3711

Well... after coming back from our SPA county trip... we're supposed to go to Footscray's Gold Leaf for a good chinese food dinner... (have been there before, the food was good, and the price wasn't too expensive, the place is pretty cosy too!!)

Then... maybe we're too exhausted, or we're too blur, or whatever #$!%$@^ reason, somehow we triggered off our car's anti-theft alarm and that, the whole car is disabled!!!!!!!! DISABLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! even though we can power-on the rest of the equipments, and off the alarm, but we couldn't start the engine..

When it first happened, we didn't realise how 'serious' the problem is, still went up to our apartment, discussing what to order later, and took a short nap...
then, we went down to the basement carpark after half an hour of rest, only discovered that, the whole car was disabled... %@$^%#&*$%^%$##$# there goes our great dinner plan...
Then, we pulled out the car manual (for the first time) and start browsing through to see if there's any solution...
before we decided to resolve the thing ourselves, I was already thinking what will happen the next day...
the next day, by right, we're supposed to continue our weekend driving trip, to Williamstown, IKEA to grab a copy of the new product catalogue and so on...
I was telling myself... if we don't get this resolved, then, the next day, the whole 'picture' will be overturned, to...
waking up early, stressed, calling the rental company, asking one of those people and telling them about this problem... that, maybe they'll ask us to try to look at the manual and try it ourselves first, cos, on a Sunday, I don't think they'll be happy to travel far just to solve a problem where 2 idiots who accidentally disabled their own(rented) car.. and I'm scared that, this will be chargeable... then, if even they also couldn't solve it over the phone, before they tried it themselves, they might just decide to give it a big round, ask a tow truck to come and tow away our car...
THEN... we, not just have only 1 day driving experience, but need to pay for all these extra services, and on top of that, feel damn shitty!!!!!!!
so, 2 of us, start reading the manual with extreme cautious, to see if there's any hint of solving the above issue..
the whole manual with some other small manuals were all in a small little plastic folder pack... I started to dig here and there, flipped it inside out, then, a small credit card-size card fell down, it'd some numbers on top, and with this 'security code' 3711... from the manual description, this figure somehow fit into the 'solution'... as, the manual said that, we need a 4-digit security number, and we'd have to switch the power on and off, according to the number, for eg. 3, then, on-off 3 time, wait for 3-10 sec, then, 7---> on-off 7 time and so on... finally, when the 'car lock' sign is 'illuminated', we've to start the engine immediately, within 30 sec, otherwise, it's considered failed...

Our first attempt failed, as we didn't quite understand the manul fully... so, we went to take our dinner just across the street, an indian restaurant AMEER... as THE MANUAL SAID, if any 3 trial(in a session) fails, then, we've to wait for one hour!!! (I've already foreseen, and imagined that, probably the whole night we'd had to come down to the basement every 1 hour just to try to switch it on)
After our dinner... we went back to try again... this time change hand... I did the work, and he read the manul... 1st trial, failed, 2nd trial, no result, 3rd trial, nearly no result, last minute, he shouted, "switch on the engine"... VROOM!!!!!!!
we shook hand in the end ^_^V