Vanilla SHort SHort Baby...

[SmoothLine]

Ok, its not my immobiliser, the auto elec totally disconnected it... And gave some credit to John for his bypassing (job offer still stands lol)

There is a huge short coming from one of a few wires leading from the boot to the front... We tested it a good dozen times, starting the car, then letting it die... first 3 times it lasted same as last night 40secs or so... THe rest its just shorting straight away, which is good because a constant short is easy to find...

So getting it towed to the auto elec's workshop on monday and should be ready monday afternoon...

I am now going to open a new bank account with SKYLINE OWNERS BANKING just to make it easier when spending money to keep my peice of shit japanese car on the road

[jlnewton]

At, least it looks like the problem will be easy to remedy. It would be interesting to know what caused it though, I guess that will come out in the wash. A night not totally in vane!

[strutto]

Can this go in QLD Smooth?

[NA_R33]

haha, good hear matty, im sorry i couldnt be of more help good to hear its nothing major though.

[SmoothLine]

Can this go in QLD Smooth?

No.

LOL jk,

yeah sure thing... It may be a problem some others encounter one day and I will update the thread with details etc

[predator]

i hear you broda.... but its gonna be a nasty bill

I need a big loan from the Skyline bank too i'm a life member

[SmoothLine]

He said 2 hours once its in the workshop... $130, plus towing cost

[BelGarion]

couldnt you get the racq to tow it again?

[SmoothLine]

Yes RACQ is towing it...

It's early, its FREEZING cold, and ive been up since 6am...

Now waiting for flatbed to take me to the promised land...

[BelGarion]

yer i know the feeling

worse yet is when ya do turn up late at the place your car is sposed to be they blame it on you, even tho you had to wait for the tow truck to turn up, LATE :S

so howd it go?

[NA_R33]

howd u go matty?

[SmoothLine]

Yeah took all day for him to fix it, but I picked the car up at 3pm.

A wire was locked under the cam cover (bent and squshed) after the sparkplug change a few weeks back, this created alot of heat and burnt a pinhole through the wire's insulation, so it was shorting onto the engine...

All up $750.

[Charly]

ouch.

[knore]

Damn thats one expensive spark plug change.

Now i know why ide rather just put in Iridiums and change my plugs 5x less than coppers.

Good to hear shes all fixed tho

[SmoothLine]

THought I should make it clear it wasnt a result of how the sparkplug change was done... simply a wire had decided to give up... and the movement was enough to finish it off

[Squizz]

Hell no, let's blame Dodgey John anyway!

[SmoothLine]

No, it wasnt johns fault... I was tempted to joke around saying he forgot to reconnect a wire though...

But as I said above, just a wire past its usedby date...

[NA_R33]