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from the department of Well, *that* figures --
so i took the car down to the garage on the corner after work this evening. the conversation went like this:
so the problem with the brake switch, apparently, has to do primarily with the cruise control. if the brake switch is faulty, when you hit the brakes it won't cut off the circuit and you'll keep on cruising in a controlled fashion, only controlled by the car instead of by you, which at that point would be a bad thing. i never use my cruise control, so i'm not in danger of this happening -- but i am still in danger of the brake light not going on when i step on the brake, which is its own sort of problem, so the guy says i should take it to the dealer anyway.
when i get in the car to go pick up a couple of groceries before returning home, guess what happens?
no points for guessing correctly: yeah, the check engine light didn't come on.
le sigh. i'm taking it down in the morning anyway. i suspect this is the very-slightly-cracked hose or something i didn't have fixed last august, at the end of the Summer Of Car Troubles, finally coming home to roost.
me: i have two questions. i expect i know the answers to both of them, but i'm going to ask anyway.
guy: okay.
me: one, my check engine light has been on for a couple of days, and i wonder if someone can look at that, and i think you're going to say not now, because the shop is closed.
guy: that's correct.
me: fair enough. and two, i have this recall notice about the brake switch, and i think you're going to say you're not the dealership, so you can't be the one to fix that for me.
guy: right again.
so the problem with the brake switch, apparently, has to do primarily with the cruise control. if the brake switch is faulty, when you hit the brakes it won't cut off the circuit and you'll keep on cruising in a controlled fashion, only controlled by the car instead of by you, which at that point would be a bad thing. i never use my cruise control, so i'm not in danger of this happening -- but i am still in danger of the brake light not going on when i step on the brake, which is its own sort of problem, so the guy says i should take it to the dealer anyway.
when i get in the car to go pick up a couple of groceries before returning home, guess what happens?
no points for guessing correctly: yeah, the check engine light didn't come on.
le sigh. i'm taking it down in the morning anyway. i suspect this is the very-slightly-cracked hose or something i didn't have fixed last august, at the end of the Summer Of Car Troubles, finally coming home to roost.