Car woes

I sometimes post my more whiny and bitch posts over at ADHDaddy. But it has not seen a lot of action in the past few months. At least not until I took my nearly new car in for service the other day. And then it got worse when I went to pick it up. FYI, I went back and edited those posts. The originals might reappear later, after all of this meddis settled.

Todays adventure with my car just takes the cake. I was telling RacecarMan about my car troubles. And I went to show him the repair that I still wasn't very happy with. Then I noticed fluid on the top of the engine and a the pad that hangs under the hood to deaden sound and dissipate heat is completely trashed. Evidently, while repairing my car they let antifreeze leak all over the engine compartment and manifold.

It turns out that if you demand a service manager show up at your house on a Saturday morning, AND the dealership knows that they have already dropped the ball on this deal, you can actually get a house call from a service manager.

50 minutes after I demanded to see the service manager IN MY DRIVEWAY, he pulled up in a loaner Saturn Outlook. (Yep, the same one, just in case you saw the original ADHDaddy posts.)

So now my car is back at the shop, getting a better repair, a complete detail, including the engine bay and a new hood sound deadener/heat pad. Should be back in four or five days and I bet it looks like a million bucks when I see it again. Oh for the love of God, please let them do it right this time...