Friday, September 10, 2021

Car Trouble (Yet Again)

Last Thursday was Back to School Night, the night when parents are invited to campus and the teachers present what their classes are about. This is not something that I generally have to deal with, but since I started a long term subbing assignment, I was required to cover it. 

While we are in person for school, the district decided that we'd do Back to School Night virtually, although they'd require the teachers to do the presentations from campus. 

I was on a long term in April when we did Open House, which is a similar type of thing (although it's more of a "what we did this year" event). 

For Open House, I figured it would be easier to stay on campus from the end of the school day until after Open House. With Back to School Night looming, I looked back on that decision, and figured that I'd rather come home after school and just go back later in the evening. (The Open House day ended up being very long.) 

Little did I know how much I'd need that time.

The day prior, my roommate noticed a spot on the ground where I park my car. When I arrived home after school on Thursday, that spot had grown quite a bit. (From a spot to a puddle a good six inches across.) This was a leak that needed to be dealt with immediately.

But I had just taken my car in for repairs!!! Twice. (I took it in for some routine maintenance in June.)

And, the garage I take my car to has been so very, very busy. I figured I'd be car-less for at least a week. Again. 

It was the middle of the day, so I was able to drop off my car. (And my roommates were kind enough to give me rides from the garage, to and from Back to School, and to and from work on Friday.) 

Friday afternoon the repair shop called. It turns out that some gasket that they installed in June is defective. Which means the repair is UNDER WARRANTY! 

At least that's good news. It was still going to take them a few days to complete repairs. Hopefully by the time you read this all will be done and I'll once again have a car. Fingers crossed.

19 comments:

  1. Unbelievable! Someone actually gets use out of a warranty!

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  2. Under warranty and it was honored. Historic occasion! (I hope you have your car back, too).

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  3. I also got my finger cross for you.
    Coffee is on and stay safe

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  4. Yeah! At least it's not so dramatic, even if being car-less is not fun

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  5. It's never a good time for a car to lie down on the job, so to speak, but it was almost worth it to have a genuine "under warranty" experience.

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  6. How frustrating with the car! I'm glad they can fix it under warranty but it must be so annoying it continually needs repairs!

    Hope you are having a nice weekend :) Busy Sunday here, after 3 parties yesterday we have another one to go to today!

    Away From The Blue

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    1. It's an old car. I hadn't taken it in for routine maintenance for a while, so it was overdue.

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  7. WOW...if there is ever going to be good news when it comes to car repairs, that one was good.

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    1. It was. Except for the being car-less for a week part ;)

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  8. This happens many a times. A good and OK running part turns out to be defective during routine servicing. Not an intentional fault but just plain bad luck.

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  9. Good it's in warranty, and they didn't find some weird reason not to honour it.
    When machines fail it's so frustrating.

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  10. That's great that it's under warranty. I hope you have it back by now.

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