all dressed up and…
i took my car in for service today… again!!!
now I like my little car, but I’m rather frustrated with all the maintenance issues I’m faced with. They’re not big things, but isn’t it always the little things that just kind of grate on you? I mean a rattle here, a replaced doohickie there, a loud crunching sound when this happens. Its all starting to wear on me. Today, its the exhaust system. 46,103 miles and the exhaust is rattling. I took it in for an oil change 2 weeks ago, and as soon as I started to describe the problem, the tech guy finished my words telling me exactly what it is, and that this is a regular problem with VW’s.
So I dropped off my little car and waited for Enterprise to pick me up. Arriving in the largest vehicle I’ve been in to date, my uber-friendly driver who I’ll call, oh lets say “Chris” wouldn’t stop talking about cars. My car, his car, new cars, cost of cars. And I thought I was bad.
When we arrived to the lot, I noticed 3 vehicles in the lot.
A truck
An SUV - the one we arrived in
A Lincoln LS
I took the Lincoln. They didn’t have the car class I wanted, but wouldn’t really give me a deal on the Lincoln other than dropping the price by $10.00. Oh Well, I won’t drive and SUV as big as a my ex’s house in Milwaukee (its a small house), and the truck wouldn’t work for the sales calls I had set for the day.
I paid the price, climbed into the luxury surroundings and was impressed for the first time in a VERY long time about an American Made automobile. It drove better than the Jaguar I rented in San Francisco last spring, and felt as solid as my Volvo of old.
I think it may be time to start saving for a new, larger, (maybe even 4-door) faster vehicle.
Oh yeah, and the appointment…. She just called to cancel.