Since I was off the first part of the week due to the jobs being shut down for the cold, was able to help my buddies receive their cars from Mecum. Man did that turn out to be a task, I got there early but realized I had forgot the jump pack I was supposed to bring so had to run back home. By the time I got there they had all the cars off loaded from the truck, they weren't particularly happy that they only got a couple hour notice on the coldest day of the year around here (likely the last 5-10 years). But as I was pulling up the Reliant truck was leaving, so we got the AAR into the garage since it would start and put it up on the rack to get the Camaro in under it.
That turned into a couple of hour task, hook the jump pack up to it and it was cranking what seemed to be really close to starting but wouldn't turn over. Then it just went down hill from there, the combo of the cold and the cranking for a bit killed the jump pack so we put jumpers on the truck to charge it a bit. Send the one buddy to get a new battery since it seemed to have some type of issue after leaving it connected for a bit. He gets back with what they call a fully charged battery, my jump pack clips tell you what the voltage is and of course 12.9. So we hook the truck back up to it for a bit and fight around with it. Then as it turns out the drivers door stops opening, so our buddy has to climb in the passenger side to try for a while. Finally we give up and start to push it, since they had only got a couple of hours notice and were at work in town. They had got a buddy to come plow it so we didn't have to do it by hand, but it left a ton of snow and ice still that we slipped our way of pushing for a bit and having to take breaks cause of course its a slight incline. After quite a bit of fighting we are getting pretty close to the garage but have lost a lot of steam, someone driving by stops and asks if we want some help. I tell him I sure won't say no and gladly appreciate it. He said the reason he stopped is this is probably the only time he will be able to push a car like this my buddy says "is that cause usually the other ones are running" 🤣 Then finally 3 hours later we have the car into the garage and can call it a day, I think it would have been much less work just to go to work
That turned into a couple of hour task, hook the jump pack up to it and it was cranking what seemed to be really close to starting but wouldn't turn over. Then it just went down hill from there, the combo of the cold and the cranking for a bit killed the jump pack so we put jumpers on the truck to charge it a bit. Send the one buddy to get a new battery since it seemed to have some type of issue after leaving it connected for a bit. He gets back with what they call a fully charged battery, my jump pack clips tell you what the voltage is and of course 12.9. So we hook the truck back up to it for a bit and fight around with it. Then as it turns out the drivers door stops opening, so our buddy has to climb in the passenger side to try for a while. Finally we give up and start to push it, since they had only got a couple of hours notice and were at work in town. They had got a buddy to come plow it so we didn't have to do it by hand, but it left a ton of snow and ice still that we slipped our way of pushing for a bit and having to take breaks cause of course its a slight incline. After quite a bit of fighting we are getting pretty close to the garage but have lost a lot of steam, someone driving by stops and asks if we want some help. I tell him I sure won't say no and gladly appreciate it. He said the reason he stopped is this is probably the only time he will be able to push a car like this my buddy says "is that cause usually the other ones are running" 🤣 Then finally 3 hours later we have the car into the garage and can call it a day, I think it would have been much less work just to go to work
