Welcome To Case's Column
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.
In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Four Things Your Writer Never Knew About His Car
Posted 08-23-2020 at 12:05 PM by case44
In the parlance of life's happenings, we discover that we learn something new every day. And such was the case last week as the mystery surrounding tire pressures suddenly got solved.
I'm a huge Discount Tire customer and will continue to be for life, but this guy couldn't believe that a certain diagnosis for a tire pressure problem was not previously solved at two other locations a couple of months ago. A third location which I've stopped at to remedy a tire pressure situation when a new problem had come up needed a visit, and this was following a brief road trip on my days off from work. Funny how that tire light just kept going on and off, and repeating on four occasions in two days. Turns out, I had been driving with a nail in my tire, and that end was resolved. However, there was something else....
There were four locations on my car that I didn't know existed until that visit last week. Each location was embedded in each tire for my Toyota. There were tire pressure sensors that were on my car. So, now I know how inflation or deflation gets the reading on my dash. Well, the programmers in one sensor had petered out, prompting the need to replace it. A second test was done after the replacement and it turns out that another sensor had its programmer fritz out on us.
Oh, great! Guess what I ended up having to do??
Certainly, there wasn't any choice. I had to force myself to replace all four of my car's tire sensors, in addition to when the advisor told me that the other three were not from having to be replaced. That's right. Every last one of them! Since the car I currently drive is nine years old (with me actually owning it for eight years), such a command was actually due. So, now, all of the mysteries with the intermittent tire pressure lights going nuts can legitimately be put to rest. Imagine if we'd just nipped this in the bud on my San Angelo trip a few months back. Then again, this is a $200 hit.
On my next Toyota, I'll need to make a point just remind myself on a calendar to replace all four tire pressure sensors once my car reaches 175,000 miles, whether it needs such changes or not. Hey, better safe than sorry.
I'm a huge Discount Tire customer and will continue to be for life, but this guy couldn't believe that a certain diagnosis for a tire pressure problem was not previously solved at two other locations a couple of months ago. A third location which I've stopped at to remedy a tire pressure situation when a new problem had come up needed a visit, and this was following a brief road trip on my days off from work. Funny how that tire light just kept going on and off, and repeating on four occasions in two days. Turns out, I had been driving with a nail in my tire, and that end was resolved. However, there was something else....
There were four locations on my car that I didn't know existed until that visit last week. Each location was embedded in each tire for my Toyota. There were tire pressure sensors that were on my car. So, now I know how inflation or deflation gets the reading on my dash. Well, the programmers in one sensor had petered out, prompting the need to replace it. A second test was done after the replacement and it turns out that another sensor had its programmer fritz out on us.
Oh, great! Guess what I ended up having to do??
Certainly, there wasn't any choice. I had to force myself to replace all four of my car's tire sensors, in addition to when the advisor told me that the other three were not from having to be replaced. That's right. Every last one of them! Since the car I currently drive is nine years old (with me actually owning it for eight years), such a command was actually due. So, now, all of the mysteries with the intermittent tire pressure lights going nuts can legitimately be put to rest. Imagine if we'd just nipped this in the bud on my San Angelo trip a few months back. Then again, this is a $200 hit.
On my next Toyota, I'll need to make a point just remind myself on a calendar to replace all four tire pressure sensors once my car reaches 175,000 miles, whether it needs such changes or not. Hey, better safe than sorry.
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