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Tue Jan 03, 2012 8:53 pm
Just wondering if anyone can help me with this dilemma:
It's 11 degrees outside and my '96 J30 decides to have fun with me.
I was unable to unlock the driver's door with my key (since I don't have a remote). I walk over to my passenger door and unlock the car from there. Good, I can get in because the windchill factor is taking a lot of my attention. As soon as I unlock the car, the alarm sounds. TI get in out of the wind but not out of the cold. There is also no way to start the car while the alarm is activated. So, I sit for a minute and wonder if I will ever see my warm home again.
After 5 minutes or so, the alarm stops and I attempt to get in the car. But, as soon as I open the door, the alarm sounds again. I'm shivering so bad, I'm getting stomach cramps.
I've tried different things to cancel the alarm. I've tried locking and unlocking the driver's door. I even did it five times consecutively. I've tried re-locking the car from the passenger side, but than I am back at the driver's side with no way to unlock the car. I'm scratching the paint job trying to keep my shivering hand still enough to insert the key in the door lock.
I've tried doing all of the above with driver's door window open where I can at least try to start the car by leaning in. That did not work nor did the same idea work through the passenger side window. It's getting cold, hypothermia is setting in.
I even though about opening the hood and disconnecting the battery to hopefully re-set the system but silly me, last time I worked on the car, I made sure that the battery terminals were good and tight. So, that was futile. I closed the hood with my arms as my frozen hands were too numb.
I'm getting dizzy now and the passing cars are increasing the chill factor by an extra -10 degrees.
I try once again to see if the car will start. but all it does is sit there with all of the engine lights brightly lit and taunting me as if to say, it will live on and I will perish.
With last will and energy, I think that maybe the neutral safety switch is on the fritz, so I turn the ignition on, shift into neutral and try to start. No sound. car will just sit there and flash the headlights rhythmically. The pain is going away now, and I am starting to feel kind of sublime. I am thinking of palm trees and bikini-clad women serving me colorful drinks with little umbrellas. I hear no sounds from the car (by the way, my horn doesn't word, thankfully), but I hear the azur waves crashing on the coral reefs and washing up on the pristine ivory sands.
All is good now.
Flashing lights of a wrecker are nearing as I end these words....
Ralph