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Friday January 13th 2023

By January 14, 2023Food for thought

The Uber driving app says that I took 4 trips in total today. I earned a little over $95.00. I remember in 2020 when I had the motor swap done. I picked the car up and the check engine light was on. So I scanned it, then cleared the codes and it went away. I got to Pinellas County and that light came on again. So I called this dude that worked on my car several times before he had experience working with these cars (hybrids) he told me to check the oil. It looked to be less than 50 percent. So I added 2 quarts of oil, I drove it to Clearwater and it looked even lower now, like less than 40 percent. I looked several times under the car and couldn’t find any leaks and I tried and could smell nothing burning. I was like nothing is making any sense here. I contacted Automedic and I spoke with the owner Omar. I told him there are lights on the dashboard and it’s blowing some code, I forget what the actual code it was blowing at that time. I was like “I gotta bring this back.” Omar says to me “I will give you a deal, I will charge you just $55.00 an hour because that motor is right!” I am like “I just got this out of your shop and there is something wrong with it and I do not know what it is.” That night I put that code into YouTube a lot. I learned that the cause of my problem was a sensor inside a part that was easily replaceable. So I checked the oil the next day when it was cold and it was way over full. So my mother donated a clear plastic container and I looked on the bottom of it and read that full it held like 3 gallons or so. So I did some math and put a mark on that container where 4 quarts was about. I jacked up the car and drained out 4 quarts of oil. I then went to Valvoline quick oil change and had them drain the oil from Ruby and add in EXACTLY 4.4 quarts. After that, I went to Advanced Auto Parts and purchased whatever that part was called it’s on the Maintenance log, and replaced in the parking lot with some ratchet wrenches I brought with me. I cleared those codes and the problem went away forever. I just remember that the Original one was right on top of the motor and I replaced it with ease, but that Mother Fucker was hot! Anyway I got to thinking about that. So this morning I checked the oil in Ruby before I started her today. The oil looked about 60 percent full, so I added 1 quart and checked it again, it was overfull. So in two weeks, I will only add 1/2 a quart and that should do it. The moral of this story is don’t freak out, get as much information as possible and if there is still actually something to freak out about, by that time, you will realize that freaking out, is never really helpful at all.