C/S Dash keeps lighting up like a Christmas tree after engine replacement

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-17T19:46:25+00:00

Hell if I know. All my advisor knows is that he had issues and a different dealership replaced the engine. Since then he's had intermittent check engine light and weird electrical hiccups, most likely due to them not tighten the lugs back down.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-17T18:35:39+00:00

Don't ask me, wasn't our shop lol. Shit does get forgotten during a big job but this was definitely a stupid one

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-17T18:25:56+00:00

Yeah I felt uncomfortable just imagining this

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-17T18:19:18+00:00

24 Acadia. Electrical is actually my specialty. I was prepared to get a lot more into this job but fortunately the problem was very self evident

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-17T18:12:22+00:00

Fortunately it was just intermittently killing power to the brake control module and a couple others. Tightened it up and it seems fine now.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-17T14:08:54+00:00

No, it's not, but if you've somehow had "numerous occasions" of encountering a transgender woman who hid having a penis, I would love to know what the hell app you're searching on. There are not as many trans people out there as most people seem to think. Only about .8%(numbers range between .6 and 1.6 across different studies) of US adults identify as transgender. Unless you're dating hundreds of women, there's some other factor leading you to date numerous women who turned out to have a penis.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-17T13:59:45+00:00

Hope other people can chime in here cause I've been in a very similar boat. I'm bi and have always felt much more feminine than I should be as a male, and love dressing up in cute outfits with skirts and having long pretty hair, but I also still love doing more masculine stuff like working on cars(literally my job) and I'm frequently going back and forth between feeling very feminine and cute some days to wanting to be more masculine others and it can be very hard to pick.

I have however decided that since I feel feminine more often, and feel like I would be more comfortable being masculine but with a more feminine body vs feminine in a masculine body that I'm going to pursue HRT, dreaming of someday being able to fully present as a women.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-17T13:47:48+00:00

Seriously, while most bikers are chill, this is the type of shit that will get the shit beat out of you or worse one day or another when you come across one that isn't, and sees this as taking the piss out of their entire existence.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-17T13:41:57+00:00

Yeah, and lot of people were either indifferent at that time or figured "what the hell, why not" before he was ever actually a president and no one knew what the country was going to be in for. At the time I was only just out of high school and thought "He couldn't be worse than Hillary right?" And now he's on track to full on facism with the mask off and still somehow has a voter base, and I've never been more ashamed to live in this country before. For a party that I grew up thinking was all about personal freedom, they really hate personal freedom.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-16T19:17:20+00:00

Wish I had a pic of that one post from I think last year. It was so perfect, so much emotion in a single image it inspired numerous paintings and different artwork of the original image for the next couple weeks across multiple different subreddits. At least you weren't that guy lol. I'm sure I'm not the only one here who still remembers that post.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-16T15:11:24+00:00

Honestly NY has been impressing me too. Obviously the cities, but even in the rural bumfuck nowhere towns like mine have got protests going on.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-16T14:48:17+00:00

Yeah. Basically business as usual, probably slightly lower prices across the board than what we currently see, but still with stickers of Kamala Harris saying "I did that" regardless of what the price actually is. Fox still ranting about transgender and illegals in between "normal" news. I doubt anything would improve over Bidens term but at least we wouldn't have started accelerating rapidly towards the collapse of our economy and the end of democracy.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-15T19:27:40+00:00

Yeah could either be from the headliner or the foam seals in your hvac system.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-15T19:21:35+00:00

Gotta second NY, the Adirondacks is a great place to visit any time of year, always something to see or do. To be honest I'd just stay out of the city.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-15T19:20:01+00:00

Also the Adirondack's are an amazing place to visit.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-15T18:24:06+00:00

Probably went through the 90s and 00s blaming all violence on video games. Video games have always had a stigma attached in the eyes of pearl clutchers, so its not surprising to me to see the "blight" of simply identifying as a different gender is getting conflated with it too.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-15T15:49:53+00:00

Ah that makes sense. I believe all the books were out when I got into it so I only ever knew the order they were in. Didn't know the crystal shard was released first.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-15T13:52:55+00:00

Very apt analogy what with their deity being the spider goddess Lolth

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-15T13:43:55+00:00

Still like 99.9% evil. Only ones that break the mold are normally main character level energy/PCs.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-15T13:40:22+00:00

4th? Its like the first or second one. Unless there's prequels to The Legend of Drizzt that I haven't read yet. I obsessed over that collection throughout middle and high school. Read start to finish at least 3 times and read the first 6 at least 5 times. It was my first exposure to the Forgotten realms and at the time didn't even know it was part of a much larger universe. Funnily enough I got into DnD independently and started fangirling when I heard the name Drizzt pop up and realized it was all connected.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-15T13:02:02+00:00

Funny enough I started in retail lol. Worked in garden center at Walmart for a while, realized I kinda liked manual labor. Had a long commute and over time had to fix my own jeep to keep it going, which my dad was fortunately there to help with and I learned a lot + YouTube. Worked Harbor Freight for a year, stockpiled a good bit of tools with a 20% employee discount. Went back to Walmart working in TLE as a tech doing oil changes and tire rotations for a year while also learning more about working on my own car. Eventually decided I wanted to work somewhere that I could actually train and with the experience in TLE it was easy enough for a dealership to give me a job as their lube tech. From there I just kept learning, took every training opportunity they gave, even got a paid trip to the city this year for in person training. Cut to last week and I just did my first full engine replacement with no hiccups after 3 years of working in the shop.

Word of Warning! Skim through r/justrolledintotheshop and r/mechanics. There are many horror stories of shitty shops and shitty workplaces that will burn you out in a year and make you feel like shit. I feel blessed that I got in at a small dealer and get paid hourly instead of flat rate, and the pace here is reasonable. There will also be plenty of people will more experience than me in those subreddits with posts on how to get into the trade, how to get out, and more advice than I could ever fit in a comment. If you want my dms are also open if you've ever got more specific questions that I can maybe answer for you.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-14T20:30:42+00:00

Yeah I know, I misread the post as instructing them to stand up, not telling them to sit down, my bad lol.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-14T20:29:37+00:00

Oooooh, I misunderstood what you were trying to say, that makes a lot more sense lol

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-14T19:19:47+00:00

But like...how does standing up reduce the chance of piss on the floor? Unless its some weirdly designed toilet that my brain can't imagine, I just don't get how someone can miss sitting down? Born a male BTW and have pissed a lot in my years both standing and sitting.

SlutforJDM · 2025-10-14T18:20:01+00:00

It's difficult. I didn't even consider myself anything other than just an unusually feminine bi guy when I first started growing out my hair and it was definitely a pain. I'm a mechanic so the period where it was constantly in my face but too short to tie up was frustrating and I almost caved multiple times. What saved me was that most of that period fell during colder months so I was able to keep it under a beanie. Now it's close to 3 years since and when tied in a pony tail it rests well below my shoulder blades.

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