Car Repairs (again)
So my car has been making some funny noises up front lately. Guess where I am? I'm waiting at Belle Tire to see what's wrong with it. It's something up front and with the tires or alignment or steering or something...
We'll see how it goes. It's a little busy here, probably some people who want to get their car fixed before they travel for the holiday. I've spent $700-ish each of the last two times I had service so I'm hoping it's not too bad. It's only a 2000 so it's not that old, it's at 56,000 miles and I take pretty good care of it (oil, tires, brakes, etc.).
FYI - Michael Moore is on the television in the waiting room (it's like a hospital, we're all just waiting to hear how bad the news is). IT's some C-Span broadcast from Mott Community College in Flint, Michigan from last Sunday. He's such a dork. I'm not talking about his views (I wasn't listening that much) just that he's a goof (very gracious though).
So as I'm writing the previous sentence he's started talking with the sign interpreter on the stage making her do “tricks” showing different signs and such. Not really appropriate, it's not why she's there. At least it's not in my experiences with deaf culture. Maybe it's different since she's doing the television show but I'm thinking it's not.
So my ears just picked up a bit. He's talking about the auto companies and how foreign cars last so much longer and how/why the american car companies are closing things down (lots of closing and layoffs in the Detroit/Flint area lately, with more soon). My car is not foreign although I've had to do very little service on foreign cars I've owned.
PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 11:22 AM on November 23, 2005.
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My Front End
So it's something in the front end. The plate where tires get bolted on. I actually thought it was something like that (I checked to make sure the bolts were tight).
(Technical words that I didn't really write down or listen to were removed to protect the non-technical)So we work out the details and such. The right side is worse but I get both sides done. Like I said, I do try to take care of it.
Them (Sales and Repair guys): So it's the thingy in the front end where the tires attach to the front of the car. (Or something like that)
Me: I've had a lot of work done in the front before...? (they generally have good warrantees so I wanted to make sure it wasn't something I already did)
Sales guy: No, not at all, you've had ____, _____, _____ and _____ done before. (I'm sure my eyes glaze over like I see when I'm explaining gigabytes and ram and firewire and WiFi to others)
Me: That's not all in the front end?
Repair guy: Laughs (at sales guy and says) yeah that's all in the front end.
Sales guy: It'll be about two hoursIf it's not ready, I know they'll blame it on getting the part. Like I said, even 8 hours would have been fine, I just want to go do stuff. And it's cold and wet (wet snow, actually) out so it's a hassle to walk home if it's only 2 hours. If it wasn't wet, I'd just bundle up and rollerblade home and not think twice about it.
Me: You sure?
Repair guy: Yeah that's about right.
Me: You're really sure? Four hours is okay, but I'll go do something else if it's really longer than two hours.
Them: They pretty much promise it'll be about 2 hours... (We'll see)
So I'm at Burger King, which is about 20-25% of the way home. I'm eating the wonderful Chicken Tendercrisp sandwich and unlimited Coca-Cola and enjoying theur semi-wireless Internet access (which is pretty much what I'd probably be doing if I was home). It's only semi-wireless since it's wired but my AirPort Express makes it wireless for me...
PLEASE Leave comments (or trackbacks/pings)Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 12:46 PM on November 23, 2005.
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I'm all fixed now.
End results:
Posted by Gary on Wednesday at 4:17 PM on November 23, 2005.
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