Some Good Luck For Once
My car has been making a weird grinding noise when I go around corners. It's been doing that for more than a month now. Unfortunately, with my schedule the way it is, I never had time to bring it to a shop to get it checked out. I kept thinking next week, next week. Not to mention the money situation is still miserable, and I wasn't looking forward to hearing that I needed to spend $1000 on that piece of crap. But I don't need the car tomorrow, so I thought today would be a good day to get it down there. I'm so glad I did.
I dropped the car off, told them to do an oil change and to find out what was wrong, but just to do the estimate, not any work. I was thinking whatever it was, I've lived with it for over a month, I could wait till next week to get the work done. But the guy called me minutes after I got back home. He took the car out for a test drive and as he went around the first corner, my axle just fell apart. He had to push it back to the shop. So, whether I liked it or not, I had to get it fixed right then and there.
Now, I did call this good news. The first part of the good news is that it waited to fall apart until after I dropped it off at the shop. It could have happened on the way to or home from work today. Could have happened the other day when I went to my hubby's work to drop off insurance paperwork. Could have happened when I had my daughter in the car. But no, it happened literally minutes after I bring it to a shop. That's the first piece of good luck I've had in awhile. The second piece of good luck was being told that they could get a refurbished (sp?) axle for about $120 and the whole deal, including the oil change, should be about $250. Not bad. I mean, I can handle that. I was thinking it would be closer to $1000. So I'm happy about that. Third piece of good luck, the car will be done tomorrow afternoon, so I don't have to live without a car for very long at all. :)
So, I just thought I'd post my car experience because you all are so used to reading about me being miserable. Change of pace for y'all. :)
I also want to thank everyone who emailed me after the last post. I haven't been able to get back to you all yet, but I will. Just know that your kind thoughts and support really helped get me out of that funk. You guys rock!
Till next time....
My car has been making a weird grinding noise when I go around corners. It's been doing that for more than a month now. Unfortunately, with my schedule the way it is, I never had time to bring it to a shop to get it checked out. I kept thinking next week, next week. Not to mention the money situation is still miserable, and I wasn't looking forward to hearing that I needed to spend $1000 on that piece of crap. But I don't need the car tomorrow, so I thought today would be a good day to get it down there. I'm so glad I did.
I dropped the car off, told them to do an oil change and to find out what was wrong, but just to do the estimate, not any work. I was thinking whatever it was, I've lived with it for over a month, I could wait till next week to get the work done. But the guy called me minutes after I got back home. He took the car out for a test drive and as he went around the first corner, my axle just fell apart. He had to push it back to the shop. So, whether I liked it or not, I had to get it fixed right then and there.
Now, I did call this good news. The first part of the good news is that it waited to fall apart until after I dropped it off at the shop. It could have happened on the way to or home from work today. Could have happened the other day when I went to my hubby's work to drop off insurance paperwork. Could have happened when I had my daughter in the car. But no, it happened literally minutes after I bring it to a shop. That's the first piece of good luck I've had in awhile. The second piece of good luck was being told that they could get a refurbished (sp?) axle for about $120 and the whole deal, including the oil change, should be about $250. Not bad. I mean, I can handle that. I was thinking it would be closer to $1000. So I'm happy about that. Third piece of good luck, the car will be done tomorrow afternoon, so I don't have to live without a car for very long at all. :)
So, I just thought I'd post my car experience because you all are so used to reading about me being miserable. Change of pace for y'all. :)
I also want to thank everyone who emailed me after the last post. I haven't been able to get back to you all yet, but I will. Just know that your kind thoughts and support really helped get me out of that funk. You guys rock!
Till next time....
posted by Meghan at 6:48 PM
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