Well looks like TEA is going to simmer on the back burner a while, my car decided it didn't like the 1000 mile drive and dropped dead shortly after. Here's hoping it CAN be fixed
I expect it objected to carrying to many boat anchors for 500 miles plus you and dad
Was it just a normal car service or did it go in for something specific, either way it's OUCH
I think, can't be more than 90% certain but i think, there is a hole in the oil pan leading to the oil literally evacuating itself as it ran. If i'm right the engine is totaled, if i'm wrong the engine is still shot in the metaphorical gut because it's rattlin' like hell.
purely a coincidence that you guys were talking about hv precaution.
but since it came up. hey neo.....be careful around HV. it really really hurts!
Don't I know it, I've been bit by 400VDC before, couldn't feel my hand afterwards. Another time i was working in a house without proper electrical wiring and was working on an outlet that was meant to be shut off, it wasn't. Flew across the room and woke up five minutes later after having visited the pearly gates.
@tggzzz - after that I would buy a lottery ticket!
My best escape - while passing at 100km/hr, a truck decided to move into my lane, nowhere else to go but up over a 8 inch high traffic island, managed to keep control, passed the truck on the traffic island, then got back down! Still doing 80!
Thank goodness for 15 inch rims (bit of spare rubber - no pinch flat) and quite a bit of suspension movement in a Volvo 240!
Sure miss that car!
Two stories, more on demand because shit has happened to me FAR too many times on the roads.
Driving along a two lane blacktop doing about 70
(don't ask me the speed limit, i won't tell you.) and behind me comes another car. This car is beat to hell and back, panels coming off, no windshield, broken back window and it's doing better than a hundred miles an hour. Well it's going to pass me that much is obvious but there is a problem, semi coming in the opposing lane and these guys have a death wish. They pull around me, barreling straight towards the semi with seemingly no regard for me or anything else, my last thought was "This is going to hurt." But it didn't, they pulled back into the correct lane at the very last second, literally scraping the semi and by the literal breadth of a fly's fart they made it unscathed. They got to the nearest town and did a 90 degree corner without even slowing down, saw the same car next week all fixed up.
Second, much shorter story,
Driving home from work one fine morning, came around a corner to find a three ton truck in the wrong lane, coming at me and fast. Faced with certain death once more i didn't holler, curse or exclaim. I merely made peace with it, i was OK with what was coming and since i couldn't stop it so i was going to meet it with a smile. Right about the time i'm contemplating my last words it jerks back into it's own lane.