So you are not the only one with car issues...I'll start at the beginning...
I had Tony's TV and PlayStation 3 in the back of my car one day, I had to work, and so I was going to take it to the post office when Bayani went down for her nap. I locked my car obviously, and when 1:30-2:00 came around, and I walked out to my car to hit the post office, I forgot I locked my car and I went and torqued on my door to open it. Realizing within half a second I had locked it, it started "honking" at me...I thought "oh, it has an alarm? Hhhmmm..." and I got my key out and unlocked my doors...the beeping didn't shut off. Eventually it just shut off, it sounded random, like a wire wasn't quite connected all the way, so sometimes it would be a constant sound, and sometimes it would just sputter...very annoying.
But it stopped, and didn't do it again for a little while.
Skip forward to about a week and a half ago; I was driving to Will and Rebecca's house because Will said he finally got me a passenger side window motor that my car hasn't had for the entire time I've owned the car. I was almost there and it started beeping again, I felt awful, as I was pulling up to a stop sign and somebody was in front of me. It continued to do it for about a block, and then it just stopped. I got there, and the motor he got ended up not being the correct motor. Bummer. But, since I was there, I was going to stay to at least Rebecca could spend time with Bayani. I got in my car to go drive to get myself something to eat. I got about 3 houses down and it started beeping again. I turned around and pulled in Will's driveway and just sat there for a second. He came out right before it stopped and he thought, "hey, maybe it's just your horn malfunctioning. I'll unplug your horn." And he did. It didn't do it for a week until Monday, where at 8am I woke up to somebody honking outside. Go figure, it took me a minute, but it was my car.
I ignored it. There wasn't anything I could do about it, I can walk out there and kick the car all I want, it won't do any good. It shut off, and that was all it did for the day. I called Will and told him what happened, but he probably didn't listen to his voice mail, because he never does, so he never returned my phone call. But it hadn't done it again since Monday, until today...
I first heard it about 9:30, right before mom came over to pick up Trixie to go to work. I rolled my eyes and turned on the TV. But it didn't just sputter and turn off. It would beep for a couple seconds, then shut off. Then beep again for a few seconds, then sputter, then shut off. It was going on and off literally all day today. After Bayani went down for her nap I went out there, as it was going off, AGAIN, to see if I could isolate where in the car it was located...I think I have it narrowed down to driver side-center, towards the bumper...but of course, once I got out there, it stopped. And for the 15-20 minutes I was out there, total silence. Some dude who said he was painting the newly empty apartment below mine , who was sitting in his van eating his lunch, came over and started poking around. He said something along the lines of how he's been hearing it going off all day, I said I was sorry, and that I didn't know what to do about it. He gave up, and I gave up, but first I called Will, and he said you just need to find it and cut a stupid wire. But I just have to find it first. I called dad, he said he'd look at it today, then I called Elsa, my landlady, and warned her that my car is being stupid and if anybody calls and complains about my stupid car being stupid loud and I stupid can't stupid fix it. She said it was OK. (As long as I hurried up and got it fixed soon.)
So I get here to work, it continues to go off after I get here. At 4 mom was going to leave to take mini-kitty to the vet, and she walks back in and says, "Miranda, your car is going off again..." And of course, because I am so frustrated, I say "If kicking it would fix it, I would have already broken my toes! " So I walked out there with her and I see dad running up to it, which excited me, as it was constantly beeping. Dad crawled under it, and I ran up and popped the hooded and Dad started poking around, as it blared quite loudly at us, he pushed on something, which made the sound fluctuate. He had found the box!!! This literally happened in the middle of me typing this blog, by the way. He pried the metal box open and pulled a wire and poof. Silence. I'm excited. I really hope that is what we supposed to pull, I'll be sad if my car doesn't start when I go to leave today...
