Attack of the Car Demon, Part Deux

[cathyr19355]

It turns out that 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?

Comments

[jmaynard.livejournal.com]

That failure is probably not the blower motor if, as I suspect from your description, it doesn't turn at all unless you set the fan to high. There's a resistor pack that's used to drop the voltage going to the blower motor for lower speeds, and that has probably failed. When the fan control is set to high, that resistor pack is out of the circuit.

[mirell.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way in everything I own falling apart...

Different mechanic?

[pmat.livejournal.com]

Depending on how thoroughly you trust your mechanic, you might consider switching. We have had very good luck indeed with Paoli Auto, behind the Wawa in Paoli. As far as I can judge after 20 years of taking cars to them they are both incredibly competent and completely honest.