Since Friday, the DIC on the car has shown the following error. Friday evening we went to leave to ride around for a few, when this error popped up. We thought it might have just been a glitch and just hit reset on the dash to clear the error. As we were backing out of the driveway, steering wheel locked, and the fuel cut off after hitting 2mph in reverse. Luckily, the following day we didn’t experience the error. Which really leaves you scratching your head wondering what caused it. But then again after a brief (1-day) stint with everything working fine, the error is back.
C5 Corvette 'Service Column Lock' error on the DIC
After riding around with a rear tire that was shot, threads showing, I finally got a chance to get my new tire put on. Taking the rear wheel off was super easy, as was reinstalling it. I took it off to have it changed in hopes of saving some money, which worked out nicely. I’m amazed at how much different a new tire feels. I was so used to riding around with one that you could feel slip a little bit at times, yet the new one is super sticky. On my test ride up the street I could hear the gravels from the asphalt slinging up on the underside of the bike from the stickiness of the new rear tire. I can even tell the bike sits higher than it once did thanks to the extra rubber the tire has. Here’s to hoping I get another 13k miles or so out of this one!
The past few days here have been wonderful outside — mid 70s and mostly sunny. I usually like it hot outside, but I must say that the mid 70s range is the most comfortable. Having these nice warm days, especially over the weekend, allowed me to get my bike out for the first real enjoyable ride of the year. I parked it nearing an oil change, so it took just a few days of riding to hit that milestone.
I’ve had it for right around 2 years now, and have clocked 8k miles on it. That seems like quite a bit for a bike, but I also ride it pointlessly around for the fun of it, and when weather permits, it’s my main transportation to work when it’s warm out. I bought it used with a little over 900 miles on it. My maintenance schedule is a little off from what the manual calls for, because I was told that it had the break in service already done before I got it, but I didn’t really want to take their word on it.
Lately, my computer has had a really bad case of humming loudly and nonstop. Loud enough that to listen to music you have to turn the volume up over the sound of the fan. Loud enough that if I don’t shut it down before I go to bed, I can lay in my room and hear it hum.
This afternoon I took the time to open it up and clean it out w/ a can of compressed air. I was very surprised at how the dust had caked up so bad on the backside of the computer. Not to mention how bad the inside had looked.
These pictures show exactly why it was so loud and why the fan ran constantly. I guess I could be ashamed to show how bad it was, but maybe it’ll help remind someone to clean out the dust bunnies.
As many times as I’ve seen the commercial for Sta-bil, laughing at it, I knew for certain that would never be me. I couldn’t have been more wrong! I spent more than an hour today trying to get my bike started. Apparently when it came time to put them up for the winter, none of us remembered fuel stabilizer. After leaving the battery charger on it and running the battery down 3-4 times, I was finally able to get it started. You could tell by the smell of the exhaust that the gas had turned bad. And since it was warm out, I went for a short cool ride afterwords to fill it up, which felt great!
Today at lunch I’m taking my truck in to get the 30k mile transmission service. On the phone they tried to sell me just a fluid change, and claimed that they had a detergent that would clean the transmission filter. That is not for me. I told them that I wanted a trans-vac done, which changes every bit of fluid, including that that’s in the torque converter, and I wanted a new filter installed as well. I’ve done this before myself, and would definitely do it this time if I had the equipment, because really it’s a gamble whether you’ll get what you pay for. It’s so easy for them to claim they’ll do something and just skip right over it. Like for the filter, I’ll never know if it was changed if I don’t either see them do it or take a look at it sometime down the road w/ my own eyes.
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I went down to Albany, GA on friday night and spent the night so that I could work w/ my brother and try to get a job completed. Albany wasn’t too bad looking of a town. I had never been there before, but like I said, not too bad.
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It’s easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you’d be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it’s lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul.
— , Acheron
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