If it's not one thing, it's another
May. 22nd, 2007 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nico1908The compressor in my 1999 Beetle gave out last year. At just about 72,000 miles, it was a little early to bite the dust, but this car has had so much wrong with it since I bought it used in 2002 that another major problem didn't surprise me too much. Since I had just spent a couple hundred bucks on the car, I didn't have the money to get it fixed and decided I would have to could live without AC.
Then came the plan to go to lovely Kentucky in July to join my dear penpal badkatpatfor the opening night of OotP at the Imax in Louisville. There was no way I was going to drive all the way up there without AC, but hubby said I could drive his new Kia Spectra, so I would be okay - or so I thought until I drove that car for an hour the other day. I got out of the thing with the worst backpain I've had in a long time. There was no way I was going to drive all the way up there in those uncomfortable seats! Well, fortunately, I'd made more money than expected at the ITB Berlin, so I caved and had the compressor replaced.
$960 later, my car has been successfully turned into an icebox, which I know I'll greatly appreciate once the humidity climbs to 80% and higher - but my CD player has died. :( There is no way I'm going to drive for 10 hours without music, so I called a couple of car stereo places around here as well as our local VW dealer. Same info everywhere: new radio costs between $250-300. The guy at the audio shop here in town even told me there is no guarantee a new radio will work with the CD changer and I'd need to get a new one of those, too - for just a couple hundred bucks more. Right!!!
Thank goodness there's eBay! With a little luck, I can get a used original AM/FM/cassette/CD unit for around $100. Cross fingers for me!!!!
badkatpatfor the opening night of OotP at the Imax in Louisville. There was no way I was going to drive all the way up there without AC, but hubby said I could drive his new Kia Spectra, so I would be okay - or so I thought until I drove that car for an hour the other day. I got out of the thing with the worst backpain I've had in a long time. There was no way I was going to drive all the way up there in those uncomfortable seats! Well, fortunately, I'd made more money than expected at the ITB Berlin, so I caved and had the compressor replaced.$960 later, my car has been successfully turned into an icebox, which I know I'll greatly appreciate once the humidity climbs to 80% and higher - but my CD player has died. :( There is no way I'm going to drive for 10 hours without music, so I called a couple of car stereo places around here as well as our local VW dealer. Same info everywhere: new radio costs between $250-300. The guy at the audio shop here in town even told me there is no guarantee a new radio will work with the CD changer and I'd need to get a new one of those, too - for just a couple hundred bucks more. Right!!!
Thank goodness there's eBay! With a little luck, I can get a used original AM/FM/cassette/CD unit for around $100. Cross fingers for me!!!!
