“My Car does not start when I buy Vanilla Ice Cream” (2015)(digitalrepublik.com) |
“My Car does not start when I buy Vanilla Ice Cream” (2015)(digitalrepublik.com) |
> In 2010, the Pontiac Division of General Motors received...
> This was a cool act by General Motors especially in this world of Internet when news can go viral in matter of seconds
From Snopes:
> This legend surfaced in print in 1978, but an anecdotal sighting places it even earlier than that, in 1971.
I’m also worried about his health. Should he really be having ice cream everyday?
Why not? As long as you are not overweight, I don't see much of a problem.
After much thinking, we realized that when she was using the laptop in her bed, she would put it on her lap with her legs bent, so that the computer was sitting at a 45 degree angle wrt to the floor, while I would put the computer flat on my chest. This angle made the wifi antenna much less performant.
All other windows were fine and the problem would go away after a few hours of driving. The bug never occurred if the car was parked on a flat surface.
The mechanics were clueless. I've found that there's a so-called "convenience comfort module" located under a front seat. This electronic module was responsible for controlling the electric windows (amongst other things) and was insufficiently sealed. Water could enter and disrupt certain functions. My dealer wouldn't even believe me that this module exists. :)
Turns out other people had the water problem, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9z7iEbg3qY
I had a car which couldn't be parked that way either! Turned out, the reverse gear on a 1985 Honda Civic with a 4-speed manual was too low - the tiny engine simply didn't have the power to back up uphill. Unless I could guarantee that nobody would parallel park close to my front bumper, the car would be stuck in the parking spot!
This story is from the 70s, when "internet virality" was not yet on people's minds.
The reasons is simply that the batteries in the Magic Mouse are often loose and so shaking seems to help moving the batteries around: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/15709/magic-mouse-...
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The article was posted on May 10, 2015 but the story is from 2010.
Actually when I read the title, my first gut reaction was "Vapor Lock".
If you tell someone with experience repairing vehicles that your car starts fine when cold and find when you shut it off for a short while (e.g. buying gas they are going to nearly instantly hone in on "something is hot that shouldn't be".
Even the "store layout" part is nonsense. Really, only vanilla is quick to pick up, and even for chocolate and strawberry (or whatever the next most popular flavors are) you have to take the slow path? Nobody would organize their store like that.
(Also, are dedicated "ice cream stores" a thing in the US? As in, not ice cream parlors that also sell stuff to go, but something you would really call a "store", that is dedicated to ice cream specifically?)
And as for the layout - I have definitely seen freezers with a pile of easy-to-access vanilla ice cream in one section then a "miscellaneous" section where chocolate/pecan/whatever are either mixed in a pile or grouped (both require a couple of seconds to pause and search).
The story does seem too perfect, but this part does definitely check out
Had the guy just asked anyone who's used to driving old beater cars from the late carb/early EFI they probably would have guessed vapor lock or heat soaked ignition components right off the bat (probably with a little skepticism because new cars very rarely do that) and then tried to confirm/rule it out.
Vapor lock is a basically solved problem (and has been for 30+yr, the OEMs test for those kinds of things before they scale up production) the engineer will likely weight it lower as a possibility than the more oddly specific things. It's kind of like how a 2nd line IT person may miss rebooting a device as a potential solution because none of the problems they chase down have easy solutions like that.
Or do you have to look into it for a while