This was my Dad's assessment on my H today.
After being under the weather recently, today is the first time I have driven our car since beginning of last week. I switched on the engine to be greeted with "Engine Workshop" warning and a variety of warning lights - ABS and ESP. Terrific!
For some reason I thought about the brake lights (vague memory about reading about this problem on a car forum) and left the brake pedal pressed down with a bottle of milk to check if the lights were on. They wasn't. Phoned Dad, checked the fuses & bulbs, nada. Dad picks car up, takes dashboard to pieces and reckons the switch is faulty, so we head off to get a new switch.
No switch in stock, will be tomorrow and Dad is going away for the weekend but said he could fit it before he goes. Perfect...until H chirps in with "Oh, yeah, those warning lights were on last week, but I just ignored it". H has been driving around in a car with no brake lights for over a week - how the feck he avoided being either pulled over by the police or having someone run in the back of him, I don't know.
I'm really cross H has left it, thinking it would "go away" on it's own - now Dad is delaying his break by an hour or so tomorrow, so he can fit the new part, and H is stressing that "what happens if it's not that part that's faulty?" and "what happens if something goes wrong tomorrow, we could be stuck with no car for the weekend". Well, duh, you should have thought about that last week and said something to Dad earlier, rather than thinking it would just disappear. ?
Please, dear otters, cheer me up - tell me your H's have done muppety things and it's not just mine which has had a brain bypass.
