight to 2004/04/19. And what did it contain? A 2 page 3 way conversation about blogging, featuring our very own ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rhodri
There was an amusing piece in the one from the 20th blaming Jimmy Saville for the rise of bling, too.
Meanwhile, outside of G2...
Judy from the Tweenies: hot or not?
My car was in the garage again today, to have the timing belts done (they ran out of time last week). I hadn't mentioned what follows before as (a) I didn't want to speculate on something that might go either way, and (b) I wasn't sure how I was going to handle it if it went badly - that garage has a decent rep and is massively convenient, being literally next door to J's nursery. What it was, was this:
1. After the standard service, the idle went weird. Intermittently too high, with occasional hunting even higher. But mostly OK. I Googled around and found that apparently air in the coolant system can cause that by some weird interaction with the sensors feeding the ECU, and there's a bleed bolt you can use to fix it. So I mentioned this to them and they checked and found it has a self-bleeding system and it didn't do it to them today and it has been getting less frequent, so... We assume it's that and it's sorting itself out. But if it persists...
2. They re-gassed the aircon. And it started making hideous noises that it never used to. otoh it got cold straight away instead of taking 5 minutes to get merely cool... But they were saying, ooo might need a new compressor, undreds of pahnds guv. Except they have Mancunian accents, of course. The only thing I could find on the internet for this one was a lot of Americans basically abandoned by Honda after the switch from refrigerants with CFCs in who couldn't get working aircon in an Arizona summer, and something about any time you get the quantity of fluids wrong, almost anything can happen. So, we decided to try taking some of the fluid out to see what happens. And they reckon they ran it for a while with no nasty noises and it still gets cold. But they can't say it's fixed, of course: I'm supposed to try it occasionally over the next few weeks, just to see. Like I want aircon now, with the gritter having just gone up the hill.
Thing is, what if these 2 faults hadn't gone away? They weren't there BEFORE this garage touched the car, but there's no proof they weren't latent, just waiting for the disturbance of new fluids, filters, belts, etc. What would I have done?
rhodriThere was an amusing piece in the one from the 20th blaming Jimmy Saville for the rise of bling, too.
Meanwhile, outside of G2...
Judy from the Tweenies: hot or not?
My car was in the garage again today, to have the timing belts done (they ran out of time last week). I hadn't mentioned what follows before as (a) I didn't want to speculate on something that might go either way, and (b) I wasn't sure how I was going to handle it if it went badly - that garage has a decent rep and is massively convenient, being literally next door to J's nursery. What it was, was this:
1. After the standard service, the idle went weird. Intermittently too high, with occasional hunting even higher. But mostly OK. I Googled around and found that apparently air in the coolant system can cause that by some weird interaction with the sensors feeding the ECU, and there's a bleed bolt you can use to fix it. So I mentioned this to them and they checked and found it has a self-bleeding system and it didn't do it to them today and it has been getting less frequent, so... We assume it's that and it's sorting itself out. But if it persists...
2. They re-gassed the aircon. And it started making hideous noises that it never used to. otoh it got cold straight away instead of taking 5 minutes to get merely cool... But they were saying, ooo might need a new compressor, undreds of pahnds guv. Except they have Mancunian accents, of course. The only thing I could find on the internet for this one was a lot of Americans basically abandoned by Honda after the switch from refrigerants with CFCs in who couldn't get working aircon in an Arizona summer, and something about any time you get the quantity of fluids wrong, almost anything can happen. So, we decided to try taking some of the fluid out to see what happens. And they reckon they ran it for a while with no nasty noises and it still gets cold. But they can't say it's fixed, of course: I'm supposed to try it occasionally over the next few weeks, just to see. Like I want aircon now, with the gritter having just gone up the hill.
Thing is, what if these 2 faults hadn't gone away? They weren't there BEFORE this garage touched the car, but there's no proof they weren't latent, just waiting for the disturbance of new fluids, filters, belts, etc. What would I have done?