When I returned to my car tonight with groceries (on the way home from work), my car didn't respond to the key fob. No light -- presumably a dead fob battery, with no warning signs beforehand. (I've never had this happen before.) As I was calling Dani to ask him to bring the spare from home, it suddenly dawned on me that I didn't need to. Oh ( Read more... )

This morning I found my 2008 Honda Fit unable to start. After checking ( Read more... )

Several weeks ago somebody hit my car in a parking lot and was decent ( Read more... )

I have a mechanic I like but scheduling routine stuff like inspections with him is kind of tricky, so last week I called the Honda dealership in Shadyside and made an appointment for this morning (confirming that I would wait for the car and they could do it quickly enough that that would work, oh and that they have free Internet access ( Read more... )

Query to the brain trust: I have USB headphones that include a microphone. What free software can I use to record voice from that microphone (preferably on Windows XP but I also have an iBook with OS 10.4 available) and produce something like WAV files? (I know I'm not going to get stellar audio quality from this setup; that's ok. The immediate ( Read more... )

Dear certain drivers I had the misfortune to be near today: Write "momentum is not always bad" 500 times or until you learn that on icy uphill stretches there is such a thing as "minimum speed", whichever comes second. Having to plan around your antics is a PITA. Thank you ( Read more... )

Last fall I got a recall notice for my Golf, and dutifully mailed the "I no longer own this car" card back to VW (the day after I bought my Fit, in fact). That, however, does not seem to have had any effect on mailings from my local dealership. These letters are usually good for a snark or two; they are written by either an optimist or someone ( Read more... )

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I bought a car tonight. The Honda salesman had called me last week to say that he now had a manual-transmission Fit for me to look at. It's their only one and he was holding it for me, so I went on the first possible night (Friday and Saturday being out and dealerships being closed by law on Sundays ( Read more... )

With six months to go on my warranty and a desire to do test drives in daylight, I figured it was time to go check out the Honda Fit. I've been somewhat admiring this car from afar, but I'd never driven one (nor even sat in one). So tonight, armed with a dealer referral (thanks, ralphmelton; he says you two are a lovely couple :-) ), I set out to remedy ( Read more... )