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[–] sleepmode 54 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

I had a Jetta. One of the least hoopty hoopties I’ve owned. But as the years went on and miles piled up, in typical VW fashion, the check engine light would come on for no reason. Would pull codes and nothing. But of course inspection would fail.

It hadn’t come on for a few days so I took it in to renew reg (would reset after about 100 miles). Sitting there in the inspection lane, light winks on. I screamed at the dashboard and it blinked off. I stared in disbelief for a moment and it passed.

Thought it was a fluke but, no — any time it came on after that I would scream and it would turn off.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Maybe the light in the dash was shorting, causing the light to turn on on its own

And screaming was juuuust enough to cause the short to break connection?

It's either that or ghosts

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] RubberElectrons 4 points 1 week ago

Incontrovertibly.

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