When getting that cheap game goes wrong...

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Wow. What a night lol...

I was offered a game at a price i could not refuse. Its a atari road burners(1999) by the way.

Anyways i had to move it TONIGHT... in the "great snowstorm of 2013" and it was located in the chi burbs.

My wife pleaded for me not to go. Friends said not to go. "dont do it" they said. "its not worth your life" they said. Well let me tell you, they were kinda right but for the wrong reason lol.

The weather, roads, traffic were honestly fine. My buddy and i made it in record time. We got the game loaded into my van with no issues, and when tipping it in a bunch of tokens came out.... well, we have come all this way... might as well play some games in the arcade right?


So i park the van, lock it up and come back in. We play some games. Fun times had by all.

About 7:30 we decided we better hit the road. I cannot find my van key. Shit.. maybe its in the other pocket.. nope. Retrace my steps through the building.... nada. Using a metal rod from some landscaping i popped the side glass latched of my van and break in... No key in the van either.. what....the....fuck. Retraced my steps teo more times.. key is just gone. I guess it fell out of my pocket as i walked back to the building.. FEEk.. so the next 2 hours we chip away at my steering column.. now it cranks but wont start due to antitheft system. Bypassed that crap, finally, its alive!!! I just got home. This game just cost me a whole lot more money man... Fun times.
 
yeah in the burbs id have an impound fee of several thousand dollars by then lol


I guess im driving the van g-style for awhile lol
 
Wow. What a night lol...

I was offered a game at a price i could not refuse. Its a atari road burners(1999) by the way.

Anyways i had to move it TONIGHT... in the "great snowstorm of 2013" and it was located in the chi burbs.

My wife pleaded for me not to go. Friends said not to go. "dont do it" they said. "its not worth your life" they said. Well let me tell you, they were kinda right but for the wrong reason lol.

The weather, roads, traffic were honestly fine. My buddy and i made it in record time. We got the game loaded into my van with no issues, and when tipping it in a bunch of tokens came out.... well, we have come all this way... might as well play some games in the arcade right?


So i park the van, lock it up and come back in. We play some games. Fun times had by all.

About 7:30 we decided we better hit the road. I cannot find my van key. Shit.. maybe its in the other pocket.. nope. Retrace my steps through the building.... nada. Using a metal rod from some landscaping i popped the side glass latched of my van and break in... No key in the van either.. what....the....fuck. Retraced my steps teo more times.. key is just gone. I guess it fell out of my pocket as i walked back to the building.. FEEk.. so the next 2 hours we chip away at my steering column.. now it cranks but wont start due to antitheft system. Bypassed that crap, finally, its alive!!! I just got home. This game just cost me a whole lot more money man... Fun times.


look in the junkyards for used steering columns with keys. they should cost between 80.00-150.00. there are also numerous on the internet.
not as bad as you think. on my gmc i installed the new column and had to do certain ignition on/off procedures for it to recognize new chip.
cost me 80.00 and 2 hrs labor (mine)
 
My truck starts without the key in the ignition. :D Not sure how that is even achieved as it just started to happen one day.
 
lost key

I use a Realtor Lock. I put the Lock on underside side of my trucks. Just put a lot of Lock Ease in it since we get to deal with all of this snow and salt.

It has Saved me several times.

RJ
 
What's the point in the anti-theft systems if you can easily bypass those as well? Sounds like they don't do much?
 
you have to understand how it operates and most crooks with a hammer and crowbar only know how to smash not smash with finesse(tm)

If this would have been a couple years newer i would have been sol as those are transponder keys. If it would have not been so late i could have bought a key from the gm dealer down the road...
 
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Wow. What a night lol...

I was offered a game at a price i could not refuse. Its a atari road burners(1999) by the way.

Anyways i had to move it TONIGHT... in the "great snowstorm of 2013" and it was located in the chi burbs.

My wife pleaded for me not to go. Friends said not to go. "dont do it" they said. "its not worth your life" they said. Well let me tell you, they were kinda right but for the wrong reason lol.

The weather, roads, traffic were honestly fine. My buddy and i made it in record time. We got the game loaded into my van with no issues, and when tipping it in a bunch of tokens came out.... well, we have come all this way... might as well play some games in the arcade right?


So i park the van, lock it up and come back in. We play some games. Fun times had by all.

About 7:30 we decided we better hit the road. I cannot find my van key. Shit.. maybe its in the other pocket.. nope. Retrace my steps through the building.... nada. Using a metal rod from some landscaping i popped the side glass latched of my van and break in... No key in the van either.. what....the....fuck. Retraced my steps teo more times.. key is just gone. I guess it fell out of my pocket as i walked back to the building.. FEEk.. so the next 2 hours we chip away at my steering column.. now it cranks but wont start due to antitheft system. Bypassed that crap, finally, its alive!!! I just got home. This game just cost me a whole lot more money man... Fun times.

Pics or it didn't happen. JK
 
i went through a similar instance, only to realize after everything was said and done, the key was actually in my pocket (sort of)!! DOH! There was a tiny auxiliary pocket :confused: for lack of a better term inside my normal Levi's jeans pocket which i never happened to notice....ever! My key was in a pocket inside of my pocket, and I couldn't feel the key when i put my hand in my pocket because the denim was thick enough to make me not be able to feel it.
 
you have to understand how it operates and most crooks with a hammer and crowbar only know how to smash not smash with finesse(tm)

If this would have been a couple years newer i would have been sol as those are transponder keys. If it would have not been so late i could have bought a key from the gm dealer down the road...

Oh, I forgot -- you're a mechanic so you have a much greater knowledge of these things than the average crook. OK, that makes more sense.
 
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