I did a thing

"smobgirl" (smobgirl) 08/25/2018 at 22:29 • Filed to: None

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And I found the keys to my high school car in the process.

Pull the ancient carpet out of my spare bedroom.

I’m supposedly getting the floor in here and two other downstairs rooms replaced with vinyl plank soon. We’ll see.

jimz > smobgirl 08/25/2018 at 22:38

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ah, the day when GM used separate ignition and door/trunk keys.  

Honeybunchesofgoats > jimz 08/25/2018 at 22:43

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My Jag and my Town Car both had separate valet keys that wouldn’t unlock the trunk/glove compartment. So, Ford letbthatgo for a while. 

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > smobgirl 08/25/2018 at 22:44

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That subfloor is in good condition.

I did the vinyl flooring in my old bonus room. I would say that there are pros and cons, but it was something I could do myself and was (comparatively) affordable. The bigger cons... quirks?... we’re that in some cases it could take abuse, but stuff like a chair with skinny legs would leave dents and while dog claws didn’t seem to harm it, sliding a tote or carboard box could score the damn things.

Tohru > smobgirl 08/25/2018 at 22:46

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I have vinyl woodgrain laminate in my bedroom and it sucks. The only positive is desk chairs work nice on it.

smobgirl > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/25/2018 at 22:48

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Yeah, I’m mostly favoring it because a lot of the floor downstairs isn’t level (with in very short distances). I think they may have ripped out the entire original floor to put permanent jacks under the house, and a few areas settled pretty oddly. Vinyl should at least bend a bit...and absorb a lot less dog pee than the cheap laminate.

smobgirl > Tohru 08/25/2018 at 22:52

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Yeah, it’s not really my favorite but besides hardwood (which wouldn’t work down here) its my least hated option :) 

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > smobgirl 08/25/2018 at 22:54

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That’s the biggest plus: vinyl is waterproof wherea s laminate is merely resistant. And should water find its way into the pourous laminate somehow, ho boy.

Goggles Pizzano > smobgirl 08/25/2018 at 22:55

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Was it a C hevy?

smobgirl > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/25/2018 at 22:56

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Yep. This dog is getting pretty expensive.

smobgirl > Goggles Pizzano 08/25/2018 at 22:58

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‘81 sedan deville.

And I have no idea what these keys are made of, but they’re super light and ridiculously strong.

They were MUCH better to run with than modern  key fobs.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > smobgirl 08/25/2018 at 23:06

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You have my sympathies... I have a cat whom I sometimes resent, as I've spent more on cleaning, special medication, special food, carpet, furniture, etc. than actual vehicles.

Goggles Pizzano > smobgirl 08/25/2018 at 23:06

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One for the doors and one for the ignition til ‘96 somethin ’ ? WTF. Worst lock and key system ever. :-)x

Chariotoflove > smobgirl 08/25/2018 at 23:12

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Sedan DeVille for your high school car? Perfect.

Obviously not the original keys. I remember my grandparents’ Caddy keys. They were gold plated. Old American luxury.

Good luck with the floor.  Anything’s better than carpet past its prime.

smobgirl > Chariotoflove 08/25/2018 at 23:17

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Yeah, we paid $200 for the car, I’m sure the original keys were long gone. The car was far from perfect but considering we never fixed anything on it, it’s impressive just how much of the electronics were still working after 15+ years. 

smobgirl > Goggles Pizzano 08/25/2018 at 23:18

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I don’t even remember, but I clearly wasn’t using the round one nearly as often. We lived in the middle of the country so I bet I rarely locked the doors.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > smobgirl 08/25/2018 at 23:22

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Anodized aluminum, I should think.

smobgirl > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo 08/25/2018 at 23:26

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I should’ve figured aluminum. I’m just surprised how tough they are because I know I’ve bent house keys and broke a spare key to my old Civic, and car locks back then felt  much heavier.

Goggles Pizzano > smobgirl 08/25/2018 at 23:27

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RacinBob > smobgirl 08/25/2018 at 23:39

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They looked just like out ‘71 olds 98.... The car I learned to drive on. 

smobgirl > RacinBob 08/25/2018 at 23:51

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Now I’m curious if our Vista Cruiser keys were similar. Thankful I didn’t have to learn in that!

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > smobgirl 08/26/2018 at 00:53

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It’s an ‘81.  What electronics?

Steve in Manhattan > smobgirl 08/26/2018 at 01:18

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I wonder where the car is ...? Often wonder where my ‘91 CRX Si is - wrecked, riced, still in it’s original nick?

Cé hé sin > smobgirl 08/26/2018 at 08:05

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Ah, keys.

I as reading somewhere the other day about how Ford introduced double sided keys for the Mk2 Cortina in the 1960s. They would unlock the Cortina. Not just yours, but everyone else’s too.

My mother had a Mk1 E scort which my brother used to unlock with a lollipop stick.

smobgirl > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 08/26/2018 at 08:10

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Well the seat adjusters, primarily (AHEM every ten year old “luxury” car I’ve been in lately)  But you could punch through a little computer that calculated mpg and all of that mess.

smobgirl > Steve in Manhattan 08/26/2018 at 08:12

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Ah, we scrapped it a year or so after I went to college. It had some terminal issues - leaked transmission fluid like a sieve and would sometimes  cut off at highway speeds and wouldn’t restart.

Steve in Manhattan > smobgirl 08/26/2018 at 16:39

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Recall that those also had the much-reviled V8-6-4 - a lot of people just had it deactivated.

shop-teacher > RacinBob 08/30/2018 at 13:59

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Pretty much every GM vehicle from about that time, until the mid 90's, used these same key blanks.

Party-vi > smobgirl 08/31/2018 at 13:34

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THIS THREAD IS OLD that sounds like an EGR valve problem.

smobgirl > Party-vi 08/31/2018 at 13:39

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Could be. The transmission leak eventually gummed itself back up again but we weren’t going to fix it when no one actually wanted to drive it. I got a 280ZX turbo next, what an upgrade :)