So I picked up an '06 Envoy yesterday- clean vehicle in excellent shape at the right price. Color me happy. Driving the vehicle home yesterday, I noticed the clock is way off and make a mental note to dig out the owner's manual and begin the button- pressing sequence and evocation of the mantra that may set the clock..... not quite right probably but closer than seven hours off. Today I noticed it again and decided it was time to 'bite the bullet' and set off to do the deed. So I am looking at the center electronics WHEN SUDDENLY I notice a rocker under the digital clock that is marked (HR) and (MIN). Could it possibly be that easy? Really? YES! Just press and hold each side until the correct number rolls around. Amazing! Now I do not know what to do with the 14 hours I had allotted to setting that clock in the first place. Yea GM! You guize rock! Sure they went bankrupt but they built a fantastic digital automotive clock first!

Brian

It's like that on my Toyotas...  I finally set the corrected time on my C14 last Saturday.  Took 10 minutes of guessing which button did what...

It's like that on my Toyotas...  I finally set the corrected time on my C14 last Saturday.  Took 10 minutes of guessing which button did what...

Well, if you had taken the 20 minutes needed to look it up in the owner's manual you could have saved yourself some time. 

If you can't find your owner's manual look on the shelf with the CCs on it.

I'm pretty sure it's not there but I do need to find it again...

Well right at the moment (no pun intended), everything we drive has a clock set by two buttons, both clearly labeled and both having one very simple function. In Andrea's car, the clock is actually a round, analog looking thing with hands (but it is really digital of course). Under the clock are two buttons marked (+) and (-); they make the hands move that way. Even a cave man could figure it out.

Brian

It's like that on my Toyotas...  I finally set the corrected time on my C14 last Saturday.  Took 10 minutes of guessing which button did what...

Didn't the C10 have 'normal' buttons for that?

Don't know- never had a C-10, never sat on a C-10 or worked on a C-10. I am new to Concours with the -14. And twice a year, I have to fumble and stumble through the process to re- set the clock on that. It is easy enough so I do not need the manual but just complex enough that I cannot remember which button sequence (exactly) does the deed. Hey, at least I knew what time it was when another vehicle struck me, right? Hey, I even knew the temperature.



 

Brian

Didn't the C10 have 'normal' buttons for that?

Oh my..

It's like that on my Toyotas...  I finally set the corrected time on my C14 last Saturday.  Took 10 minutes of guessing which button did what...

Resetting the oil maintenance required message on my wife's Highlander was a half hour random trial and error the first couple of times. What a PITA!

Yeah, it's different on my 13 Prius as opposed to the 2005.  Thank goodness I found a You Tube vid on it as I have to do the 30k maintenance shortly.

This was an 08 Highlander Limited with the color LCD info screen. The secret sauce was that with the car running you have to select trip odometer A (not B) on the speedo, not the LCD, turn off the car then follow the instructions in the manual.

Same thing with ours but you have to press the MPH/KMPH button at the same time with the Power button on off and on.

Not so bad- in fact, I think that will all buff out.





I know what you are thinking.... Geeeez Brian, didn't you see that other bike coming at you?



Nope, hit from behind and was watching a vintage Mustang approach the intersection I was stopped at. So was the guy behind me unfortunately.

But gee whiz Brian, was anybody hurt?



Nope, unlike 'The Cat' of 'The Cat Joke (TM)' fame, everyone was fine- no personal damage. My wife did not even go over with the bike but rather did a quick foot shuffle and stood up (we had zero forward speed). So no harm done..... other than my bike wrote just over $4,500 in damage.

Brian


Brian

Oh my..

What about the other guy?

You mean the OTHER '08 C-14? Yeah, he took his damage in the headlight bucket, front fairings, also the right mirror snapped off EXACTLY like mine (we could not tell what parts went with what bike right off) and a little damage to his front fender. He never went down (Easy Boys! I meant on that bike!) and suffered no personal injury at all. I believe his bike is at the local dealer getting fixed right now.



Now for the amusing part: we were riding together to a COG M&G that I put on. We continued on and made the lunch and ride afterward but he chose to ride home. Both bikes were ridden away from the scene.

And perhaps most important of all, Mr. Elkhoof was not hurt. He was knocked askew on his normal perch, and I was concerned about him but discovered he was OK. I was happy about that. I really do not know what the police officer thought of him when I showed her that he was unhurt.... at least by that day's motorcycle accident (he did have a particularly bad day back in the woods of Washington state some time ago).    I bet it was the LEO's 'funnest' accident that day at work though. :-)

Brian

What about the other guy?

I've never met you in person but I could just imagine...

Well Jim, I figure it is like this: I simply get around the fact that I appear to be mortal and cannot go on forever. It is not the deal I would have picked but hey, it is not my universe, I merely live here. So given that, I try to take most things with a grain of salt and can virtually always find some way to amuse myself (NOT like THAT- Easy Boys!) in about any situation. I then simply share my amusement with those around me- if they see it as humorous, great. If not, well at least it did not cost them anything.

So hey, just because you are at a [vehicular accident / hospital / funeral / holding cell, ad infinitum) does not mean there is no humor there. And I can almost always find it.....  My youngest son is showing signs of having the same 'gift', or is that burden? One day happened to make his wife quite angry and she was not speaking to him for a bit (nothing big, just a very usual human interaction that we have all had). A little while later, he and I were leaving to go do something.... he stepped outside and then leaned back inside and said in a very loud voice and sharp tone: "Brandi! I want you to sit there and think about what I've done!". I tells ya', I almost wet myself laughing. My wife did not find it that amusing but perhaps a little, and Brandi saw absolutely no humor in it. But overall, on average (and don't forget the average contains both Mr. Elkhoof and Kirby), the consensus was that it was rather funny.

Brian

I've never met you in person but I could just imagine...

That's good.  I'll try that one on my wife....every week or so.

...And twice a year, I have to fumble and stumble through the process to re- set the clock on that...

Up here (last winter anyway) that's not a problem, because the time changes after you have to put it away, and again before you can get it back out...

Jamie

Up here (last winter anyway) that's not a problem, because the time changes after you have to put it away, and again before you can get it back out...

Jamie

That really sucks.