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cathyr19355) wrote2005-09-24 12:06 am
cathyr19355) wrote2005-09-24 12:06 am
Attack of the Car Demon, Part Deux
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jmaynard was right--the only thing wrong with the car turned out to be a bad battery. If only the battery had crapped out two days sooner, while the car was still in the shop undergoing annual state inspection, it would have saved me some time and stress if not money. Ed, my mechanic, tells me that most car batteries today have a 5-year warranty, and he put my last one in 5 years ago. Figures. :-(
In any event, I got the car back for a measly $140 ($89 for the new battery, the rest for labor). So things could have been a lot worse.
On the other hand, the new motor in my *car's* A/C system, the new motor Ed put in when I had the car inspected because the old one was whining annoyingly, has suddenly decided to work only when I have the fan set at the highest possible setting. Why, oh why can't anything I've gotten fixed lately *stay* fixed?
jmaynard was right--the only thing wrong with the car turned out to be a bad battery. If only the battery had crapped out two days sooner, while the car was still in the shop undergoing annual state inspection, it would have saved me some time and stress if not money. Ed, my mechanic, tells me that most car batteries today have a 5-year warranty, and he put my last one in 5 years ago. Figures. :-(In any event, I got the car back for a measly $140 ($89 for the new battery, the rest for labor). So things could have been a lot worse.
On the other hand, the new motor in my *car's* A/C system, the new motor Ed put in when I had the car inspected because the old one was whining annoyingly, has suddenly decided to work only when I have the fan set at the highest possible setting. Why, oh why can't anything I've gotten fixed lately *stay* fixed?
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I've become a great believer in using Consumer Reports to suss out good used cars. That's how I selected the last two cars I bought, and they've both done pretty well.