Oh yes, what a fun weekend it has been.<\/p>\n
The Fiero died while waiting at a traffic light, and upon inspection by the auto mechanic, several fusible links were in need of being replaced.<\/p>\n
All well and good, except that I got a telephone call from the mechanic later saying that while the links were replaced, reconnecting the battery produced black smoke coming from the area of the defroster. <\/p>\n
The prognosis? About $500 in labor to remove the entire dashboard to diagnose the problem and then $500 to replace the wiring harness that had no doubt been burned up.<\/p>\n
So, I of course had the Fiero towed back to my place and proceeded to disassemble the dash myself on my day off. The car now works fine. <\/p>\n
The end cost? Two hours of my time and about $1.50 worth of cable to splice in and replace that burnt when it had become to frayed over the twenty years of use and melted the plastic coating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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