Abort? Retry? Influence with hammer?
Mar. 19th, 2003 03:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gemfyreNot-Bob has been nothing but trouble lately.
Week and a half ago it was the alternator. The battery was flattening itself. Dad replaced alternator to the tune of about $300... ouch.
Monday I go to fire up the car after visiting Kings Park. Battery light comes on, motor does not. Ring RAC again. Wait. Guy comes around, checks the battery power or whatever he does. Touches something toward the base of the hood and it turns over. Tells me somethingorrather isn't firing properly and I need a tune up. I go on my way.
Today, Anglicare car park (found a baby mermaid pony, up for trade). Turn on car. It starts, but shudders terribly as I back it out of the parking lot before dying right in the middle of it. I push it back into a park and call RAC... Again.
Guy comes, I tell him of the battery problems so he investigates all that. Nothing. He suspects I have no fuel. According to my records (seeing as the fuel gauge is unreliable) I have about another 100k left in the tank. Anyway, I pay him $6 to stick some petrol in and try it. Nope, doesn't work. He tinkers a bit more under the dash, consults a manual... Eventually he proposes that it could be the fuel pump. He instructs me to start the car while he wallops the tank with a mallet. *vroom!* Okay that worked. Gives me a tow note - tells me after this treatment some cars don't get 5 meters down the road, some go for a fortnight - and I go on my way back home.
Dunno what I'm gonna do about getting to uni tonight for dancing, or tomorrow for Mars meeting.
Damn car. I wish things could be reliable!
Week and a half ago it was the alternator. The battery was flattening itself. Dad replaced alternator to the tune of about $300... ouch.
Monday I go to fire up the car after visiting Kings Park. Battery light comes on, motor does not. Ring RAC again. Wait. Guy comes around, checks the battery power or whatever he does. Touches something toward the base of the hood and it turns over. Tells me somethingorrather isn't firing properly and I need a tune up. I go on my way.
Today, Anglicare car park (found a baby mermaid pony, up for trade). Turn on car. It starts, but shudders terribly as I back it out of the parking lot before dying right in the middle of it. I push it back into a park and call RAC... Again.
Guy comes, I tell him of the battery problems so he investigates all that. Nothing. He suspects I have no fuel. According to my records (seeing as the fuel gauge is unreliable) I have about another 100k left in the tank. Anyway, I pay him $6 to stick some petrol in and try it. Nope, doesn't work. He tinkers a bit more under the dash, consults a manual... Eventually he proposes that it could be the fuel pump. He instructs me to start the car while he wallops the tank with a mallet. *vroom!* Okay that worked. Gives me a tow note - tells me after this treatment some cars don't get 5 meters down the road, some go for a fortnight - and I go on my way back home.
Dunno what I'm gonna do about getting to uni tonight for dancing, or tomorrow for Mars meeting.
Damn car. I wish things could be reliable!
