...is that they never work! Even brand new cars need continuous love and upkeep like oil changes, tire rotations or new tires, windshield wiper fluid, etc. Well, as we all know the older a car gets, the more problems there are. We have an 11 year old used car which is pretty much a disaster waiting to happen and considered REALLY old (but probably not ancient..luckily) in the car world. We are the 3rd owners so we have no idea what could have happened before or if the previous owners even took care of it.
Well the point of it all is the story of our lives this last week! Here's what happened:
We decided to take Kyla to go see a movie at the theater as our last big family thing before Hyrum started school again. We saw Bolt on Saturday and it was so good! Kyla loved it! She sat through the whole thing and still talks about it and prays about it too!
Well after the movie was over we went out to the car to go home...our best luck happened and it wouldn't start. Kyla and I went back inside while Hyrum tried to fix or at least attempted to see what could have been wrong (we both know absolutely NOTHING about cars). Well after an hour, it still wouldn't start. Hyrum's parents came to get us and take us home and they were so nice to let us use their van for a day and 1/2 since they have 2. We left the car over night and decided to go see if it would start again later the next day. Well...it did! But we drove it directly to the shop and had someone get to fixing it the next day. They fixed it on Monday morning for cheap...or so we thought. We were glad it didn't cost us an arm and a leg. To make a longer story shorter, Hyrum had to make a trip to Idaho Falls on Tuesday before school started. He pulled up to the place he was going, did what he needed and went back to the car to come back home but instead of coming home he was stuck...the car didn't start again! He considered staying there for the night with one of his uncles but after about 3 hours of trying to get the car to work, it started up and he came home.
Weirdly enough, it started again today 3 times and has been fine. The sad thing is, is that we've probably figured out the problem when the mechanics, who did a thorough inspection (or so they say) couldn't even fix the original problem. Anyway, it couldn't start this evening again but after some wiggling of wires and discovering that there are 3 wires that are not even fused together anymore, we hope we've solved the problem and can get it fixed soon. We took the car back over to the mechanics place tonight in hopes that tomorrow it will REALLY be fixed! Phew...sorry for the long story but I wanted to document the event. Wish us luck with our car!!
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I'm sorry! But guess what?? As of this morning Larry's car won't start either! (He's tried several times today) He hasn't had to drive it since the end of last semester so it's been sitting in the snow just slowing dying I guess. So yeah... we were just out trying to see if we could fix it, but that didn't happen. So... fun times!
That is rough... car problems are so exhausting. Hopefully you're right about the problem this time and you can get it fixed for good. And you are so right that you always have stuff you have to pay for when it comes to your cars; it is never ending.
And I just want you to know that I have a 1996 car and, GET THIS, a 1987... yeah, it's like 2 years younger than me!! So, don't worry, I don't think your car is ancient in my book, haha :)
WOW!! I am soo sorry to hear that.. That is bad news! Well I hope that you'll be able to get the car fixed 'RIGHT' this time and hopefully it was just a few loose wires.. that shouldn't be too much to fix! GOOD LUCK!!!
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