Fan blower motor speed
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Maybe he's waiting for dickeymoore to do everyone the courtesy to come back and tell the group if the advice ever worked. There may be others with the same issue.
At least it exposed the long-held belief that there are definitely people here that come hat in hand looking for the quick fix to their car woes, and NEVER give back with any updates as to how suggestions either worked or did not. And sometimes with no information about what troubleshooting was done. "Waaaa! My shiit's broke and I don't know how to fix it and now I will disappear." I call that "fence tossing". Identify that there's a problem. Takes problem and throws it over the fence and puts it in Gbodyforum's yard. Problem solved.
And then to top that off, no feedback to see if there's a potential new way to skin a cat or if everyone who had a suggestion was just wasting their time because it's all a mystery as to whether things got fixed or not. There's usually an expected level of engagement between the OP and the rest of the helpful suggesting public where communications help everyone solve an issue.
It's these kinds of situations that just make you want to blurt out "Go buy a CSM!"
At least it exposed the long-held belief that there are definitely people here that come hat in hand looking for the quick fix to their car woes, and NEVER give back with any updates as to how suggestions either worked or did not. And sometimes with no information about what troubleshooting was done. "Waaaa! My shiit's broke and I don't know how to fix it and now I will disappear." I call that "fence tossing". Identify that there's a problem. Takes problem and throws it over the fence and puts it in Gbodyforum's yard. Problem solved.
And then to top that off, no feedback to see if there's a potential new way to skin a cat or if everyone who had a suggestion was just wasting their time because it's all a mystery as to whether things got fixed or not. There's usually an expected level of engagement between the OP and the rest of the helpful suggesting public where communications help everyone solve an issue.
It's these kinds of situations that just make you want to blurt out "Go buy a CSM!"
can you direct me to those that got coal in their fishnet stockings this year?
For me the melted wire was dead giveaway. Well maybe not, there were multiple other melted wires under the hood. 69hurstolds are you Joe Pavadino in disguise? He angrily tells everyone on Classic Olds to get a CM with every question.
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haha. No. I think Joe angrily tells everyone whatever it is he's telling them. But I can see why it could go down that road eventually. Of course, I'll be 60 next year, so I'll be officially be able to say "Get off my lawn!" And the equivalent on the forums is "Go get a CSM!"
I mean, sometimes it's 45 minutes or so spent on researching an issue to help someone out. I don't mind if I know it's time spent to help someone out of a jam. And I get that it's voluntary. But there's the rub. If it starts to get to the point that when you help someone and they shiit on your advice all the time, and some of it has been proven to work, and they act like a bunch of ingrates, after a while of tossing out advice that ends up in a black hole, you eventually just say fugg it, no need to scream in space anymore if you have no idea if what people has advised ever worked to solve the issue. I know there's one-offs, and always a "new" problem to solve, but 95% of the time, someone has already ran into the issue before. We all can learn from these remote troubleshooting sessions. But only if there's a closed loop. Yeah, sometimes people forget to come back and provide the feedback. It happens. But if it happens a lot...
It's not a quid pro quo thing either. We all help because we want to help someone, not because we feel obligated; nor do we obligate anyone to help anyone else. But we all help each other to not have to spend weeks like many of us OG G-body owners did trying to learn that CSM or go through all the lessons from the school of hard knocks and maybe save someone some time or money or both. Nobody pays me, and nobody's paying most of y'all either, and I'm not looking for payment or medals, cookies, or whatever. But I've seen so many times people post all sorts of good technical information to help someone out and it's never known if that was the problem or not because people don't come back to update what worked or didn't or if they found a new way to fix it.
Since I'm retired, I have more time to research things and what's really odd, I get more enjoyment in helping others fix their projects than I do working on my own crap.
I think it's just common courtesy to come back and tell the group if what was recommended worked or didn't, or if there was a new way to fix the issue, and that way, when it does work, people can point back to that thread when someone has a similar problem and say, here, try this...it worked for so and so, it may work for you.
Some may not give a flying f**k, and that's ok, but I think it's better when you have practical results from the tons of advice that's tossed around in these forums. This is how we all learn what works and what doesn't.
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