Thank you Youtube and google and car forums

NYSpeed Automotive
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I had “major” issues in the past 24 hours with automobiles.

I am far from a mechanic but like a dog, I can follow simple commands/directions.

First, headed home from the Naab Shop, I decided to get something to eat. My Titan has the worst door handles ever. Out of the 4 working doors on my crew cab, my drivers exterior handle does not work below freezing, but the interior does. Nissan must have thought of me when they installed the keyfob window roll down feature. I simple hit the button, window rolls down, use inside handle…no bigs.

Last night, I am walking out with my takeout, hit the button, window goes down, I reach inside and boom window falls of track and I hear it hit the bottom of the door…ugh. Drive home in 10 degrees with no window cursing the heavens.

With the help of youtube I was able to get the door panel off in about 5 minutes of being home and discover that with the cold and the hit, my window had actually cracked and there was nothing I could do. So today it is at the shop getting new glass, new door handle and new window regulator.

This morning, seniorita wakes me up and says her car is cranking but wont start…ok, battery was getting weak, I will drive her to work and handle it.

Open the hood, remove the battery cover and F U Infiniti for burying the thing under all of the windshield cowls. So its cold and I am angry that its not simple so I go inside and again curse at the heavens. Once I collect my thoughts and regain feeling in my fingers, I hop on the google machine and viola, a quick how to quickly and painlessly remove the junk in the way to get the battery.

10 min later, I am outside with the battery out and off to the autoparts store to grab a new one instead of jump starting and surrendering 2x in one day to shop labor for simple non mechanic tasks.

I am still no mechanic, but I am at least capable of small repairs with the help of the internet. Things that 10 years ago would have resulting in my just ripping things apart to a point of damage and a hole in the wall of the garage are made easier and more confident by forums, google, and youtube.

Anyone else feel the same?

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Yes

And :fu: nissan/infinti with the door handle freezing thing

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I am constantly amazed by how much detail I can get about a problem and it’s repair with a quick google search. Not just cars either. In the past year I’ve fixed a gas dryer, hot water heater and dishwasher, along with learning how to tile a floor, install an exterior door and work with drywall.

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Just don’t google a medical issue, if it’s anything like what they say, you’ll be dead soon.

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Yeah, I did the same with my pool heater…crazy. Things that I would not attempt from fear are now at least reasonable to attempt first and call for back up later.

Yeah WebMD is evil.

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The remote for my old Range Rover never worked and it only had one lock on the drivers door. When the lock froze (which it did every really cold night) I’d put the key in and the cylinder would just freely spin round and round…

#thingsthathappenedIRL

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I have learned so much in this information age… The problem is when people don’t have basic ability and attempt things they see online. That shit always kills me as I have to clean up the mess. In my current house some ass hole sprayed popcorn ceilings, then painted it :fu: THEN they took white caulk and used it to do the corners on the drywall instead of corner bead and mudding it. :fu: I assume both could have been avoided or were caused by the internet, not sure which way it leans.

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Turns out my head cold from the other day was aids AND syphillis. Symptoms match.

Love me some interwebs. It makes my garage hack skills almost passable at times. We really do live in a great age, in a great country. 'MURICA.

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:lol: For sure…when I think about it, most of my car anger comes from Nissan and their products!

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hell yeah, I was talking to a co-worker the other day about this. I’ve learned SO MUCH DIY crap from youtube and internet forums. I’d have been up a creek without it, many times.

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The part I find the most helpful is how quickly you identify common problems because as soon as you start searching you’re like, “oh, that’s exactly what mine is doing and it’s happening to everyone else too”.

Maybe ultimately it will lead to tighter quality control and more recalls for defective designs. For example I doubt the Porsche IMS bearing failures would ever had made it to class action settlement and an engine redesign to eliminate the IMS bearing all together in the pre-internet days. You would have blown your engine, paid to have it fixed and never realized how common it was.

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The only place this backfires is idiots who have computer issues and start doing each fix in order of how they’re returned in google results.

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Also, when i put the new battery in the g37x, the auto down/up feature wasnt working right to open/close the door. A quick search and I was able to reset the windows to work as intended.

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i cant tell you how many times I have had to use the internet for shit like this…

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1.) Format C:
2.) Boot into safe mode
3.) Run antivirus

Oh no the virus erased all my stuff!!!

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i did this kind of shit back when i was 13-14. once i figured it out i was doing crazy things like buying PSPs with broken screen, replacing them for $20 on about 15 min (7 screws, two tabs, and one connector) and selling them after fixed or modded for $150+. was even installing custom firmware on them. all learned through youtube/google. same thing with stupid things that i couldnt find in alldata or napafix like reprogramming key fobs. love me some interwebz.