We can go at 5:00 p.m. Saturday or 9:00, 11:00, 1:00 or 4:30 on Sunday. This is helpful when you’re trying to organize ten people!
Tom said everything in the electrical system seems to be connected, so I’m thinking it’s the starter. However, AAA won’t tow it unless we have the RV enhancement. DP can probably add that to the membership today, and then we can have it towed tomorrow. I just emailed Kathleen’s riding teacher to reschedule her lesson for after Tom gets home from school, so I can drive the Avalon.
Sigh.
If the battery is strong, the problem is usually in the starter. Turn on headlights so you can see how they behave.
If the starter turns over but the vehicle doesn’t start, you have some kind of engine problem. Could be out of gas.
If the starter doesn’t engage, but the lights don’t go dim, you have a starter problem. Make sure you check starting it in park as well as neutral. The problem could be in the neutral/safety switch.
Sometimes everything is right, but the starter doesn’t move from its rest position, (what some may call a “dead spot”.) Believe it or not, whacking the starter with a mallet while you are trying to start the vehicle may wake it from its dead spot. This usually means getting a new starter eventually.
I’ve tried to talk Busdaddy into getting AAA with the RV and the motorcycle riders, but he has been resisting me for several years. The RV rider would pay for itself the first time he had to have it towed. But it’s not my problem any more, and I haven’t mentioned it in over a year.
While I was at Wally’s, I found some “cheap” Moscato, at $2.86, and it’s not bad. But when I got it home, I realized I need to get a new corkscrew. *sigh* Payday can’t come soon enough. (I want to get another bottle or two of the stuff!)
One of the neighbors gave me a bottle of red wine, and I have just never, ever learned to like it. I like rose’ and Zinfandel, and Blush (which is probably rose’) but not red. My bad.