The Sploder barely started last night as i went to leave the office.
And didn’t start at all when I got in after getting gas last night.
So I asked the gas station owner if he had one of those little jumpstarty things, but he did not. And when I went back out, another patron who had heard my plight had met me in the lot with his car, and got me started, so I drove right to Autozone and put in a new battery.
It was nice to have someone just come right up and offer to help. It restores your faith in humanity. THIS is why I always do the same sort of thing for others. For the first time in my life, it paid off for me.
Giving him a blowjob would probably just have been too much.
Giving him a blowjob would probably just have been too much.
Strange that buying him a beer wasn’t your first choice.
I always carry jumper cables even though I don’t have trouble (Toyota batteries don’t die and leave you stranded). So I look for people driving Fords that I can help. There are plenty of them.
Lol. Hale: when your Toyota has 1/4 the miles of my explorer, it will fall off the frame. And I will use my still running ford to drag the bushel of rust to the junkyard, and still carry 4 passengers in comfort. 15 year old battery. Motorcraft. Still got the check engine light on the Toyota, huh?
Also: I don’t drink, and I don’t buy beer. I hope to demonstrate why to you someday. And the guy who gave me a jump was driving a Ford Crown Vic. Takes more than a couple AA batteries to start a real engine.
First car I owned was a Toyota Corolla. A great little car that took me across the country more than once as I went from duty station to duty station.
While adjusting to my first winter in Texas, back in ’77 (said Toyota would have been about 2 and a half years old) I had the “pleasure” of finding out just what kind of batteries are installed in these little foreign jobs …..
Warm weather ones.
Any time the temp dipped below the 32 degree mark…she would start right off with no problem…but would die after running for a min or so (this was with a full tank of gas so it wasn’t a fuel pump…or frozen gas issue). As soon as it got above freezing….it ran like a top. Drop below 32 and there it goes again. Turns out it was a bad cell (or so they tell me). With a new battery installed….this never occurred again…and I had that car for at least another 7 years.
On the other hand….that was the only real problem I ever had with that car. She was a dependable ride in all other aspects….and that five speed was a hoot to drive.
Just replaced the 13 year old motorcraft battery in my F150. After this past winter and parking outside and only driving on the weekends I’m not bitching.
I was with you up till the last line.
although I can understand the relief from getting a serious problem resolved with ease.
You’re just trying to get revenge, aren’t you?
:D
Up in the YouPee, where there are REAL winters, when I used to go on nuke alert for a week, I’d take the Toyota Hilux’ battery into the Mole Hole with me. A week later, it always started on a room-temp battery, even well below zero outside. Then I would jump some other trucks whose USAF owners didn’t get with the program.
The Toyota things is all about Toyota usually building a very balanced charging system. Really good 5W20 oil helped, too.
Never hurts to offer…