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plonqHere in my car
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live
In cars
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atara's car to our usual garage today to get a few things checked out, and to get it ready for the winter (yes, even with the weather as warm has it has been here this week, winter is just around the corner in these parts). While there is nothing major wrong with the car, there has been a series of little things that have been cropping up over time.
- The "Service Engine Soon" light has been coming on lately. Sometimes it will go out on its own, but in the past couple of weeks it has been staying on more than off.
- Every couple of weeks the car's idle will jump to around 2k and stick there.
- The electric trunk release broke
- the brake light sporadically cuts out (we knew that this was just a flaky bulb, but figured we may as well get them to just drop in a new bulb while they had the car anyway)
They managed to find and fix the problems with the Service Engine light, and the sticking idle (coming in at about $175 total for parts). They by-passed a broken plug to fix the trunk release, which also fixed the license plate light (which we didn't even know was broken).
We expected them to squawk about the brakes, but they pronounced them good for at least another year. We got the coolant flushed and replaced since that's something we've never had done, and we figured that we may as well get the oil changed while it was in there anyway. In the end, it came out to a bit more than I was expecting it to cost, and less thanatara was anticipating. The car is starting to show its age, but we've taken good care of it, and it is holding together well. I expect to get at least 2-3 more good years out of it.
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live
In cars
We took
atara's car to our usual garage today to get a few things checked out, and to get it ready for the winter (yes, even with the weather as warm has it has been here this week, winter is just around the corner in these parts). While there is nothing major wrong with the car, there has been a series of little things that have been cropping up over time.- The "Service Engine Soon" light has been coming on lately. Sometimes it will go out on its own, but in the past couple of weeks it has been staying on more than off.
- Every couple of weeks the car's idle will jump to around 2k and stick there.
- The electric trunk release broke
- the brake light sporadically cuts out (we knew that this was just a flaky bulb, but figured we may as well get them to just drop in a new bulb while they had the car anyway)
They managed to find and fix the problems with the Service Engine light, and the sticking idle (coming in at about $175 total for parts). They by-passed a broken plug to fix the trunk release, which also fixed the license plate light (which we didn't even know was broken).
We expected them to squawk about the brakes, but they pronounced them good for at least another year. We got the coolant flushed and replaced since that's something we've never had done, and we figured that we may as well get the oil changed while it was in there anyway. In the end, it came out to a bit more than I was expecting it to cost, and less than
atara was anticipating. The car is starting to show its age, but we've taken good care of it, and it is holding together well. I expect to get at least 2-3 more good years out of it.
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Date: 2009-09-11 11:55 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-09-11 01:14 pm (UTC)I thought you were talking about the new car. Now that I've re-read the post, I have no idea why I thought so :(