Showing posts with label HONDA ELEMENT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HONDA ELEMENT. Show all posts

Saturday, August 23, 2025

FRI AUG 22, 2025- HONDA ELEMENTALTERNATOR WENT OUT. KAPUT

 LATE IN DAY, before dark  I DROVE TO PUBLIX GROCERY STORE.

ODD, THE DASHBOARD OF THE ELEMENT THE AIRBAG LIGHT WAS ON! NEVER HAVE SEEN THAT.

BATTERY LIGHT AGAIN. IT DID SHOW ONCE LAST WEEK AS I RECALL.

BUT IT IS A NEW BATTERY ONLY A FEW MONTHS OLD.

I PULLED IN THE PUBLIX LOT AND PARKED.

ELECTRICAL SYSTEM OF CAR WENT OUT!

BATTERY SEEMED DEAD.

WENT INTO THE GROCERY STORE TO GET FOOD, SUPPLIES FOR DINNER.

AND TO SEE IF SOMEONE, A FELLOW SHOPPER,

OR A STORE MGR MIGHT ASSIST TO JUMP START THE BATTERY OF MY ELEMENT.


LONGER STORY FOR LATER.

MIGHT WELL BE MUCH EASIER TO BLOG FROM CELLPHONE...

SINCE NOW MY NEW CELLHONE SHOWED ME A HACKED NOTICE...

AND SURVEILLANCE IS ONGOING FOR US ALL.

SOME MORE THAN OTHERS!


LATER AFTER DARK I CONTACTED  MAV, 

MAV, PATRICK, AND DANTE CAME OVER IN MAV'S TRUCK TO JUMPSTART MY VEHICLE.

WE FINALLY HAD TO LEAVE MY JUMPER CABLES CONNECTED TO BOTH VEHICLES  FOR A FEW MINUTES.

I JUMPED INTO MY PASSENGER SEAT, ANDS LET DANTE DRIVE MY VEHICLE TO CAMP.

MAV AND PATRICK FOLLOWED IN MAV'S TRUCK.

WE GOT MY VEHICLE ALMOST TO MY TENT. 

THEN THEY HAD TO PUSH IT THE LAST BIT, WHILE I STEERED.

I STILL HAD TO GET THE DRIVER'S SIDE WINDOW UP, 

SO THEY RE-ATTACHED MY JUMPER CABLES TO THE TRUCK.

GOT THE WINDOW UO.

AFTER  THAT DANTE AND PATRICK WENT TO THEIR OWN CAMP SITE.

MAV STAYED AND SPOKE A LITTLE.

THEN HE DROVE HIS TRUCK BACK TO HIS CAMPSITE.

I TOOK MY TIME TO CALM DOWN.

LOOKED ALL OVER FOR MY JUMPER CABLES.

COULD NOT FIND THEM!

WALKED ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE MEN'S CAMP SITE.

MAV WAS THERE AND PATRICK. DANTE WAS BUSY RUNNING AROUND.

MAV SAID THAT HE HAD HANDED THE CABLES BACK TO ME?

I TOLD THEM NOPE, I DON'T HAVE THEM.

I SAID SOMETHING ABOUYT : WE CAN SEE TOMORROW.

MAV SPOKE TO ME A LITTLE LONGER ABOUT HIS WORK AND JOB WITH THE MEN.

I THEN WALKED BACK.

LOOKED AGAIN FOR CABLES.

BUT KNEW I WOULD HAVE RECALLED IF THEY HAD BEEN HANDED TO ME.

ATE.

PREPARED FOR BED ETC.




Saturday, March 1, 2025

Sunday, December 29, 2024

SAT DEC 29, 2024 - TENT TO VEHICLE CAMPING OVERNIGHT- DRIVER'S SIDE WINDOW STUCK DOWN

 PACKED UP MY MINIMAL TENT CONTENTS.

THE CAMPGROUNDS WERE BOOKED AHEAD, BY A COUPLE OF GROUPS.  SO I WILL DEPART FOR 1 NIGHT.

SHOWERED.

GISELLE OFFERED TO LOOK FOR A HOTEL.

MAYBE LATER. 

AGAIN MY DRIVERS SIDE WINDOW WOULD NOT GO UP.

MIDDAY I CALLED THE PLACE WHO HAS ALREADY REPLACED BOTH WINDOW MOTORS ETC.

ELITE AUTO DID NOT ANSWER, AND THEY DO NOT TAKE MESSAGES.

SO, I PLANNED TO STAY OVERNIGHT IN CAR RATHER THAN LEAVE THE CONTENTS UP TO CHANCE.

I WENT TO ATTTEND TO ERRANDS.

WENT TO STORAGE TO DROP OFF A FEW THINGS, INCLUDING CAMP BEDDING AND HEATER.

DROVE TO GET DINNER.

IT WAS GETTING DARK.

WINDOW WENT UP!!


Monday, May 29, 2023

SUN MAY 28, 2023 - LOUD NOISE, AUTO WINDOW BROKE?

WOKE WITH PAIN  IN/OVER  SKULL AS IS MOST USUAL NOW.

PREPARED FOR PRACTICE.

10 AM ATTENDED THE 90 MIN HOT YOGA PRACTICE.

DROVE TO HOTEL FOR ONLINE WORK.

DETOX BATH ETC.( USIUAL DAILY PRACTICE,)

DROVE TO FT LAUDERDALE AREA.

GOT GASOLINE FILL UP.

COMMERCIAL BLVD.

PULLED OVER INTO A PARKING LOT OF McDONALD'S TO CHECK DIRECTIONS.

SIDE PASSENGER WINDOW WAS HALFWAY DOWN.

 THERE WAS A LOUD ODD SOUND FROM THAT DIRECTION.

  I USED THE BUTTON ON DRIVER SIDE TO PUT THE AUTOMATIC WINDOW UP.

IT MOVED UP SOME AT FIRST SOME.

THEN, I PUSHED THE BUTTON TO PUT THE PASSENGER WINDOW DOWN.

 THE WINDOW WENT ALL THE WAY DOWN.

THEN PUSHED THE WINDOW BUTTON TO PUT THE WINDOW UP, 

THAT PASSENGER WINDOW  WOULD NOT GO UP AT ALL!!

WHAT CAUSED THIS?

WENT TO SEE THE RENTAL.

MONDAY IS MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY.

HAVE TO LEAVE THE CAR WINDOW DOWN UNTIL I CAN GET IT CHECKED ON TUES.