{"id":1387,"date":"2006-06-30T15:29:52","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T20:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2006-07-31T13:23:40","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T18:23:40","slug":"the-brain-of-my-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/the-brain-of-my-car\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brain of my car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My lovely wonderful PT Cruiser is now over 5 years old and has experienced over 60,000 miles of travel with no big problems. But just before it&#8217;s 60K mile redo &#8212; the night before in fact &#8212; it stalled out at every stop light and took what seemed like forever to restart (grind grind grind grind).<br \/>\nI took it in the next morning for the 60K and told the mechanic about the sudden onset of the stallouts. He nodded and said that it had been a hot evening and that some gunk in the throttle housing must have gotten more liquid and then stopped up some of the throttle intake. He added that to the list.<br \/>\nFor a few days the car and I were fine. Then last Tuesday evening, after very good and very normal performance, the car stalled at a light again and took almost 5 minutes to restart.<br \/>\nOn the way home, it stalled regularly at stops.<br \/>\nI got back on the fix it list.<br \/>\nThe car worked fine.<br \/>\nToday I took the car in and in a few minutes it was back out. What happened? The mechanic said that there was a tech bulletin that described a similar problem. The fix was to download some new firmware into the onboard computer. So far so good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My lovely wonderful PT Cruiser is now over 5 years old and has experienced over 60,000 miles of travel with no big problems. But just before it&#8217;s 60K mile redo &#8212; the night before in fact &#8212; it stalled out at every stop light and took what seemed like forever to restart (grind grind grind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-pt-saga","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}