This morning the car had an attitude problem. It decided not to start when it was time for me to go to school. A wonderful friend in my complex came to my rescue. We followed the instructions on the cables perfectly, but everytime I tried to connect the final cable (the black ground) the car began to honk. I was totally confused. We couldn't get it to jump. I felt so bad because my friend spent all that time in the rain helping me try to jump the car. I had to call Matt to leave work, come home, I took him back to work, then went to school (having missed my morning 2 hour class) and got to my afternoon class late, and finally picked him up from work so we could both go home.
Matt found the answer to this strange behavior on a car blog. Apparently when our battery got drained, the security system decided something sketchy was going on and activated. Every little part of that car was saying "I will not be tampered with." We could not get anything to work. The engine, automatic locks, odometer, NOTHING. The secret was to connect the final jumper cable, let the car honk repeatedly while we hurriedly turned on the booster car, and then pushed the lock/unlock buttons on the key fob of the crazy car.
All that just to convince our own car that I wanted to drive it to school.
Wow. How did you figure that out?
ReplyDeleteMatt did some research online. He found a car blog by two mechanics that said to try this.
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