{"id":28527,"date":"2011-03-13T20:43:49","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T00:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=28527"},"modified":"2020-06-25T20:47:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T00:47:19","slug":"yet-more-car-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=28527","title":{"rendered":"Yet more car irony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, I exhibited a bit of urgency in selling my old car and acquiring what I’m driving now, because of time-sensitive nature of the necessity of emissions testing and car tag renewals.\u00a0 I had a check engine light on in my old Sentra that was O2 sensor-related; both circumstances which would have easily led to failing any emissions test, that would have necessitated an expensive repair of the O2 sensor, for a car on its last legs.\u00a0 So in a way, it was a persistent check engine light that ultimately resulted in the decision to get a new car.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, coming home from the airport in the lemon, the check engine light came on while I was driving through a Dunkin’ Donuts for some coffee.\u00a0 Yippee.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m hoping it’s just a false alarm from god-knows-what reasoning, and that it’ll be gone the next time I start up my car, but I really highly fucking doubt it.\u00a0 And the best part is that I still have two years left to pay on this piece of shit, so no escape clause available this time around.\u00a0 Just can’t win with the lemon, apparently.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year, I exhibited a bit of urgency in selling my old car and acquiring what I’m driving now, because of time-sensitive nature of the necessity of emissions testing and car tag renewals.\u00a0 I had a check engine light on in my old Sentra that was O2 sensor-related; both circumstances which would have easily led … Continue reading Yet more car irony<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,45,15,49],"class_list":["post-28527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cars","tag-fail","tag-og","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28527"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28543,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28527\/revisions\/28543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}