My current car is going alright, tho there are a few things I’ve been needing to get checked out. It has been having some weird electrical issues. Before I moved up here to Wyoming, I was going to work one time, and when I got in the car, it wouldn’t shift out of park, and something happened where the sensor that detects if the brake pedal is depressed wasn’t clicking on, and so it wouldn’t shift out of park. I took it into a shop, and they fixed it… but then they also made the horn stop working and also the parking lights. It was really kind of appalling, they were like, “Do you need a horn?”, I’m like, “well, yeah, and it was working before so normally you should be returning the car in the same shape or better than it was when it was dropped off…”. Eugh. Anyway, so now the parking lights still don’t work, but it still shifts and everything.
I also have a check engine light for a minor transmission leak, which I’m not sure about, and also one of the valve lifts for the intake valve is not engaging. Apparently it’s not a terribly serious thing, but it definitely is probably not running at it’s full potential tho. I don’t really notice any problems while driving. I’m wondering if it’s something electrical, cuz all these issues are tied to the engine control module, so I think there’s a short or something somewhere, so that’s no good.
One more issue with it, again, something not serious but more of a creature comfort, is there was one winter where I got in my car, and it was cold of course, and I kinda forced the dial for the fan direction, and I think I might’ve twisted a belt or something in the control mechanism for it, because after I did that, my in cabin fan directional dial won’t go all the way to the left or all the way to the right. If you try to, it fights back, and it won’t click into place. Also, the fans don’t seem to actually go in the direction where they’re supposedly going, like, the air will go out under the windshield and to your feet and out the front all kinda at once, so I usually just crank it to 4 with heat or AC and just go with that. It still seems to defrost OK, so I can get by in the winter ok. I’m sure it’s some kind of belt or something that got twisted somewhere, I just need to get in there or take it somewhere.