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They said it would be back. And lo and behold, it is back! Life of Riley returns, if not better than ever, certainly looking every bit as good as it was.
My car troubles are basically solved. I took the car out to Jiffy Lube earlier this afternoon intending to get an oil change. (I fibbed to my mother a while back and told her that I was doing this before I took the car out here in the first place, but what's done is done.) While that was accomplished I had them disconnect the battery on the advice of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pax_malificus, intending to reset the computer. That way if there was really a problem the check engine light would come back on. I was also talked into replacing the transmission fluids by the boys at JL.
So I drove the car away feeling pretty good, particularly because the check engine light did not, in fact, come back on. The only downside is that now the stereo doesn't work. A quick perusal of the owner's manual confirms that I need to enter a five-digit code in order to reactivate it. The code is nowhere to be found (at least, its not with all my car-related stuff in my glovebox.) Ostensibly it can be retrieved by the folks at a Honda dealership if I have the radio's serial number. Maybe I should call Mitchell (the dealership from whom I bought the car) before I panic too much. But the thought of driving back across the country with no tunes is depressing.
DCP tonight, wherejrdameonhv promises me an NPC flavor of the week to keep me entertained for a couple hours. Then I will eat, drink and be merry and bid all the NU kiddies a fond farewell -- because tomorrow morning (again, barring catastrophic weather event) I'm headed back to Connecticut. Here we go.
My car troubles are basically solved. I took the car out to Jiffy Lube earlier this afternoon intending to get an oil change. (I fibbed to my mother a while back and told her that I was doing this before I took the car out here in the first place, but what's done is done.) While that was accomplished I had them disconnect the battery on the advice of
pax_malificus, intending to reset the computer. That way if there was really a problem the check engine light would come back on. I was also talked into replacing the transmission fluids by the boys at JL.So I drove the car away feeling pretty good, particularly because the check engine light did not, in fact, come back on. The only downside is that now the stereo doesn't work. A quick perusal of the owner's manual confirms that I need to enter a five-digit code in order to reactivate it. The code is nowhere to be found (at least, its not with all my car-related stuff in my glovebox.) Ostensibly it can be retrieved by the folks at a Honda dealership if I have the radio's serial number. Maybe I should call Mitchell (the dealership from whom I bought the car) before I panic too much. But the thought of driving back across the country with no tunes is depressing.
DCP tonight, where
jrdameonhv promises me an NPC flavor of the week to keep me entertained for a couple hours. Then I will eat, drink and be merry and bid all the NU kiddies a fond farewell -- because tomorrow morning (again, barring catastrophic weather event) I'm headed back to Connecticut. Here we go.