Mini heart attack!!!
10-08-2015, 10:51 PM
#1
Rennlist Member
Thread Starter
Mini heart attack!!!
This morning, I started my car when I was pulling down the driveway, an alert came in "Check engine drive to workshop" and dissapeared right away, I drove back again, shut down the engine immediately and I imagined the bearings from the IMS destroying my engine, catastrofic failure, engine light is definitely something serious, that's it, now I have a roller, rebuilt the engine, sale for parts, what now?
My wife told me, I was pale, I turn like a ghost, I opened my cel, google the words and the first solution was check the gas cap, I did it immediately, I turned and heared the click and that was it. The only thing I know is a lost 5 years of my life in an instant.
My wife told me, I was pale, I turn like a ghost, I opened my cel, google the words and the first solution was check the gas cap, I did it immediately, I turned and heared the click and that was it. The only thing I know is a lost 5 years of my life in an instant.
10-09-2015, 12:30 PM
#4
Race Director
If not for Porsche's on-board diagnostics, ARPANET spending a decent amount of money developing TCP/IP, and the advent of the silicon transistor and the modern microprocessor, people would actually have to remember to tighten their gas caps.
*phew*
Thanks, Al Gore, for inventing the Internets!
*phew*
Thanks, Al Gore, for inventing the Internets!
10-09-2015, 03:59 PM
#6
Three Wheelin'
LOL, weakling. When my AMG poopied it trans fluid all over and limped home, I parked it, saw the fluid trail behind me and a massive puddle under the car- I closed the garage and went to get a beer. 
When my C2 poopied its coolant all over at Snowbowl two years ago, I asked the girl I was with to go get some plastic glasses and a beer...I used the empty glasses to pour the coolant into the tank, filled it up, filled myself up, drove down.
Can't be getting worried over cars man.
When my C2 poopied its coolant all over at Snowbowl two years ago, I asked the girl I was with to go get some plastic glasses and a beer...I used the empty glasses to pour the coolant into the tank, filled it up, filled myself up, drove down.
Can't be getting worried over cars man.
10-09-2015, 04:26 PM
#7
Three Wheelin'
LOL, weakling. When my AMG poopied it trans fluid all over and limped home, I parked it, saw the fluid trail behind me and a massive puddle under the car- I closed the garage and went to get a beer.
When my C2 poopied its coolant all over at Snowbowl two years ago, I asked the girl I was with to go get some plastic glasses and a beer...I used the empty glasses to pour the coolant into the tank, filled it up, filled myself up, drove down.
Can't be getting worried over cars man.
When my C2 poopied its coolant all over at Snowbowl two years ago, I asked the girl I was with to go get some plastic glasses and a beer...I used the empty glasses to pour the coolant into the tank, filled it up, filled myself up, drove down.
Can't be getting worried over cars man.
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10-09-2015, 04:26 PM
#8
Race Director
Heh. One nice thing about driving cars you don't really care about: You don't really care about them. When I missed a shift from 5th to 4th in my Mazda pickup and caught second, the really loud bang turned out to be most of the gearbox turning into shrapnel - but I still had 1st and 5th, albiet with no clutch. Drove it 90 miles like that. Every time I had to pull the car out of 5th, I could feel stuff bouncing around in there. I think the rebuild for that thing set me back about $250.
Another car, I caught the brakes on fire (like, flames licking up over the fenders when I stopped fire), pulled up in front of a stranger's house, grabbed their hose, put out my brakes, and kept driving.
Those rotors were never quite right after being hosed down while the linings were on fire...it had a definite tendency to make hard rights under braking.
Another car, I caught the brakes on fire (like, flames licking up over the fenders when I stopped fire), pulled up in front of a stranger's house, grabbed their hose, put out my brakes, and kept driving.
Those rotors were never quite right after being hosed down while the linings were on fire...it had a definite tendency to make hard rights under braking.
10-09-2015, 04:29 PM
#9
Three Wheelin'
Heh. One nice thing about driving cars you don't really care about: You don't really care about them. When I missed a shift from 5th to 4th in my Mazda pickup and caught second, the really loud bang turned out to be most of the gearbox turning into shrapnel - but I still had 1st and 5th, albiet with no clutch. Drove it 90 miles like that. Every time I had to pull the car out of 5th, I could feel stuff bouncing around in there. I think the rebuild for that thing set me back about $250.
Another car, I caught the brakes on fire (like, flames licking up over the fenders when I stopped fire), pulled up in front of a stranger's house, grabbed their hose, put out my brakes, and kept driving.
Those rotors were never quite right after being hosed down while the linings were on fire.
Another car, I caught the brakes on fire (like, flames licking up over the fenders when I stopped fire), pulled up in front of a stranger's house, grabbed their hose, put out my brakes, and kept driving.
Those rotors were never quite right after being hosed down while the linings were on fire.
10-09-2015, 04:33 PM
#10
Race Director
I bought the Mazda when I got my license. That poor truck didn't deserve the life it got for the next couple of years. It was a turd, but it wasn't a turd that deserved that kind of beat-down.
Didja know you can snap the drive shaft in a Mazda from repeatedly jumping it? True story, Bro!
Didja know you can snap the drive shaft in a Mazda from repeatedly jumping it? True story, Bro!
10-09-2015, 05:05 PM
#11
Three Wheelin'
Bruh, it would not happen it you checked your carrier bearings and lubricated the drive-shaft joints every weekend. Those dreaded Mazda drive shafts are always problematic in my stable bro.
10-09-2015, 07:37 PM
#13
Drifting
This morning, I started my car when I was pulling down the driveway, an alert came in "Check engine drive to workshop" and dissapeared right away, I drove back again, shut down the engine immediately and I imagined the bearings from the IMS destroying my engine, catastrofic failure, engine light is definitely something serious, that's it, now I have a roller, rebuilt the engine, sale for parts, what now?
My wife told me, I was pale, I turn like a ghost, I opened my cel, google the words and the first solution was check the gas cap, I did it immediately, I turned and heared the click and that was it. The only thing I know is a lost 5 years of my life in an instant.
My wife told me, I was pale, I turn like a ghost, I opened my cel, google the words and the first solution was check the gas cap, I did it immediately, I turned and heared the click and that was it. The only thing I know is a lost 5 years of my life in an instant.
Dude, you need to spend less time on RL(at least the 996 section of RL) and you'll enjoy your car more...ask me how I know.
Between the incessant doom and gloom posts, the continual thinly veiled ads by our resident vendors, and the blatant ads(my favorite is the glaring red ad proclaiming all 996s will self destruct), it's enough to scare even the most battle-scarred enthusiast.
Getting a CEL and immediately getting "white as a ghost" and losing "5 years of my life in an instant" is not normal...go get a beer and take a RL vacation.
