I'm not big of a car person. I like them to run, but I'm more into their utility than their style. There have only been two exceptions to this. When I was very young (before I could drive), I though have a red Corvette would be da bomb. I grew out of that. My fave car as an adult was a red (yes, there's a theme here) Celica. I loved that car. But, it got drowned in the garage during a flood when I lived near Boston (sniff).
As you can imagine, little red sports cars aren't the rage in Beantown. I looked and looked for another red Celica. More importantly, a red CONVERTIBLE Celica. But, they were nowhere to be found. I wanted one then and I still do, though it's somewhat impracticle now.
So, this morning, I'm driving the HB to camp and find myself, you guessed it, right behind a red CONVERTIBLE Celica. Sigh...
When I got home, I searched on Craigslist and found one pretty quickly. I'm not sure if I can rationalize this, but I may try.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Mah Babee's Sick!
Yesterday I'm with the NZS2 and the HB coming back from some errands and my fave burger joint when all kinds of lights start showing up on the dashboard of the Prius. We were on the freeway, so I pull over into the emergency lane and check the owner's manual on what all this means. All it said for this combination was, "Get to a dealer immediately, dumbshit." Fortunately, we were close to the place where I bought it.
We pull in and I start talking to a guy with Service on the desk nameplate. He proceeds to tell me that they can't look at it until Monday (we're 30 miles from home), blah, blah, blah. So, I ask him if it's safe to drive the dealer closest to my house. He says, "I dunno. I don't know anything about the cars, I just schedule the servicing." WTF? Since it's not smelling or making bad noises, I decide to drive it back.
Paying much more attention to it, I notice that the engine is occasionally surging and that the AC no longer works. Armed with this info, I call the dealer near my house and talk to someone who knows something about service. He seems to think that I'll be able to make it there (and, if not, I've got AAA) and they can take a look at it (by now it's pushing 2:30 and they close at 4:30). We make it there with no problem and my wife picks us up. The service dude calls back at 4:15 and says that the inverter pump. There's some disagreement on Prius chat sites as to whether this is engineering problem with the car or not. Mine's got 75k miles, so who knows.
The best news is that fixing it is still under warranty. We'll have to scramble a bit on Monday morning as I normally take the HB to school and the wife has some morning meetings, but we'll make it work.
We pull in and I start talking to a guy with Service on the desk nameplate. He proceeds to tell me that they can't look at it until Monday (we're 30 miles from home), blah, blah, blah. So, I ask him if it's safe to drive the dealer closest to my house. He says, "I dunno. I don't know anything about the cars, I just schedule the servicing." WTF? Since it's not smelling or making bad noises, I decide to drive it back.
Paying much more attention to it, I notice that the engine is occasionally surging and that the AC no longer works. Armed with this info, I call the dealer near my house and talk to someone who knows something about service. He seems to think that I'll be able to make it there (and, if not, I've got AAA) and they can take a look at it (by now it's pushing 2:30 and they close at 4:30). We make it there with no problem and my wife picks us up. The service dude calls back at 4:15 and says that the inverter pump. There's some disagreement on Prius chat sites as to whether this is engineering problem with the car or not. Mine's got 75k miles, so who knows.
The best news is that fixing it is still under warranty. We'll have to scramble a bit on Monday morning as I normally take the HB to school and the wife has some morning meetings, but we'll make it work.
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