Hope all the rest of y’all are staying warm, too (or cool, in the case of our antipodean Guardians). It’s been plenty cold here this weekend, and I spent more time than I would’ve liked outside trying to get my wife’s car working right. Sunday morning (-5°F or so out), it wouldn’t start, so I started up my truck, hooked up the jumper cables and got it going. Well apparently it didn’t like that (I guess newer vehicles with their fancy computers aren’t fond of jumpstarts), because by the time she got in after letting it run for a couple minutes, there were all sorts of warning lights and error messages, the radio/display wasn’t working, and the throttle was completely unresponsive when you pushed the gas pedal.
Now I don’t mind doing minor fixes/maintenance work on our vehicles, but I’m definitely no mechanic, so what turned out to be a fairly simple fix in the end (a new battery and a couple fuses) took me longer than I care to admit with my trial and error approach and Google/YouTube diagnostics.