Mixed days

[timill]

On the bright side, my Escort appears none the worse for throwing its alternator belt on Monday, and the bacon was finally collected on Thursday. I was finally able to go into work on Friday, where half-a-hour's work looking at the diagnostics produced the answer to a problem that had been baffling the rest of the team for days[1].

On the down side, as Marcia reports, Faldo is going downhill suddenly. Rest doesn't seem to have produced any improvement, so we shall have to look at surgery, which is not necessarily a good thing on a twelve-year-old dog.



[1] it would have helped if DBA had set things up so it threw the error it's supposed to rather than just running away...

Comments

[erikvolson.livejournal.com]

The only time losing an alternator belt will kill a car is if it also drives the water pump and you keep driving as the car overheats. However, draining the starter battery to zero can kill that battery, so do watch for problems starting, esp. when it is colder than normal, or general flakiness. A proper battery test might be in order if you drove any real distance without the alternator (or worse, if you drove it until it died for lack of current.)

All the best for Faldo.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Hope Faldo comes out OK, he's a lovely dog.