Re: [DML] Serious Megasquirt Question

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What was wrong with the car that it stalled and the battery was dead and wouldn't start the car? 
You didn't have the auxiliary jump start battery with you or jumper cables to use with another vehicle?
Gary Masie

----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Rice 
Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 12:27 pm
Subject: Re: [DML] Serious Megasquirt Question
To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> He just freaked out because it was a Delorean, got all cocky 
> saying he
> was tempted not to come out to give me a jump start, and then drove
> off and told me I would need to contact AAA to get someone else to
> give me a tow. What ticked me off is he had a flat bed truck.
> 
> Come to think of it, it might have been roadside assistance with a
> company other than AAA. My insurance company has roadside assistance
> and that might have been what I was using. Regardless, I canceled
> roadside assistance after that. You are going to have to deal with
> the same crap with whoever they contract to do the work.
> 
> After the guy refused to tow me home, I opened the door, pushed the
> car about 20 feet (by myself), jumped in, and bumped the transmission
> in 2nd gear. I drove the car home and fixed the problem myself. 
> It
> took me about 2 minutes to push start the car after I wasted 
> over an
> hour on roadside assistance. After that incident, I vowed to never
> use roadside assistance again.
> 
> -Steve Rice
> #16510
> 
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Farrar Hudkins 
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Stephen Rice 
> wrote:
> >
> >> **
> >>
> >>
> >> The driver can deny to tow your car.
> >>
> >>
> >> What reason did the driver give? I would have complained 
> mightily to AAA.
> >
> > Farrar Hudkins
> > #2613
> >
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> -- 
> Steve Rice
> #16510
>


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