Holy Mother (A Saturn Post)

[tinhuviel]

I am at Saturn 400 miles sooner than I should be. Why? Because yesterday evening when Llew and I got in the car to go up and put air in my tire that has a slow leak, the odometer display flashed a message "service vehicle." Now, this has never happened before, so I drug out my Saturn owner's manual and checked out what the matter could be. Apparently, when you get that message, there's a problem with the car that has been detected early on and needs to be addressed "before there's any further damage to the vehicle." ::shriek::

So here I am at Saturn after going to the bank and depositing my check along with all the change Aunt Tudi has been collecting. With her contribution, I was able to deposit over $300, but can really only afford to give $200 of that to the repair of my vehicle, so I'm hoping it doesn't come to too very much more than the $85 service fee that applies to a visit such as this.

Gadzooks. It never rains without pouring. Almost five years to the day of my purchasing my ION, I get the service vehicle message. I want to turn my palms to the sky, look upward and, imitating Ren Hoek/Peter Lorre, scream "What does it meeeeeaaaaaannnnnnn...." and then fall over in a heap.

While I'm here, I'm having them check out the tire that keeps going slack on me and plug whatever hole they find that keeps plaguing me with the threat of a fully flat tire. The service dude said I needed tires, but he bet I already knew that. Yeah, I already know that dude. That's like telling a fat person that they're fat. What's the point, eh? I'll get new tires when I can. Right now, I plan on skidding to work on bald eagles for as long as I have to. So leave me alone about the tires before I run amok.

Okay, he just came out and told me what the dealio is. It's an oil pressure switch. Parts and labour are right at $150, so I bade him proceed. Also, I had a nail in my tire, so they're gonna plug it for me. At least now it'll stop decreasing in size and pressure, leaving me with a dreadful feeling of unease. He said I'd be here for a while, so I guess I'll be terrorising everyone here on LJ.

Muahahahahahahah!

Comments

[flutterbychild.livejournal.com]

Well, Michelle Duggar is pregnant again...

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Who? Again? How many does this make? And how can she stand the little monsters?

[flutterbychild.livejournal.com]

This makes 18...

Her oldest is 20 and her youngest is 9 months old.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

jeeeeeeeeezus.

[stacye13.livejournal.com]

See, that goes with what I was about to suggest...you should do a post on recent signs of the alpaca lips! Green dogs being born, cyclones, crazy pregnant arkansans - the end is pretty seriously nigh!

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

I concur m'lady

[morriganwind.livejournal.com]

sorry for interrupting but can I just say we pass around the plate to fix this woman? ;)

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

I'd like to fix her with a frickin' baseball bat.

[morriganwind.livejournal.com]

LOL...please do so! Women like that make the infertile feel infinitely inferior for some strange reason I have yet to figure out.

[aunticrist.livejournal.com]

I just had to take my ion (bought a little over a year ago) to the dealership yesterday because the driver side window closing mechanism thingamagig broke and made it so the window A- didn't close, and B-the door wouldn't open. :/ They were able to fix it under warranty, but they also let it slip that this is apparently a -known issue- to the Saturn folk. Wasn't happy about that one.


Problem is, as I picked up flameprincess from work, I learned that in the process of fixing my door/window, they somehow managed to break my door locking/unlocking switch on the driver side. Guess who needs to go back tomorrow.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

D'oh! Major suckage. At least your time at a Saturn Service Center is pleasant, so there is that.

[angstzeit.livejournal.com]

In my experience 9 times out of ten when the service/engine light comes on the problem is a sensor. My cynical side thinks they make the sensors so they break often enough to keep a steady stream of cash coming to the repair shops.

What is absolutely, completely and utterly stupid is that in this day and age all they'll give you is "service vehicle." it would take so little to give you more useful information. But if they did that you wouldn't have to pay for some mechanic to get the car to read out what's wrong at $150 and hour.

Wait. There must be car hacks out there. Off to Google!

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

If you find anything, lemme know!

[booraven22.livejournal.com]

We just had to have one of our cylinders replaced in Gretchen (our Jetta wagon). Service light went on when hubby was driving me to work and the car started making all sorts of "OMG THE ENGINE IS HEMORRHAGING AND WE'RE GONNA DIIEEEE!" noises. So yeah, full metal jacket panic time.

Luckily our warranty covered it and we were only out $150!!

ALSO-- DID YOU SEE LOST LAST NIGHT? OMG???

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Jeebus, what is going on with all of us? Are we cursed? Jeeeebusssss!!!

Yes, I saw LOST. Uh... JEEEBUSSSSSSSssssss!!!

[morriganwind.livejournal.com]

Eek...you're right...why are we all having vehicle issues?

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Cursed. We are cursed.

Battlestar Galactica

[polypolyglot.livejournal.com]

Where "service vehicle" means something totally different :D

Re: Battlestar Galactica

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Ain't that the ever-lovin' truth?!

Well, I hope the timing helped a little.

[ross.livejournal.com]

Did you get the sent item (PAypal)?

Re: Well, I hope the timing helped a little.

[tinhuviel.livejournal.com]

Would you care to do a tad more, if you're able? The art thing was a bit of a bust...

http://tinhuviel.livejournal.com/1765839.html