Smithcraft
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So it was, and I never denied that.
Only one person has answered the question that I asked. One other person made an informative comment, some of the rest of the comments have been in a negative manner, because their situation is different from mine, and they can not comprehend that not everyone has the some level of convenience that they do. Heck I grew up a block from a parts store, so walking five miles rather than down the block is still foreign to me, and I'd rather it stays foreign!Dang..... We're all just here to help, no need to get angry. Again, it was YOUR to continue to drive a car with flashing warning lights and it was YOUR idea to walk all that way. I'm not sure where you live, but couldn't you call someone? A cab, a bus, AAA?
Unfortunately, the alternators would not magically change places. Take a cab? Yeah. Let me spend the afternoon waiting for the driver to find where I live and have to make a second call sometime later as the driver claimed it was a non existent address. Been there - Done that. Not going to do it again. A bus? The bus line swings back around, a block from the parts store. Not really going to help to take the bus for a block is it? AAA - Used them to get the car home. They always say the driver will be there in half an hour, but call back in an hour if he isn't there. Never had a AAA assistance driver show up in less than an hour. Call someone? What a great iDea! If I had anyone to call, I would have. After the walk from the transmission shop, I have no qualms about calling someone for a ride. Unfortunately, most people are at work on Monday and not available, as most employers aren't too happy about letting employees split for two hours in the middle of the day.
I didn't blame anyone here for my decision to walk, and trust me it was nothing like 'Forrest decides to go for a walk,' but when someone says they walked a mile to the store and then begged for a ride home because they bought something there, and then tell me that I should have done the same( and I did ask for a ride back! Again - only one employee in the store/can't leave) and that what was not possible for me, should have been because they did it, and imply that I'm too lazy to make the walk again.
Or to say, why didn't you find it in a search, I found it on my first hit? When their search terms are completely different from the problem that is being researched and are completely focused on their comment. When you search for something, you will get many false positives where someone only mentioned one of your search terms on the third page of a thread. You can't read them all, and you will more likely focus on topics that closely match what you are looking for.
Has your Mark ever done anything odd, or flashed a bogus message on the display, or continue to give incorrect information because of a problem nobody knows a solution to, or a problem that nobody cares to figure out?
If after flashing a message, it then proceeds to do the exact opposite of what that message would imply, then how do you trust the system?
Lincolns of Distinction offers a great deal of information for it's readers to research for working on these cars. There are people here that one can count on to provide insight and worthwhile information into the situation, and there are those that just need to exercise their fingers. Instead of making backhanded insults and telling people who one has no idea of their situation what they should have done after the fact when they are making the best of the situation at hand, one should try being less caustic. People might be happier, rather than pissed off at the "help" that is offered.
