My car is cursed. It needs an exorcist.
My brother offered to try and fix the overheating problem for me. I went and got the part today, and the girls and I started out on the 45 minute drive to my Mom's. (My brother and his family live next door to her)
I knew that the car would probably overheat again, but I was hoping that I could push it as far as possible and maybe make it without getting it towed.
Wrong.
After waiting for an hour and twenty minutes for the tow truck to arrive, we bundled into the cab of the truck and the girls watched my car get lifted up onto the truck.
We turned it into an adventure. They got to jump around the car while we waited, and they got to ride way up high in a big, loud truck.
My brother offered to try and fix the overheating problem for me. I went and got the part today, and the girls and I started out on the 45 minute drive to my Mom's. (My brother and his family live next door to her)
I knew that the car would probably overheat again, but I was hoping that I could push it as far as possible and maybe make it without getting it towed.
Wrong.
After waiting for an hour and twenty minutes for the tow truck to arrive, we bundled into the cab of the truck and the girls watched my car get lifted up onto the truck.
We turned it into an adventure. They got to jump around the car while we waited, and they got to ride way up high in a big, loud truck.
The driver deposited us and the car in Mom's driveway.
The tailpipe scraped a little as the car rolled off the back of the truck. Easy, buddy!!!
My brother came over and gave it his best, but there are multiple error messages coming from the computer and he just can't do it alone. So my Mom's mechanic is going to give it a try.
Oh, how did we get home, you ask?
Geoff had to drive all the way from home to Mom's to get us.
Sigh.
We are wondering how much money to throw at this car. It looks pretty, but there are a bunch of electrical problems, the brakes are going bad, it needs new tires, and then there's the whole coolant system thing. But if we don't fix it, we are stuck in the situation that we are dealing with now: One car, and many people (and birds) with a million places to go. We would like a new car now, but it's not smart to do so at this moment.
Damn.
