Logan is recovering after a very bad week for car repairs.  It all started on Wednesday afternoon when he tried to start his truck to come home after being in an interpreter workshop all day.  He had to call Amy to come over so he could jumpstart his truck.  Fortuneately, the workshop location was only three miles from home.  He got home checked the battery warranty, and then went to a rehearsal.  All was fine, the battery is less than two years old.  Thursday morning, he takes the car to the workshop since he still can not start the truck.  After lunch, he opens the windows to blow out all of the hot air that had built up over lunch.  But, when he tried to close the windows the driver's window decided that it wanted to stay in the door.  Wonderful!  Here comes a thunderstorm.  So, he returns to the workshop and drops off his friend that was riding with him, comes home to place the car in the garage before the storm hits, jumpstarts his truck, and returns to the workshop, all in fifteen minutes!  Thursday afternoon, after the worshop he takes his truck over to Auto Zone to have the battery tested.  Battery was fine. Hummm.  Starter or solenoid maybe.  So, he schedules the truck to go to the shop on Monday morning and the car on Tuesday morning.

The truck was determined that the battery terminal cables were too loose so they were replaced.  Why they stopped working after being on there for eighteen months is still a mystery.  The A/C needed more coolant and the truck needed brakes all around.  Ok...fine.  Then came the car on Tuesday.  The shop thought they could complete the work on Tuesday but, something happened with other car they were working on so they did not get to our car.  Wednesday, the shop calls and says the car is ready.  We go over to pick it up on the way to Wal-Mart because Tuesday night, Logan had a tire to get punchured on the way to a church meeting.  (He is just now working out all of the soreness from changing the tire.)  We get the car and both drive over to Wal-Mart, but once we arrive Amy is not able to get out of the car using the driver door.  She has to climb over to the passenger door and get out.  So, we decided that Amy would start our shopping in Wal-Mart and Logan would return the car to the shop, across the street.  Logan then walked back over to Wal-Mart to find Amy at the Tire and Lube Express desk being informed that the tire would have to be replaced and that the tire's tread had past the free replacement requirements for the road hazard.  A tire could be purchased at a pro-rated cost.  Logan agreed that $45 for a tire with road hazard was far cheaper than buying at full retail price of $70.  We continue our shopping while the crew replaced the tire on the truck and returned the spare under the truck.  About that time, the other shop called saying the car was ready.  The cable between the door latch and the inside handle had too much slack in it, but it was fixed now.

So, after spending about $550 we now have two working cars.  Oh yes, we forgot... Logan had a rock hit a parking/marker light lens this past week as well.  He has not fixed that yet, but he has done some research on that.  $25 on-line for the part or $60 at Auto Zone, guess what he will be doing?!