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On the "amusingly weird car problems" note:
A friend of mine (who we'll call R) is Really Good with cars and another friend of ours had bought a "new" (to him) car but the rear tail lights didn't work properly. R looked at the car for about a minute, and then said "the stereo is new isn't it? unhook the stereo!" Sure enough that fixed it, there was a short in the stereo circuit that broke the tail lights because they were on a shared circuit (how he knew this we never got out of him, something about it being "intuitively obvious" ). He also noted that the car had been in an accident before we had even walked up to it (which the new owner didn't know) and pointed out a solid half dozen identifying characteristics of that (most of which I've since forgotten unfortunately).
A good mechanic is about half magician it seems..
A friend of mine (who we'll call R) is Really Good with cars and another friend of ours had bought a "new" (to him) car but the rear tail lights didn't work properly. R looked at the car for about a minute, and then said "the stereo is new isn't it? unhook the stereo!" Sure enough that fixed it, there was a short in the stereo circuit that broke the tail lights because they were on a shared circuit (how he knew this we never got out of him, something about it being "intuitively obvious" ). He also noted that the car had been in an accident before we had even walked up to it (which the new owner didn't know) and pointed out a solid half dozen identifying characteristics of that (most of which I've since forgotten unfortunately).
A good mechanic is about half magician it seems..