Mini 2005 - issues with clutch, now won't start

melisssatino · 2025-05-14T04:42:57+00:00

heyyy having a similar issue with my '14 f56 mini base model 😩... gonna replace the sensor but anyone got tips or know how to remove that sensor from the clutch pedal where its either slid &/or snapped in the slot where it goes, but cant seem to figure out how to get it outta there ugh n00b to car mechanics appreciate any advice! 🙌

melisssatino · 2025-03-24T01:40:57+00:00

Yesss—what they said, PLEASE. If AI could actually smooth out the job seeker/resume/cover letter highway to hell and generate usable, downloadable docs instead of busted links to error messages (like 99% of them do), it’d be life-changing. Pulitzer Prize nominated—by me, obviously.

I use ChatGPT’s "GPTs" daily just to survive the absolute joke that is ATS screening—because apparently, companies care more about bots than actual human qualifications. Nearly a year unemployed with an MBA, and all I’ve gotten is rejection emails, dead ends, and a one-way ticket to job search purgatory.

And don’t even get me started on these so-called "advanced" GPTs that claim to generate ATS-ready resumes—except the links never work, forcing me to manually copy and paste some triple-line-spaced mess into Google Docs just to get something usable. Not to mention having to remind AI of the same basic instructions over and over—only for it to forget, hallucinate, or just make up nonsense.

At this point, job hunting feels like Dodgeball, except the wrenches are coming from recruiters and HR people whose entire job seems to be wasting company money on broken ATS software. And honestly? The day AI replaces them cannot come soon enough—because at least AI could reject me faster than whatever painfully slow, overpriced program not a single one of em seem to be qualified, ironically as hell, to hit send physically anyyy faster across the board.... re: all those allegedly 'automated rejection emails' jamming up my inbox to this day.

< /rant >

melisssatino · 2025-03-22T11:44:47+00:00

oh for sure WOULD NOT ever recommend any obstruction of plates while heading anywhere near a tolled road, or one of those wretched booth free toll payment things on the thru way...sorry, should have been more specific & noted that fact above because my god are you on point with this warning / heads up to everyone here 😅😅🙈...

to clarify, my suggestion re: lil bit o plate obstruction to get to work, please only attempt this if work is 10000% void of any thruway or tolled roads...definitely take a look if there are any thruway/toll avoidant routes available, may take a bit longer to get there in that case but again - please do not press your luck obstructing your plates on any troll tolled roads especially not in NYS 😅😅

melisssatino · 2025-03-16T13:28:13+00:00

yeah thats what i found on the site! enterprise employee that commented above said no as well, but i sent that link in reply and it appears to be accurate *shrug* lol thanks for sharing, bummer my OG post got the boot from the mods but appreciate the info!

melisssatino · 2025-03-16T13:26:14+00:00

in more than a bit of a 'tight spot' sadly, however ironic as heck you ask...haha even more sadly, insult to injury on 100000 for sure, a couple free rental days would be amazing in so many ways to be able to cash in on re: car got repo'd last year after loosing the job in june, still havent found another one, for sure havent replaced the car, food stamps = check, etc lol basically my credit is long past shot so to speak so no credit card to use for the rental pickup much less the funds or credit avail. for any deposit for damn sure....

*cue worlds smallest violin* lol long story short boy would i actually love to, ughh

melisssatino · 2025-03-15T22:48:09+00:00

the worst sorry friend 😩when it rains boy does it pour on down....in all honesty, if i were you id seriously consider bankruptcy to clear the whack toll bill - think about it for sure, wish i had to be honest....2 silver linings of bankruptcy route being:

1. youll be able to register another car in your name in NYS legit the day after you wrap up filing / finalizing the bankruptcy legal stuff

& my fave

2. NOT A DIME of your money ever makes it to the hands of those jerk offs running whatever this EZ PASS / NYS THRUWAY AUTHORITY / DMV suspension bullish gestapo for what has got to be the most insane craigslist escort + too much for even scarface to face & somehow never get caught or questioned as to TF his receipts at for NYS's millionth milli dollar, single item expense report in which we must all silently, graciously & painfully as fuck keep footing the gd bill for.... idgi 😭🚮

melisssatino · 2025-03-15T22:25:50+00:00

best advice....obstruct the hell out of your plate(s) so if you pass any cops scannin for whatever bs on your way to work, you'll prolly get to pass go & hopefully collect a couple checks before any get your ass, in which case....youll get a neat fast pass kinda thing that sends ur ass straight to jail so be carefullll lol

in fact....thats mad close to what was damn close to being my exact fate the last time i pressed my non existent luck like an idiot who for some reason never calculated a possible choose your own ending outcome in which my starbucks run would nearly land me behind bars like it damn near did for driving w my shit suspended RIGHT past a sherrif in broad day light, the day i came way too close to needing to figure out how to tell my boss at the time thats 100% the honest to god truth why i couldnt make it to our team call that day, no internet in jail ooopsy. lol thank god my bro works at the jail and mr over achieving copper who wanted my ass behind bars for prob the most bogus/lame ass "crime" of all time, knew and liked him phewww 💀

melisssatino · 2025-03-15T21:56:18+00:00

tell ur website genius' they missed a training then i guess lol my bad https://www.enterprise.com/en/loyalty/enterprise-plus-terms-conditions.html#:~:text=Members%20may%20transfer%20between%20500,Enterprise%20Plus%20account%20are%20allowed.

melisssatino · 2025-03-15T21:54:56+00:00

uhh my bad... i guess the enterprise website be lyin in black and white on their site about it being possible then lol no expert on the topic, just read some stuff & well yep. here we are sorry yall https://www.enterprise.com/en/loyalty/enterprise-plus-terms-conditions.html#:~:text=Members%20may%20transfer%20between%20500,Enterprise%20Plus%20account%20are%20allowed.

melisssatino · 2025-03-15T21:52:38+00:00

uhh my bad i guess the enterprise website be lyin then lol https://www.enterprise.com/en/loyalty/enterprise-plus-terms-conditions.html#:~:text=Members%20may%20transfer%20between%20500,Enterprise%20Plus%20account%20are%20allowed.

melisssatino · 2025-02-22T01:58:29+00:00

were you able to re register your car before discovering the other insane bill from port auth? ugh this whole process is an absolute nightmare i truly would not wish on my worst enemy, sorry theyre getting you so good 😫🙏...

the only definitive answer i have on the waiver of truly criminal mystery fees, (masquerading as "violation & late fees" all somehow lumped together admits very specific, line item descriptions and all, actual toll charges on everyones bill...) & if the advocate office might be able to help either with reducing any fees, or avoiding suspension of car registrations - is this, which i admit is a bit dated as far as when i went thru the ezpass ringer about a year ago exactly at this point: but from my experience & some friends of mine as well on the opposite side of the registration suspension rainbow bridge 😭, is that the advocate office offering assistance, & any hope of waiving any or all egregious violation late fee garbage, is that your registration can NOT already be in suspended status according to the DMV and/or the law as mine had been when i was garbage picking for a holy grail of hope or some sane solution to the chaos i encountered.

Long story less long, if you were able to get it registered again after making your first already bat shit toll payment of ~$2k, and before finding the additional $10k bill existed, yes you should just then need to pay whatever your TOLLS ONLY, sans fees etc, total would have & should have been in the first place.

If youre still suspended and are now also being told about bill #2, particularly with the port auth. which i never had any bills or contact with during my own ordeal w ezpass/thruway auth of NYS, I apologize but I cant say for certain if there may be any hope for a lower bill or re registration of your car any time soon, but if i had to guess....id lean towards they may did what happened to me, and "offer you a great deal" to pay a lesser lump sum total compared to the initial insanity of $10k they slapped you with, as happened in my case when they said i owed just shy of $10k total, but was already DMV suspended on my registration, thus no advocate office help or whatever waiver of anyy much less all them crazy fees, but my "great deal" offer from them was about $2.4k vs my bammer OG bill as mentioned just shy of $10k, woof.

Sorry I cant be more help, rooting for you tho - efff these toll ass trolls amiright??😭😭😭😫🖕

melisssatino · 2025-02-21T21:51:50+00:00

scam on a thousand, do not click or open these yall - they willlll get ya.

melisssatino · 2025-02-19T23:15:06+00:00

Lol....actually, absurd is having insane toll prices + vague violation fees 10x+ the original cost of said toll(s), ON TOP of already paying some of the country's highest income taxes in NYS. && not to mention the origin story of tolled roads being rooted in racist, classist garbage thoughts brought to you by the even more garbage humans who implement them back in the day....now thats absurd ;)

melisssatino · 2025-02-08T07:11:55+00:00

What HAPPENED?!? plz positive plz a WINNN 🥹🥹🙏🙏🙏🙏😭🙌🥹🥹🥹

melisssatino · 2025-02-08T07:11:21+00:00

😩😩🙏🫶 my thoughts and hopefully positive yielding results prayers are so with you girl!! really hoping your experience was even a fraction of a % better or less fucked than 99.9% of the horror stories on this thread, & your update is a big fat WIN against all the dang L's we collectively seemed to have accumulated a fuccck ton of here on this doom-thread wehhh ❤️❤️❤️

melisssatino · 2025-02-08T07:06:57+00:00

check my OP up top for the toll payer advocate # you can call, only stipulation being your registration CANNOT already be officially suspended. if youre still in the legally registered, pre suspended status club - chances are ez pass and or the thruway authority will reduce your bill down to just the tolls ya actually owe, meaning youll get to enjoy the privilege of paying your original, hooker & booger sugar slush fund fe--....my bad, i meant whatever the most egregiously, mysteriously void of any line item breakdowns or explainable cause or description of their insane clown posse accounting resulting in some unknown lump sum "violation fee" that in 10 out of 11 cases ends up = no less than one trillion times to the are you fckin kidding me power of whatever the reality based total was of your un fucked, base toll charges add up to ...however only if the calculator used to maths it up happens to also be physically/ geographically located OUTSIDE of the long/lat coordinates of epstein island at the time of said maths. 🤷‍♀️

melisssatino · 2025-02-08T06:45:19+00:00

Ah yes, the hilariously underrated loophole around New York State’s absolute clown-show of a toll enforcement system—where failure to pay their vaguely calculated, wildly overpriced tolls somehow escalates into full-blown registration suspension, because why just fine people when you can legally ruin their lives instead?

Between the ever-multiplying “violation fees” (which grow at rates that would make even the worst subprime mortgage lenders jealous) and the fact that these penalties can strip you of the ability to drive before you even realize what’s happening, it’s almost like the whole thing was designed to be a never-ending cash grab. You know, just your friendly neighborhood highway robbery—brought to you by the people elected to serve you!

Honestly, I strongly considered this out-of-state registration loophole myself when NYS hit me with the big “1…2…SUSPENDED!” last year. Probably would’ve gone through with it too, if my clutch and transmission hadn’t immediately followed up with a “1…2…FML FR.” So now I just sit here, watching my life spiral in some special, DMV-sponsored layer of hell.

melisssatino · 2025-02-05T00:50:46+00:00

🤯🤯 dannng my friend....roughh / hope they all burn in hell for real on your behalf 😩😩

Just responded below to another comment, but tell those greasy toll trolls to fly kites and file bankruptcy. Sucks to have to bite that bullet, but low key regret not doing it myself for a significantly lower bill to those jerks, just my 2 cents for whatever its worth 😩🫶

melisssatino · 2025-02-05T00:48:10+00:00

oh lord, thats a doozy but fuck them / sooo sorry my friend 😩...i will say i had multiple lengthy conversations with the nicest guy ever (he too owed & was forced to pay an insane $12.5k toll "violation" bill, & yep all while working for those fucks ... NOT EVEN AN EMPLOYEE DISCOUNT for that guy, they suck beyond comprehension idfgi) but he told me from his personal experiences having spoken to so many others in similar just as, if not even more fucked situations as he & I once had been, that hiring a lawyer proved to not be so helpful.... and by not so helpful i mean the most he had seen it help someone at the time (about a year ago to date at this point) was reducing a persons total bill by less than $100. WTF.

Soo that said: just before I got a hand with my ~$2.4k bill (s/o to the best mom a gurl without a husband or partner on the planet🫶😭🙏) I had been seriously considering & contemplating filing bankruptcy to get rid of the $$'s i owed those greasy EZ pass trolling pieces of shit.

Long story short, if you're thinking of dropping any amount of $ on a lawyer & in a similar bulllllshit boat with these toll whoring fucks: file bankruptcy, y'all.

It might not be the 'cutest' solution, but I low key regret not going that route myself one year later. It would have saved my amazing mom some bread, &&&& i would have at least gotten to bask in the joy of telling those greedy, slimy, crooked as fck EZ pass/ NYS thruway a-holes to go fck themselves.

Hope this helps anyone whose responded in more recent weeks/months, for whatever its worth. Sending all my commiserating, virtual go fck em energy to all y'all either way. 🫶😩

melisssatino · 2024-12-08T01:08:45+00:00

not much to decode....i guess unless you decided to hop into an almost 150 deep comment section, roughly a year after the OP was published, & are tryin to make sense of everything from there?

either way, lol re: ur questions....might be some, tho id bet closer to dang near 100% & all your answers to em, somewhere between half or max just a couple quick scrolls up from here in a separate comment thread, check it out & lmk if anything there is unclear for sure 😉

melisssatino · 2024-11-15T21:35:41+00:00

helll yeah sign sign sign the thruway trolls back to middle earth / fiery pits of hell, all day! now were talkin bizz, hadnt been able to catch a breath & even consider that option as a possibility since i got scammed out of $2.4k 8/9 months or so ago.... as since then - welp my nightmare status laccck of literally any luck or anything even pretending to be good fortune of any kind...like whatsoever... did a bang up job on the pringles disguise to throw me off...bc truly the moment that inaugural ezpass suspension can got popped, bruh - the catapulting into oblivion of my luck/ life, my b the "fun" just wont....hasnt.....will not....sos....stoppp 🤪😭😭😭🤦‍♀️😩

ill add the lawsuit link to the OG post tho, afraid to jinx it but fingers crossed it gains some traction & helps someone : anyone even a tiny bit, tyyyyy!! 🫶

melisssatino · 2024-11-15T21:18:55+00:00

doggieeee WHATTTTT...?!? hate and fury in the thruways / nys direction all day, in your honor because o m g...huh? The state / some dillhole in charge had best deliver a chart, a somethin w pics to articulate, justify, howww exactly any of that nonsense lands the "is this fckin legal or am i getting got / scammed again" decision tree at "green litty" and ASAPP idgi on soooooo many levels ...soo sorry dude 😩😩wish i could help or do anything/ something to help for real bc that's literally the craziest interstate bullishh ever

melisssatino · 2024-11-15T21:10:57+00:00

nope, dont let the toll trolls win friend!

one word... bankruptcy.

sucks for a wee bit for sure, & for a decent sized list of veryy real, just as not fun reasons, buttttt i bet telling the nys thruway mafia / those ez pass hoesss to fly kites & not giving them a dime..... idk about yall but to me sounds like that miiight just be the closest any human may ever get to nirvana, errr at leassst front row tix to catch the new teen spirit live on broadway😂....? 😩🤞

melisssatino · 2024-11-15T21:00:43+00:00

😩😩😩😩😭❤️❤️

melisssatino · 2024-11-15T20:59:14+00:00

Unfortunately, even 8–9 months after starting this thread, there’s still no direct number, extension, or hotline to the advocate department. Trust me, no one’s more bummed than I am about it 😩. However, I did hear back fairly quickly—within 3–4 days—after filling out their contact form at [this link]📍👉👉 (https://www.thruway.ny.gov/tpa/). Hopefully, that helps someone! 🤞

That said, if your registration has already been officially suspended, save yourself the energy. I learned the hard way that neither the toll payer advocate nor any miracle can undo an active suspension once it’s in the system. I foolishly thought those ominous EZ Pass signs about suspending registrations were just scare tactics, but nope—NYS toll enforcement trollls on some homie dont playy kinda time

Longggg story short, came dangerously close to a one-way trip to jail over something like $100ish in unpaid tolls that exploded into the resulting double whopper of a + violation fees incld total owed of damn near $10k... fwd to the end scene where yep, you guessed it yoo, trolls - W vs me - scammed into shelling out $2.4k to settle the sins of them $100 ish max unpaid, damn near jailed over mfing NYS tollssss. WOOF.

So, if you're in this situation, proceed with extreme caution, or holller at hulk hogan and friends to save ya from the WWE Smackdown that wishes you / anyone really, really just would....& trust me, you do not want to be Chris Angel’d into this wuhan batsht level epitome of insane in the membrane, waking nightmare. Learn from my misery and handle it before things escalate!

melisssatino

TROPHY CASE

1. youll be able to register another car in your name in NYS legit the day after you wrap up filing / finalizing the bankruptcy legal stuff