This has been a busy month for car repairs. Last Friday I had to put a new battery in my truck. I took the day off today to get the oil changed in both vehicles and to get them both inspected. As it turns out the van didn't need an inspection. I can just pay the registration and I am good for another year. The truck is a different story.
The truck failed the safety inspection. There is a hole in the exhaust pipe where the pipe is welded to the catalytic converter. The inspector couldn't get the rear brake drum off because of a groove in the drum and he cannot remove it for liability reasons. And to top it all off I need to have the bearings repacked on the front end. Nice!!!
So, I took the old bolt bucket to Master Muffler to have them look at the weld job they did when I had a piece of the tail pipe replaced. They said it was a bad weld and fixed it while I waited. I got to talking to the owner of the shop and realized that they can fix all of the other problems as well. So I called up my wife and had her come and pick me up. A repair man will inspect the rear brakes and repack the bearings for me. If it needs new brakes or anything else they will call.
I can only imagine what the repair costs will be. Fortunately the weld job was under warranty (at least something was working for me).
The highlight of the day was I got to spend part of the day with my daughter, Carolyn, as she went with me to get the oil changed on the truck. Sammy went with me to the muffler shop and had a great time. I bought him a Country Time Lemonade and that made his day.
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Thanks for writing this.
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