Its offical I am an idiot. But a lucky idiot thankfully.
Today I wanted to work on my Peugeot so I drove me Saab over to my neighbor's garage (where I keep my peugeot in storage). I left the Saab running while I opened up the garage and got the peugeot backed out. Then I drove it back to my place and did some work on it for about an hour. Let the peugeot run up to operating temperature for 20 or so minutes, and then worked with my dad on one of his projects for like another hour and a half. I thought it would be a good idea to get my keys out of my Saab before I went to lunch, then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I never turned the ignition off and I left it running for the past three hours, just sitting there over at my neighbor's house idling away. SO i literally sprint my dumb self over there, all the while expecting to see my daily driver sitting in a pool of coolant and oil while white smoke is billowing out of the engine bay as the car meticulosly idles itself to death. But when I got there I was quite suprised to find it was fine, the temp guage needle was right in the middle between hot and cold and the car was just sitting there running suprisingly perfect. Thank god it was a relatively cool day and I parked it in the shade. I've never felt so lucky before. If the coolant fans would have stopped working, a hose broke, or the thermostate stuck I would have a mutilated, cooked engine. The only downside was it sucked down about 1/4th of the gas while it sat there and idled for 3 hours, it was premium too (now $2.83 a gallon). But thats a small price to pay for my incredible negligance. So i think some one up there must like me.
Today I wanted to work on my Peugeot so I drove me Saab over to my neighbor's garage (where I keep my peugeot in storage). I left the Saab running while I opened up the garage and got the peugeot backed out. Then I drove it back to my place and did some work on it for about an hour. Let the peugeot run up to operating temperature for 20 or so minutes, and then worked with my dad on one of his projects for like another hour and a half. I thought it would be a good idea to get my keys out of my Saab before I went to lunch, then it hit me like a ton of bricks. I never turned the ignition off and I left it running for the past three hours, just sitting there over at my neighbor's house idling away. SO i literally sprint my dumb self over there, all the while expecting to see my daily driver sitting in a pool of coolant and oil while white smoke is billowing out of the engine bay as the car meticulosly idles itself to death. But when I got there I was quite suprised to find it was fine, the temp guage needle was right in the middle between hot and cold and the car was just sitting there running suprisingly perfect. Thank god it was a relatively cool day and I parked it in the shade. I've never felt so lucky before. If the coolant fans would have stopped working, a hose broke, or the thermostate stuck I would have a mutilated, cooked engine. The only downside was it sucked down about 1/4th of the gas while it sat there and idled for 3 hours, it was premium too (now $2.83 a gallon). But thats a small price to pay for my incredible negligance. So i think some one up there must like me.