In an effort to avoid this, I have run the truck (his name is Jorge, after Jorge Pasada) several times, and I even backed it up with the trailer a couple times to get hay delivered and the manure dumpster emptied. I went to start it last week again when it was cooler out, and it struggled a little but then started right up. I ran it for awhile, then turned it off. Then started it once more later in the day to make sure it was good. Which it seemed to be. But then, on Sunday, I finally was like, okay, I need to unhook the trailer and use the truck this week so I can run it some before hauling horses to their winter home next week. It was a cold rainy day. And trucky was like NOPE! He would NOT turn over. Flat out refused. I even tried again later in the day. It would light up and the radio would come on, but it couldn't turn itself over. Sigh. I figured it must be the battery. I planned to call Monday to have someone out to replace the battery, but it was pouring rain all day and figured no one wanted to deal with that in the rain. So I waited until today. It was a dreary day here, overcast and foggy most of the day, but also really warm. Hit 70 actually for a couple hours. So the guy gets here, and he goes alright show me what it's doing. So I get it in, and wouldn't you know it, Jorge just starts right up! First try!
The mechanic laughed. Me too honestly. You have to! But I told him, I swear it wouldn't start the other day, and the only difference was that it was cold. So he agreed it was likely the battery. Low batteries hate the cold. So we swapped out the more corroded of the two. Jorge started up even better than the time before, so I'm pretty confident he got what he needed. Time will tell of course. My luck it won't start when I need it to, but I'll for sure get the trailer unhooked in the next few days and drive the truck around a bit.
Anyone else just ignore past lessons? Like I knew this would happen, but I let it happen anyway. Just me?
