Sweet Catastrophe

For Ryan, I mean. I forgot to update that he did find one when they went looking while I was gone!

Already having ups and downs though. They kept it to fix the air conditioner and speedometer, along with other random maintenance things to take it back to the condition it was in when they got it.

Before he even left town the check engine light was back on. He talked to someone and figured that out. It’s a sensor issue and they had changed one, but apparently his has two so that needs to be fixed. In the meantime it’s screwing with his gas mileage (don’t ask me to explain how…that part wasn’t in English for me ) Not long after leaving Valdosta his battery light came on. He called me to look quickly online and find out what that means–assuming it meant low battery was just too obvious–good thing I looked too. It actually means that the alternator isn’t charging the battery, so you’ve got anywhere from half an hour to a day, just depending on how much charge the battery had. It also had a list of things to check yourself if you can’t immediately get to a mechanic so I listed those for him as well. It was 3am before he could look for himself but he called to fill me in and there was NO BELT on the alternator. The belts were on the list of things they changed out, so they either left it too loose or tightened it too much, either way, having a belt snap off like that on the interstate could have potentially wrecked him. He’s lucky that the belt obviously worked its way out–normally they snap and take out surrounding belts with them. I haven’t talked to him yet, but the plan was to call and bitch out the dealership. You just can’t be careless with stuff like that and they’re absolutely going to have to reimburse him for towing and whatever has to be done to get it back going.

Otherwise it’s been smooth sailing. He’s already replaced the cd player since the one that was in it sounded horrible with his Zune. He’s not gonna do much else to it though. It’s nice enough as it =) Of course, it means the new memory for my computer is gonna have to wait a little longer, but I can accept that if it means he has a reliable ride that I don’t have to worry about!