#car-repairs — Public Fediverse posts

So, a rundown on my day...

Dropped the car at the garage.

On pins & needles most of the morning, anxious over what may be required.

Find out it's not that bad, feel fairly silly.

Get the call it's ready.

I spent $150 on Lyft, going to and from the garage. That bites. It's nowhere near home but it's the best garage in town for VWs.

The car needed new brakes and two new tires. The heat has never worked and it turns out the heater core is gummed up with sludge from the coolant tank, which apparently is something that happens with some VWs these days. Meaning it will require flushing from time to time. The bill was fairly reasonable all considered, and I plan to go back for an oil change. They were very pleasant and attentive.

Go home; go to take a "quick nap" and I am HARD ASLEEP like it takes me forever to rouse out of it. I think that was mainly a stress-crash.

Now I'm wobbly, still a bit sleepy, and kinda hungry but no energy to cook. UGH.

#MyDay #CarRepairs

I am trying to get the cover off my steering column in the D-Max.

Without breaking anything.

I don't seem to be having much luck and I'm doing damage that I was hoping to avoid.

I really do prefer older cars.

#CarRepairs #CarMastodon #WhatsWrongNow

#Journal, Day 1862
Thursday, 24 April 2025
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#gotchaday #birdsofinstagram #wilddoves #drama #carrepairs #sellingfootphotos

I don't know whether to laugh or cry or scream or all three simultaneously.

#Prius absolutely just annihilated me with trouble codes. I'll count my blessings that I was already parking in the barn when the gears locked up and I couldn't move anymore. I'm stranded here at the farm, but at least I'm safe. :drgn_0_0:

#CarRepairs #DTC #DiagnosticTroubleCode #2010Prius

Nothing to Say

I’m down to the final minutes of my lunch break on this fine Friday afternoon. I am pretty exhausted from a lack of sleep over the past… month(s) but I’m hanging in there. I had some Purdue Popcorn chicken and some peanuts and some sugar free Hershey bites for lunch. I really want a drink of water but I still have to wait the better part of an hour before I am clear to drink anything. That’s a gastric bypass patient thing. If you know, you know.

Fed Ex delivered a package today. I am not home to get it, but it contains a new guitar pedal. If I read the amazon shipping notes correctly, it’s a compressor pedal. The first I’ve ever purchased. I have this weird idea of using cleaner guitar sounds for this year’s RPM Challenge in February and a compressor will be a part of that. I bought an MXR Dyna Comp because it’s super simple and it will let me squash my clean signal down to a delightfully mushy… mush. There are two more pedals coming over the weekend. One is a Flanger, the other is an Amp Sim. I don’t have room on my pedal board for any of these kiddos and I don’t have open slots on my power brick… so I am going to need to get creative, I think. It should be fun. I don’t think I bought a single guitar pedal during all of 2024. I know I bought a couple of microphones for band practices that haven’t actually happened yet, but no pedals.

There are a lot of tentative plans for the weekend. We may be messing with our living room and we may be going to some stores for research purposes. I hope to spend some time wandering around town taking pictures with my new/possibly antique (though probably not) camera. I got a gift card for the sugar free bakery in Salem, NH for xmas. I haven’t bought anything from them in about a month, but now I am definitely going back and getting some cookies. Good stuff.

What else… I thought there was something else… One of our cars is going to get a break job. That wasn’t the thing that I am forgetting though… am I going to go shopping for a new iPhone? That’s definitely on the to-do list before we go to Florida at the end of the month, but is it this weekend? I don’t know.

I have to start practicing the guitar. The band is hoping to reconvene (hopefully for real this time) at some point after this weekend. I need to get ready for that. Which guitar should I bring to the first practice? Probably the Les Paul Standard that my wife got me for my 50th birthday in 2021. I really dig that guitar.

I know I had something else I wanted to write about but it has slipped my brain entirely. Don’t get old, kids. This is what happens to you when you get old. Stay young for as long as you can. Unless you’re already old like me in which case… sorry, folks. We had a good run, I’m sure.

#absentMinded #age #breakJob #breaks #Car #carMaintenance #carRepairs #food #Guitar #GuitarGear #GuitarPedals #homeDecore #homeDesign #homeImprovement #LivingRoom #livingRoomFurniture #lunch #Memory #Music #old #oldAge #plans #redesign #sometimers #toDoList #weekendPlans

Orion (our 2006 CR-V) is in the shop.

Looking at a 4k to 5k price tag. Why? Because there's at least one oil leak, if not more and that means seals need replacing.

Guy started to say it might be more feasible to replace the car, & I was like, nope, we are not in a position for a new vehicle right now.

So we repair and get another 5-10 years out of him. Especially since this is the only serious issue with him. (Knock on wood.)

#carrepairs

Today was so stressful I now require a beer AND a peanut butter cup! 😜

#MusicProduction #ReplyGuy #CarRepairs #BeerOClock #PeanutButterCup #SelfSoothing

So here's my theory about our cars: I think it's sibling rivalry. It started because my car got a new battery last year. This year, as soon as the cold hit, Robin's car decided *it* wanted a new battery. Then my fuel pump went - and a few days later, Robin's car demanded a new fuel pump too. Robin's car is the little sibling, always wanting what the big sibling gets. I wonder if human sibling rivalry is quite so expensive, though. #CarRepairs

Y Combinator, 500 Startups, Plug and Play invest in Odiggo’s $2.2M seed round - Servicing one’s car personally is a time-consuming, expensive and painstaking proc... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/nKayDkWy0so/ #recentfunding #500startups #plugandplay #ycombinator #automotive #carrepairs #startups #africa #odiggo #dubai #egypt #tc