"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
03/13/2016 at 03:36 • Filed to: None
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"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
03/13/2016 at 03:36 • Filed to: None | 1
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Sitting in the garage tonight, I did a dumb thing.
I was playing around with my Tactrix cable and trying to get it to interface with some sketchy software called ETACS Decoder. I’ve been annoyed by the TMPS light and don’t really want to take it to a dealer to have the TPMS changed every single time I swap wheels (which is pretty often). The Lancer only holds one set of wheels at a time.
With the ignition on, it connected to my phone (which was upstairs) and was playing a podcast while I debugged.
So I was sitting in the car with the door open, going through all the debug stuff with Windows drivers - I never did get it (nor the ELM 327 USB) to connect properly - when suddenly everything went dead.
I totally lost track of time and forgot that I had the Braille lightweight battery in the car. Now the battery is on the charger and I feel like an idiot. I wasn’t reading or writing from the ECU when it went poof, but damn.
vwbeamer
> Nick Has an Exocet
03/13/2016 at 07:43 |
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Happens. Everyone who has worked on a car has done something stupid, it's normal. BTW, when most people screw up they hide it, and don't tell everyone...LOL. Don't be so hard on yourself, it's just a car.
gmporschenut also a fan of hondas
> Nick Has an Exocet
03/13/2016 at 10:31 |
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I once mixed up the axle grease port with the bearing grease port and put about 20 pumps of grease into it thinking “damn this is low”. I then learned how to take a disc brake apart.
XJDano
> Nick Has an Exocet
03/13/2016 at 11:28 |
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If you can, set the TPMS to zero, then it'll never set off the idiot light, but you'll have to manually monitor the pressures.
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Nick Has an Exocet
> XJDano
03/13/2016 at 16:08 |
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Yeah, I’m used to manually monitoring anyways. If I could get the damn software to recognize my driver, I absolutely would.