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Old Feb 20, 2012 | 12:57 AM
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Red face Embarrassing moment as a tech

So this weekend i decided to finish up my work on my FC (Bolting down replacement seats and installing NRG short hub and QR) While i was in front of the car i notice my car had fog lights. I spent 15 mines looking at the dash searching for a fog light switch. Then i put my hand on the center console and saw the switch. I felt like a fool for not noticing i had fog lights and not being able to find my fog light switch >~<

Has anyone ever had a moment like that?
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Old Feb 20, 2012 | 01:09 AM
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I had to look in the owner's manual to find the rear defroster button. I don't know how I missed it. I think the steering wheel partially covers the graphic next to the button... or I'm just stupid.
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Old Feb 20, 2012 | 02:00 AM
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I still dont know how to operate the high beams.. always thought maybe my switch is broke? I can flash but Im not sure if the switch is suppose to stick or what... lol
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Old Feb 20, 2012 | 07:07 AM
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You're supposed to keep pulling the switch for the duration you need your high beams...D'oh!
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Old Feb 20, 2012 | 01:35 PM
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my switch for the high beams/turn signals breaks off all the time, then i stick it back in waiting for it to randomly fall out of place when I use it.

As for the high beams go, they stumped me for a while to, but if you click it hard enough, they should engage & stay on
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Old Feb 20, 2012 | 01:43 PM
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I feel like a genius, I figured out the high beams pretty quick.

I did have trouble with figuring out how to open my hatch after the shocks wore out completely. The "door slam" method works wonders.
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Old Feb 20, 2012 | 01:58 PM
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High beams = when headlights are on, pulling the switch once turns on the high beams, pulling it again turns them off. When headlight are off, high beams only stay on for the duration you hold the switch.

I am also very familiar with the door slam method for opening the hatch.
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Old Feb 20, 2012 | 04:00 PM
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Everytime i go to open the hatch i open the gas tank or vise-versa... its sad that i still haven't gotten that down yet. And i still flick the cruise control switch to turn on my wipers every now and then. I guess all my previous vehicles have me more trained than i thought.
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Old Feb 20, 2012 | 04:27 PM
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Reading this^

is so sad.
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Old Feb 20, 2012 | 05:27 PM
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One of my earliest posts 8 years ago was how to switch off the stock radio (had a '91 with OEM gigantic CD player). Now that I think about it, I don't remember!
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Old Feb 20, 2012 | 05:37 PM
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how do u turn radio on?^
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Old Feb 21, 2012 | 07:22 AM
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Hypertek- sounds like you have a FC66 CPU & it needs to be replaced lol
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Old Feb 22, 2012 | 08:09 PM
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intermittent wiper speeds. heh.
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