The week a 1998 Civic taught me more than a year of trade school

This old lady brought in her Civic with a rough idle, and after three hours of chasing vacuum leaks I found a cracked PCV hose buried under the intake. The look on her face when it started smooth as new was better than any paycheck. What's the most satisfying 'simple' fix you've ever found?

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kim_davis24d ago

Ever have one of those fixes that makes you question why you even bothered with the fancy tools first?

jennybailey23d ago

Yeah totally, I mean I spent a whole weekend trying to sync some smart lights with a fancy app. Kim_davis gets it. Ended up fixing it by just pulling the plug on the whole system for a minute and turning it back on. Felt pretty dumb after all that.

averyc9424d ago

Three hours on a vacuum leak hunt sounds brutal, but that payoff is unreal. Kim_davis is right about overthinking the fancy tools sometimes. Finding that one cracked hose must have felt like winning the lottery.