You know, as a male, I am expected to know things about cars and machinery etc, but to be honest.  I am clueless.  Someone asked me the other day what an oil flow monitor was the other day, and other than saying that it was something that controlled the flow of oil, I have no clue whatsoever.   My father told me that a mass air flow sensor was bad in his car and I just shook my head and nodded.

I didn’t know that there was a sensor in the car that controlled mass air flow.  All I know about a car is that I put gas in it, use the key to start it up and it runs.  If the tires go flat, I get the tires replaced.  However, if something goes wrong with something with the car’s computer components, that I can sometimes diagnose.

I had a problem with the car shifting gears.  Normally this is a transmission problem.  What was weird was that the car did this after it ran for about 45 minutes.  This seemed similar to a computer with a faulty motherboard.  Once it gets hot, the computer would start malfunctioning.  I get it looked at and sure enough; the sensor for the drive train was bad.  $80 and my car was fixed.  I guess I’m not quite as useless with machinery after all. 

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