May I Whine?

Today went so well until my drive home. As I'm leaving the parking lot, my battery and brake lights are on. I call Karl, tell him - but really don't know what to do (the parking brake was disengaged). Call my dad to ask him what's up and they turn off.

Drive further home, chit chat with Adam, then talk to Judy a bit - my air bag light starts blinking and I tell Judy I'm afraid it's going to deploy.

Then my speedometer stops working and then I go to give the car gas and nothing. Drift over to the turn lane and it completely dies - as well as my cell phone battery dies. So I'm stuck in the middle of the room trying to figure out where the closest pay phone is.

Police officer sees me stranded turns around with blue lights on and kindly offers to push my car through the turn in the intersection and into the liquor store parking lot. I thank him with a handshake, and the gal working at the liquor store is amazed he helped me and lets me use their phone to call a tow to the Firestone, which is about 1000 yards away (on a very busy four lane road, so no drifting there).

Get to Firestone, the batter reads 120 CCA's, they replace the battery, still have to jumpstart it, but the new battery now reads 842 CCA's (it better, they're charging me over $100 to replace it) , but it dies as soon as they take off the cables. So, tomorrow morning they're going to test to see if it's a cable from the alternator to the battery or the alternator itself - another $300!

Yay me! :(

I left work at 4 pm, got home at 8 pm.

Yea another car trouble buddie I just put min in the shop tonight cause I was stuck in drive..

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That really is horrible luck, sounds like your car needs replacing! Hopefully when it is fixed it will be as good as used and you can start spending money on reptiles and not fixing cars:banana:

That's bad luck, sorry your day was so crappy!

Hope everything gets fixed and you get your car back soon. Car trouble can be a "beach" if you know what I mean.

I am glad you are ok. Wow I hope things turn around for you. Car troubles are the worst.

Thanks everyone!

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Originally Posted by Beardedragon

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That really is horrible luck, sounds like your car needs replacing! Hopefully when it is fixed it will be as good as used and you can start spending money on reptiles and not fixing cars:banana:

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Hecky no on replacing it! It's paid off, I'm driving this sucker into the ground! :P

awwwww ... i'm sorry that you had such a crummy night Rabs. :( ... if it helps, I had a lot of fun yappin wit ya. ;) :D :love:

-adam

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Today went so well until my drive home. As I'm leaving the parking lot, my battery and brake lights are on. I call Karl, tell him - but really don't know what to do (the parking brake was disengaged). Call my dad to ask him what's up and they turn off.

Drive further home, chit chat with Adam, then talk to Judy a bit - my air bag light starts blinking and I tell Judy I'm afraid it's going to deploy.

Then my speedometer stops working and then I go to give the car gas and nothing. Drift over to the turn lane and it completely dies - as well as my cell phone battery dies. So I'm stuck in the middle of the room trying to figure out where the closest pay phone is.

Police officer sees me stranded turns around with blue lights on and kindly offers to push my car through the turn in the intersection and into the liquor store parking lot. I thank him with a handshake, and the gal working at the liquor store is amazed he helped me and lets me use their phone to call a tow to the Firestone, which is about 1000 yards away (on a very busy four lane road, so no drifting there).

Get to Firestone, the batter reads 120 CCA's, they replace the battery, still have to jumpstart it, but the new battery now reads 842 CCA's (it better, they're charging me over $100 to replace it) , but it dies as soon as they take off the cables. So, tomorrow morning they're going to test to see if it's a cable from the alternator to the battery or the alternator itself - another $300!

Yay me! :(

I left work at 4 pm, got home at 8 pm.

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Ouch :(.Here is a wish that its something simple and cheap(replace cable) ;).I hope everything goes well from here on out for you Robin :gj:

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

Yea another car trouble buddie I just put min in the shop tonight cause I was stuck in drive..

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Thats no fun :O.Here is the same wish for you that its something cheap ;)

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

awwwww ... i'm sorry that you had such a crummy night Rabs. :( ... if it helps, I had a lot of fun yappin wit ya. ;) :D :love:

-adam

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Same here! You're an awesome and loyal friend! :love: