Since we name things of destructive forces with female names (Katrina and the like) I have decided to name my neo-hooptie Serena.
She officially became a hoopty when I velcro’d the center console lid. The dealership has replaced it twice and I’m not paying for something that will continue to break. my solution’s sturdier, but requires a bit more effort to get to what’s inside. 🙁
She has a leak in the front passenger side tire, and for a while I treated the effect and not the cause. Remember when gas-station Air used to be FREE? Around town it’s 75 cents on average. The Texaco on Aycock/Lee has it for like $1.25. The BP on Market Street (site of the former Krispy Kreme) had it listed for 50 cents, I was like OH BOY! 50 cents for air!!!! what a bargain, right? So i fill up the first tire and decide to hit off the other ones and I realize a few seconds into messing with tire #2 that 50 cents worth of Market Street BP Air is about 20 seconds worth and I was actually deflating my other tire. 🙁
So I go to the Elm St. Goodyear place on recommendation of a coworker, to have them de-hooptyize my ride a level or two. The break switch issue, they didn’t have that part but they did patch my tire and balanced the front end. I go by to pick it up with plans to drop it off again tomorrow. I go to pay for the work already performed and brotherman says “take it and pay for everything tomorrow”. in this day and age? cool.