At the end – next day of incident- rushed to tire shop and installed tires with whatever available wheel cap ๐ so now I can clearly call out my car from all other similar ones ๐
The side effect of this incident is clearly having a mini ‘trauma’ – I gave up commuting to office in entire this week…maybe I will try again in coming week.
One weekend hop to one of the most northwestern point in continuous 48 in US-San Juan Island. First time filling up the Y to 100% at nearest Supercharger station and drove to Ferry terminal
Holly shxt and just LOL scenery of yesterday when I arrived back at park and ride after the bus ride from work…
Why would some one pick this old and rugged car’s tire to pullout? ๐ This is something I heard happened to my friend of friend at Southside of Chicago happening to me in Bellevue.
Happen to meet one of my dream offroad car I have always wanted to drive. Although I didn’t had a chance to fully utilize it – it was a good experience ๐
Finally after buying the 220V split, extension cord, and charging kit with poking a pass thru holes on wall, (This was tough as small wall had lots of electrical wires behind it) but now I can charge the car at home.
Thanks to series of actions caused by US Gov and economy, (new car inflation, fuel cost, and IRA acts) my ‘originally vague plan of getting a Tesla’ came to fruition in much fast forward manner at the end of year. Now I need to learn how to set up all other things to enable home charging in any fashion. ๐
After noticing flaky warning lights on and off of ABS and ESC Off light for a while at my aging Sonata- like years-, I have noticed those two lights have always showed up in dash from some point in past – maybe before pandemic. But as a cheap guy ๐ I have ignored with the thoughts that I don’t need ABS nor ESC Off function anyhow… ๐
However, in last week after going thru hilly roads, one driver who was following me for a while finally walked to me at the stop light and told me “Dude your break lights are off!” then my stress from ‘fear of getting rearended by a car behind me at night’ started ๐
As a cheap and stupid owner, I thought it was a bulb problem ๐ – I had my Odyssey’s bulb fried on both sides of rear for a while ๐ However, the bulbs at Sonata were absolutely clean without any sign of problems.
After some YouTube research and looking at Sonata’s wiring diagrams – I realized break lights and ABS ESC switch are all connected and controlled by the switch connect/disconnect on the lever behind the break pad.
So as a cheap and easy guy, I fall into the trap of YouTube always being easy ๐ finally ordered the part from Amazon and end up rushing to auto part store to buy a “when needed not easily found” 14mm ranch. After struggling with acrobatic posture of throwing myself at the bottom under the handle for good 20 minutes and finally replaced the break switch.
Now, here comes the peace of no fear of rear-ended and no irritating dash lights plus likely I saved some good $120-$130 cost for replacing this part at auto shop. ๐