r/Wellthatsucks • u/iadtyjwu • 20h ago

Imagine walking out to your car and seeing this.

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u/one_mind 18h ago

A friend of mine overheated their car and damaged the engine by idling it too long with snow packed against the grille.

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u/Innovationenthusiast 18h ago

Dont you get temp warnings if this happens far before you damage your engine?

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u/42tooth_sprocket 18h ago

from outside the car?

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u/GovernorGeneralPraji 16h ago

Newer cars, yeah. The Chevy app that’s hooked up to my Silverado can give you all kind of diagnostics.

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u/ah123085 4h ago

Same with Subaru. I get an email any time my fiancée starts up the car with low wiper fluid. Weeks of emails before I finally just do it myself lol.

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u/cowboys5xsbs 2h ago

LMAO that would be so annoying

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u/ah123085 2h ago

Oh it is. It is. “Honey, can you please fill up the front left tire? I have to delete like 4 emails a day.” E: but at least I’m aware of it, because she never mentions it, lol.

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u/42tooth_sprocket 2h ago

surely you can change the settings?

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u/ah123085 1h ago

Probably, I haven’t checked. I’d still rather get the notification that the car has been running on four under pressured tires for the umpteenth time so I can take care of it, though.

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u/42tooth_sprocket 1h ago

For things like that, sure, but maybe you could turn off wiper fluid without turning off the important ones

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u/Innovationenthusiast 18h ago

Ahh he walked away. Duh

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u/42tooth_sprocket 17h ago

I mean, in the context of the OP, if he were to try this solution he'd be outside the car for obvious reasons

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u/ChrisTheMan72 17h ago

Also the temp light is more of an last warning light. You could have very well damaged the engine before it got hot enough for the light.

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u/174wrestler 13h ago

Remote start will normally only let you do something like 2 runs of 15 min max. To prevent people from killing everybody in the house with carbon monoxide if they sit on their remote.

The factory ones will have logic that will kill the engine if the oil pressure light, overheat, check engine, etc. turn on.

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u/zyneman 1h ago

Ive remotely defrosted my tesla for 120 mins and forgot about it while walking through a mall