Car trouble need help

Keep us posted Bill, looks like another interesting thread by you.

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I consider 18 an adult, you have the right to do alot by law. The computer is a problem, but the mechanic is doing it. I am paying him for a new computer, new sensor and to take the carpet out and dry it if that works, Either way, carpet has to come out and needs to be dried.
 
Bill1234 said:
I consider 18 an adult, you have the right to do alot by law.
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Conversely...and Ironically:

Being a "legal adult" at age 18 also releases the parents
from the requirement of legal responsibility for said child.

This means that even if the newly-legal adult is still in high school...
Parents are under no legal obligations to continue to provide housing or care.

Exceptions have been made in cases of divorce/child support---but this only reinforces the idea
that any continued financial support can only attest to the fact that their newly-legal adult/child
is really not quite an adult yet...regardless of age.


Also:
For many parents (including myself many years ago) the term "legal-adult" does not mean
their offspring/children possess certain adult characteristics.

Being an adult implies being able to make mature decisions, participate in civic matters, have self-control, and be responsible.
Some 18-year-olds simply lack these characteristics and need further time to develop them.

Because it personally happened to me:
It concerns me that an 18-year-old can make life-altering decisions...which may not have been made with significant forethought.


Surely...
There are as many parents that hate the fact they no longer have any legal-control over their now legal-adult children,
as there are 18 years-old/legal-adults that are glad to be legally free from parental control.

However...
That's when some children find themselves adrift at the point when they could most
use the help and support of parents or other kind adults.

Hopefully, OP, upon becoming a "legal-adult" you will not ever find
yourself adrift in the oftentimes tumultuous: "Ocean of Life".

:)

Bob
 
Bill1234 said:
I cant go to the junk yard to do the repair, the mechanic has to, he is ordering the parts, I will have to see about the computer problem
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not so, I have ordered many a part from junkyards all over the US. If your mech told you HE has to go get a part,,,, Idd look around more on your own. Granted there are some yard taht are Dealer and mech only,, but the net has opened that way up.
 
FUNX725 said:
Conversely...and Ironically:

Being a "legal adult" at age 18 also releases the parents
from the requirement of legal responsibility for said child.

This means that even if the newly-legal adult is still in high school...
Parents are under no legal obligations to continue to provide housing or care.

Exceptions have been made in cases of divorce/child support---but this only reinforces the idea
that any continued financial support can only attest to the fact that their newly-legal adult/child
is really not quite an adult yet...regardless of age.


Also:
For many parents (including myself many years ago) the term "legal-adult" does not mean
their offspring/children possess certain adult characteristics.

Being an adult implies being able to make mature decisions, participate in civic matters, have self-control, and be responsible.
Some 18-year-olds simply lack these characteristics and need further time to develop them.

Because it personally happened to me:
It concerns me that an 18-year-old can make life-altering decisions...which may not have been made with significant forethought.


Surely...
There are as many parents that hate the fact they no longer have any legal-control over their now legal-adult children,
as there are 18 years-old/legal-adults that are glad to be legally free from parental control.

However...
That's when some children find themselves adrift at the point when they could most
use the help and support of parents or other kind adults.

Hopefully, OP, upon becoming a "legal-adult" you will not ever find
yourself adrift in the oftentimes tumultuous: "Ocean of Life".

:)

Bob
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:iagree: +1 I have to agree. It is all per person. Were they taught right? Will they employ the hopefully good lessons they have been learning since the age of 2? Being a Father of a said "legal-adult" I have to wonder. My "legal-adult" is book smart, Yet not street smart. Will be heading off to Colledge in the fall, We as parents can only hope we did it all right.
As a 20 yr Vet only 4 yrs Retired, I can also say this with authority: Once I was in a position of rank to which I was assigned these newly "legal-adults" I found that for 3 out of 5 of them, I was having to be a kindergarten teacher. Once in the real world of being responsible for their own actions,, They had no clue and when there was no one to Bail them out, I was the "mean father figure" who delt with them. Little did they know that they usually got off lightly due to the fact that I was taking most the Heat and A$$ Chewing for their juvanial acts. I was also told to make them wake up and smell the coffee. For some, it prooved to be inpossible and they were let go OTH admin sep. Most woke up, and had a good career.

I have to agree. 25 is closer to being an adult nowdays. 18 was an adult when most of that age bracket was already raising familys (not cause they knocked up the girlfriend) and being productive members of society.

Ok sorry to go so off topic, but you hit on a sensitive button with your comment
 
Recently I have had the pleasure of working on a few cars that a local dealer got from up north after hurricane sandy. These cars were all totaled due to water damage. Some were better then others. Keep in mind this job was just to make them mechanically sound, thank god some of those interiors were really bad and they thought they could be saved. Anyways, in all four of the cars the ECUs were bad. I disconnected all of them and put them in a bag of desiccant for a couple of days. I was able to save two of the four.
Someones comment earlier in the thread got me wondering if there is a douchebag forum somewhere online.
 
beamerstrumpet said:
Oh sorry, There is that familiarity of acronym thing again :)
OTH = OTHER THAN HONORABLE and admin sep = Administrative Seperation.
It is one step above DISHONORABLE. Not a good thing for anyones future resume.
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NP I text my family member "Meg's" they then said what is "Meg's"

I explained it was Meguiar's and they said "oh!!!, Dork" haha
 
Setec Astronomy said:
No, that's way off...the GM cars before OBD I, from, um...'81? had CCC (Computer Command Control). When the check engine light came on, you could short out two pins in the ALDC (Assembly Line Diagnostic Connector, forerunner of OBD) and the MIL would blink out the trouble code. Later I bought a little tool that had different pins/sockets on different sides for doing the same thing on GM, Ford and Chrysler cars.

PS While looking up when GM started with CCC, I apparently am senile enough to have misremembered the acronym, Wikipedia says it was ALDL (Assembly Line Diagnostic Link).
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Well, age has done its' number on me...COMPLETLY forgot that. To add injury to insult, I used to do 'that.' A paper clip was sure cheaper than a scan tool.

Bill
 
BillE said:
Well, age has done its' number on me...COMPLETLY forgot that. To add injury to insult, I used to do 'that.' A paper clip was sure cheaper than a scan tool.
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Oh...paperclip...that's a good idea...a lot easier than trying to stick the end of a piece of stranded wire in there...
 
Hey Bill, I will not go into a long diatribe about what's an adult and what's not but where I'm from its simple, 21 is adulthood, so 21 is 21, good luck with the car, wished you had saved some money and bought those Conti's, probably would've come in handy here;-)

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The car repair will not be as much as I thought. They were able to dry out the carpet with the water and repair what was needed.
 
So what did they end up replacing exactly?

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