7/11/03

Righty-O. So we picked up our car right? On the way out of the lot the sterio and clock just like shut off. Hubby is already like gone and down the street and I’m sitting there in the car going “What the fuck do I do now?” My first thought was fuck, the fucking battery cable is loose or some shit. But then I thought, “No, I’m a moron for even thinking that, that can’t be right”. So I took off, got home and bitched to hubby. We had to take hubby’s dads car back to him so I ended up driving the car the half hour to hubby’s dads house. Not 5 minutes into the drive I hit a bump and boom, radio goes off but not the clock this time. I turn a relatively sharp corner going pretty fast there it goes again, sterio off, then back on. AH-HAH, loose wire, no worries.

So we drop the car off and go out to dinner. When we get home hubby pops the hood and the whole fucking fuse box is loose. The screws aren’t even hand-tight, they’re just like hanging in there by imagination. Fucking bastards. We could have easily lost those screws on the hour jaunt to stafford and dinner and back. Hubby tightened that down, that could have been the problem with the sterio and clock, dunno. Some of the fuses in there and fusible links seemed a little loose. If that didn’t fix it we’ll have to pop the sterio out and see if something back there is loose.

I’m so fucking annoyed though. THIS is exactly why I hate taking my car to the shop. I really prefer to do the work my damn self, which hubby and I could do most of the time on the Datsun. This car though, all the electrical shit is too confusing. I always had problems when I got my Datsun back when I lived in Tulsa, this and that would have to be re-tightened. Once I got my brakes worked on and the fucking things hadn’t been bled properly. I nearly rearended several people on the way home. My dad nearly flipped out and took it back the next day. These fucking shops, and apparently dealers too don’t pay enough attention to what they’re doing. It’s not their car. The labor at that fucking place is 75 dollars an hour and these losers can’t even tighten our fucking fuse box down all the way? The guys at the normal shop we would go to charge 40 dollars an hour and I’ve never had not one problem with them.

This warranty shit is over-rated, yeah, it’s free but at what cost? Possibly losing parts? Shit not functioning properly when the car is returned? Not being able to do whatever I want to the car I’m fucking paying for without getting griped at for it. Fuck this shit.

I’m not as pissed off as I sound really, just annoyed. 🙂

Have a great weekend everyone!!