Companion to my Crown Vic website. Updates on my 1998 - 2008 Crown Victorias, and other related info.
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Friday, March 11, 2016
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Keep a light burning in the window...
So, I'm out with some railfans, waiting on a Pan Am freight, enjoying a record warm March day. The train passes, and we start walking back to our cars. I notice my headlights are on. No clue why as the sun is shining. I start thinking... Did I accidentally hit the light switch or something? OR, did my boyfriend show up while our view across the tracks were blocked, unlock the car, and switch on my lights to mess with me?
I unlock the car, and the light switch is off. Turning it turns on the marker lights and taillights like normal. The high beams didn't work. I popped the hood, looked around, and didn't see anything obvious. I even switched on the AUX power to see if Todd's wig-wags and flashers were the problem. (No, he hasn't removed his equipment yet)
Fast forward... I am driving home because I can't leave the car parked with the headlights on for an hour or two. As I stop at traffic lights, I play with switches and stuff and look at the lights reflecting in the cars in front of me. Things just won't go off.
Pull into driveway, and look at time. Vic 1.0 had a feature where things like interior lights would shut off if accidently left on by the driver. I forgot the amount of time it would take. So I parked the car and looked back in a 1/2 hour. STILL ON.
A search for correct socket ensued, and the battery was disconnected.
A little while later, Todd comes over and we poke around under the hood a bit. Pulling fuses doesn't turn the lights off. We mess with the battery cable and listen for things turning on and off, etc etc etc.
So... long and short of the story is the culprit was a connector Todd had used to wire up all his lighting. One metal bit was brown and burny. Being electrically illiterate, I guess that was causing a short, thus turning on the headlights alone. And I think even on high-beams!
We unplugged that connector, hooked up the battery again, and everything was back to normal.
One potentially annoying and pricey fix avoided... THANKFULLY!!
I unlock the car, and the light switch is off. Turning it turns on the marker lights and taillights like normal. The high beams didn't work. I popped the hood, looked around, and didn't see anything obvious. I even switched on the AUX power to see if Todd's wig-wags and flashers were the problem. (No, he hasn't removed his equipment yet)
Fast forward... I am driving home because I can't leave the car parked with the headlights on for an hour or two. As I stop at traffic lights, I play with switches and stuff and look at the lights reflecting in the cars in front of me. Things just won't go off.
Pull into driveway, and look at time. Vic 1.0 had a feature where things like interior lights would shut off if accidently left on by the driver. I forgot the amount of time it would take. So I parked the car and looked back in a 1/2 hour. STILL ON.
A search for correct socket ensued, and the battery was disconnected.
A little while later, Todd comes over and we poke around under the hood a bit. Pulling fuses doesn't turn the lights off. We mess with the battery cable and listen for things turning on and off, etc etc etc.
So... long and short of the story is the culprit was a connector Todd had used to wire up all his lighting. One metal bit was brown and burny. Being electrically illiterate, I guess that was causing a short, thus turning on the headlights alone. And I think even on high-beams!
We unplugged that connector, hooked up the battery again, and everything was back to normal.
One potentially annoying and pricey fix avoided... THANKFULLY!!
Saturday, February 6, 2016
Friday, January 1, 2016
... and Crown Vics Were There!
... LOTS of them. And SILVER ones, too!! Thing is... what is all that stuff sitting on them?? Don't they know that's how you SCRATCH PAINT??
Oh, the threat ended up being a hoax... AFTER the damage was done...
End of an Era: Nells Vic 1.0 RETIRED
Wellp, welcome to a new year. I won't go into how crappy 2015 was, and my feelings about what 2016 will be like (HINT: Crappier.)
Instead, I will FINALLY update the blog with something I have been putting off for months.
As visitors to the main site may already know, Vic has been retired, and will furthermore be referred to as Vic 1.0.
What started on April 6, 2000 ended on July 20, 2015. On that day, I gained ownership of my boyfriend's 2006 P71 Crown Vic. Plates were swapped, and suddenly I was driving a blue car instead of a gray one. You can read a bit more about the change HERE.
Being a new year with a new/used car, I shall begin with the traditional mileage count, which can now include the car's idle hours:
Vic 2.0 was a Ford demo, and never saw police duty. So most of those hours were from us railfanning, or from Todd sitting in a cold/hot parking garage trying to eat his lunch.
One thing that even I can't get over, is the fact that neither myself or Todd has snow tires on yet! It has been a very mild autumn, and our first bit of snow arrived on 12/29/15. For some reason, we just keep putting the tire swaps off...
Todd is now driving a 2013 Ford Interceptor Sedan, also known as a Taurus police car. It is the AWD V6 version, non-turbo. He seems to like it a lot. I'd like some carpet and a fabric rear seat, but so far it has been ok. It is rather peppy. It has grown on him more than on me...
Instead, I will FINALLY update the blog with something I have been putting off for months.
As visitors to the main site may already know, Vic has been retired, and will furthermore be referred to as Vic 1.0.
What started on April 6, 2000 ended on July 20, 2015. On that day, I gained ownership of my boyfriend's 2006 P71 Crown Vic. Plates were swapped, and suddenly I was driving a blue car instead of a gray one. You can read a bit more about the change HERE.
Being a new year with a new/used car, I shall begin with the traditional mileage count, which can now include the car's idle hours:
Vic 2.0 was a Ford demo, and never saw police duty. So most of those hours were from us railfanning, or from Todd sitting in a cold/hot parking garage trying to eat his lunch.
One thing that even I can't get over, is the fact that neither myself or Todd has snow tires on yet! It has been a very mild autumn, and our first bit of snow arrived on 12/29/15. For some reason, we just keep putting the tire swaps off...
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| Vic 2.0 at Sleepy Hollow, Concord MA (11/18/15) |
Todd is now driving a 2013 Ford Interceptor Sedan, also known as a Taurus police car. It is the AWD V6 version, non-turbo. He seems to like it a lot. I'd like some carpet and a fabric rear seat, but so far it has been ok. It is rather peppy. It has grown on him more than on me...
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| 2013 PI goes railfanning (9/5/15) |
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