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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: crashwg on April 09, 2011, 11:35:36 pm

Title: Why do today when you can put it off for years at a time.
Post by: crashwg on April 09, 2011, 11:35:36 pm

For over 3 years now I've owned my current vehicle, a Dodge Grand Caravan (sweet ride huh?)  So from day one when we bought it, the passenger side power sliding door was unpowered, as in when you push a button on the remote, on the pillar or overhead in the front seat the door is meant to open and shut but wouldn't.  I immediately checked it off in my mental to do list as "beyond my skill set" and acknowledged that it would probably never be fixed since the door still opened manually and I wasn't about to pay $200 for the convenience of the automation.  Fast forward to today.  I decided to google the problem and see what it really would entail.  Turns out it's a fairly common problem.  There's a cable chain that runs in the door track which commonly has wires fail for whatever reason.  Wires I can do!  So I popped that bad boy open and lo and behold there it was, a wire clearly broken in not one but two places!  20 minutes later (most of that time running an extension cord and getting my soldering stuff ready) I've bridged the gap and the door functions like never before.

Point being, well I don't know.  Take from this tale whatever lesson you wish.  I was just excited and wanted to share with whoever will listen (or read  :P)

Title: Re: Why do today when you can put it off for years at a time.
Post by: danny_galaga on April 10, 2011, 01:27:21 am

Wait 3 years to fix anything- CHECK!!

Title: Re: Why do today when you can put it off for years at a time.
Post by: Thenasty on April 10, 2011, 01:39:07 am

I learned that years and years ago  :P

Bottom line is, it will be fixed  ;D

Title: Re: Why do today when you can put it off for years at a time.
Post by: bobotech on April 10, 2011, 03:38:19 am

LOL  nice.

I bought my old Crystal Castles cab  to butcher into a MAME cab about 10 years ago.  Still sitting in my garage waiting for me to gut out and replace the control panel.

Someday.

Title: Re: Why do today when you can put it off for years at a time.
Post by: SavannahLion on April 10, 2011, 02:41:23 pm

There's been times where I couldn't fix something simply because I didn't have enough information to fix it. These projects, like yours, eventually get fixed... once I actually remember to fix it down the road.

Conversely, there have been times where I did have the information but not the incentive to fix it. Unfortunately, wait too long on these and the parts (if any) become obsolete and the item becomes near impossible or too expensive to fix.

Title: Re: Why do today when you can put it off for years at a time.
Post by: Thenasty on April 10, 2011, 09:45:36 pm

sometimes you put it aside for fixing, then years later, it fixed by itself  ;D