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Had my final exam on Tuesday (the 11th), wasn’t too bad. Unlike the majority of my exams, this one was extremely vague in the sense that you didn’t know what was going to be on the exam. Did alright, but will probably be a case of hit or miss for the marks methinks.
At least for the project worth 60% of the unit I got 90%, so I’ve already passed.

After the exam a uni mate Jesse and I swung past a BWS to grab some beers for his bro. Within 5 minutes of driving off though, the car started making weird noises and smelling. Pulling over, could smell that something had burnt in the engine bay, and the car was refusing to start.

Gave Holden a call, got the RACV to come out, said the same thing…get it towed. So far this had been working smoothly and efficiently. At 6:30 we put in the tow truck request. We sat there on the side of the road, drinking the beers we just bought (ugh Corona’s without lemon/lime) waiting for 90 minutes for this dude to rock up. The only consolation we had was ringing Holden back and chatting up the service chicks…awesome.

Once the tow truck finally arrived, and towed us a whole 1k or so up to Penfold Holden in Burwood, gave Devin a ring and he came and picked us up. Ended the whole escapade by playing the new Guitar Hero World Tour thingie for most of the night, so it turned out all right.

Turns out the ignition barrel (pretty much the ignition switch) had melted in the heat, and gotten stuckin the ‘on’ position…meaning the starter motor was kicking over for 5 minutes constantly while driving. 1 dead starter motor, one dead ignition barrel. Lucky no wiring got damaged I spose…