Day 12- The Reckoning

Day 12, D-day…  sort of.  So I get a call from my Wife, did I tell you all how much I love this woman?  Well it’s a lot, and evidently She loves me a lot too, or you wouldn’t be reading this.  Back to the phone call…  It starts off with a question, “do you know how much the credit card bill is?”  Of course I don’t, or I would probably be upset with myself… or not, but I’d understand why my loving Wife is thinking of places to hide the body…  I talk Her off the ledge and we both agree that I cannot spend any more money this month, well except for one minor item.  Paint.

I’ve been trying to find an off the shelf paint match for my car, but no luck thus far.  I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’ll have to buy the good stuff and paint the car in one sitting, I was hoping to do a few panels at a time, but it has been recommended by the paint supplier to do it all in one shot to eliminate the variations with humidity and pressures and such, the little things that can make differences in how the color lays down and even affecting the shade of the color as it is applied.  Not an easy task.  No matter, I needed to get paint and seeing as I was already on my way to the supply house, I was going to get it today, but I swear that will be it for a while…  Likely story right?  So I got a few quarts of paint and the corresponding clear coat and I was on my way.

Later that day…

During my drive last night, I noticed the center LCD on the digital dash is not reading correctly.  The numbers are tough to make out, but everything still lights up and seems to be accurate.  I have done some research online and the disassembly and reassembly is relatively straight forward so I’ll give it a go.  Maybe it will be a simple matter of cleaning the contacts or the like.  I get it disassembled and clean everything, I put it all back together and give it a test, same problem, so I shelve that project for the night and turn my attention to the ABS relay, again.  I had stopped to the store and purchased a regular 12 volt, 30amp relay and a couple different diodes to try to fabricate what I needed.  I got a mock up done, not pretty, but it should work.  I plugged it in and sure enough, it works. 

By this time it had gotten late, so I wrapped it up for the night.

Parts replaced today:

Relay and Diodes - $10

Parts cost so far: $995