When it rains..
Last weekend I spent some time working on the Ogwife’s car, ther’s a leak that’s been evading me and I tried to find it, to no avail. Still, I got the oil changed and did some other normal maintenance work.
Problem was, I let the other car see me doing it. Usually, I just keep one car in the garage at a time, when I’m working, but sunday I wasn’t doing anything too difficult, so i left the truck inside.
Big mistake. Usually, I can go to the auto parts store and pick up supplies in whichever car isn’t dismantled, and it happyly goes along. Letting them both sit in the same garage, though, one got jealous enough that it felt it needed some money spent on it too. So today, on the way into work, the Exploder decides it needs a new alternator.
$300 later, (towing plus parts) I’m back on the road, and feel a kinship with the Goatse guy. Damned jealous cars.
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Just make sure that one of your cars is a Honda. Then you’ve only got to worry about one of ’em… ;)
Wife’s car is a Honda. Biggest piece of shit I ever worked on in my life. I cannot stop it from leaking oil, and it has eaten component after component. Last year it lunched it’s entire front suspension, upper/lower arms, struts, inner/outer CV joints, all just deteriorated away to shit. I wouldn’t wish that car on anyone.
Interesting. I’ve only heard good things from other Honda owners, and at my work alone there’s at least a dozen people who own Accords or Civics…
We’ve had ours for five years and had exactly one problem with it: the heat shield came loose. Given that I pound that poor car over some spectacularly bad roads, that ain’t surprising.
Oh well, then, forget my comment…
LOL! Jay, I think most honda’s are fine cars- it’s just THIS ONE, and it’s just to make my life hell. They know, I’m telling you!!!
A-freakin’-men, og…
They ALSO know when you’ve come into some money.
Like last year, right after I got my performance bonus, and the FIVE YEAR OLD furnace in my house died… Frickin’ boiler block cracked.
Did I mention that it was only five years old???
Yep. There’s a corollary to the laws of perversity of nature that machinery has the ability to sense a bank account.
Og, I may have to stop reading here. I read this post last night and thought I felt your pain.
Tonight, on my way to work, MY charging system took a dump. I’m currently waiting on the tow truck and then for the parts place to open.
I tried autoblogging at RNS. Shortly after my first post, my laptop’s video card died. After my second post, our server crapped. I stopped writing about cars in the fear of bringing down the entire internet.
I swear, compters and cars are jealous of each other or some such thing.
Oh well, I guess I didn’t need to buy that Burris Black Diamond 8-32×50 scope I have been saving for over two months this month anyway.
Aw, sheesh, kid, I didn’t mean to jinx you. Don’t read my site near your garage. Or, make sure you computer isn’t connected to your car,r mayube just can’t see it.
And whatever the hell you do, stay away from the utilities area of your house…
Or at least mine…
hehe! yep, when I moved into this house, in less than a month we had to replace the less than 10 year old furnace. It just never ends.
Aww, just givin’ you a hard time Og. $500+ later, we’re back on the road. It was probably my own sloth that caused it anyway. Same battery since factory in an 8yr old truck.
A couple of handshakes and some good deeds and I’ll probably still be able to get that scope.
I just have to bang my head and wonder why I bought a vehicle previously owned by the guy who owns the dealership. It’s one of the first off the line of the new body type F-150’s (intro’d in 97, this one was built in Aug 96). The guy wanted the Lariat package, but Ford hadn’t quite figured that pkg out yet. He ended up getting what he wanted, though it was still labeled an XLT, and left me with needing the most expensive alternator and battery I’ve seen in a long time (and I’ve worked at Toy/Lex ships).
I scared the piss out of the guy behind the counter. When he told me the price, I said “I’ll take two”. I could have knocked him over with one of those good dry farts you spoke about a while back.