Check Engine Light

micah — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:59:23 +0000

So the Echo’s check engine light came on for the first time in 9 years as I was driving home on Tuesday. As my main concern was getting home and going to bed, I left it until the next day. Unfortunately, it did not magically go away over night, so I stopped by Advance Auto on the way home. I didn’t realize they did this before reading about it on their site, but they’ll read the OBD code for free from your car. Anyway, the code was for the camshaft position sensor, which sounded expensive, but was only about $80. They didn’t have it in stock, but could get it the next morning. I picked it up on Thursday and after I couldn’t find where it went I got on some Toyota forums and found where it went. 15 minutes + 10 mm socket wrench and it’s good as new. Fixing things yourself for cheap is *good*.

I took some cold medicine

micah — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:20:27 +0000

I took some cold medicine. That may explain why it’s 3am and I’m working on the public aspect of micahstephens.com again. I predict rare posts. Although, I added a twitter feed and a Google Latitude widget already, so atleast something on the site will change. I may put some kind access control on the site so that I can complain / rant to my private audience rather than the world at large. We’ll see how this goes.