A comedy of errors this morning.So David is back at the company again, with a contract working in Risk and Security, or something like that…so we’ve been doing the carpool thing to save some gas, some money, and to drive in the carpool lane. Really, driving in the carpool lane is the biggest benefit of the deal.This morning I went out to my car to pull it out of the garage, to discover that the immobilizer had activated. Basically the message screen said “IMMOBILIZER – SEE MANUAL”, then flipped over to “STEERING LOCKED – SERVICE REQUIRED”.Great…so I tried a couple times, same error, looked in the manual and it said that it’s caused by having both remotes next to each other in the car…well the other remote was in the house, so that wasn’t the issue.

Anyway, I told David he was going to have to drive. So we get in his jeep, which was basically on 0 miles before empty (you can see where this is going right?), and off we go. We got about 2 miles down the road, and chug chug chug, it ran out of gas. Thankfully we were about 100 yards from the gas station, so we both hopped out and pushed the VERY heavy jeep grand cherokee to the gas station.

We gas’d up, while I talked to the dealership about the error on my car…they were very surprised that something like this would happen with a pretty much brand new car, and they provided me a remedy suggestion for when I get home…

Alas…I got my workout for the morning pushing the jeep up the street…thank goodness it wasn’t a hill.