An large car repair bills.

The following is an example of "When it rains it pours."

About two weeks ago, my rear wheels started making metal-on-metal grinding noises - like my brakes were locking up when they weren't supposed to be. But it only happened at temperatures 20ºF or colder. So when I took it to the garage, they couldn't find anything wrong with it both times because it was warmer, and the problem was non-existent. My ABS light even came on, but they just reset it and wrote it off as a faulty sensor.

So when I went to Boston on the 14th to pick up my girlfriend, all was well until the next morning when at the hotel (we stayed a night in Peabody) we tried to back out of the parking spot and my tire was locked up so bad that I had to spin my front tires (FWD) just to move the car. A few minutes down the road, and all is better after it warms up, as usual. So I called the garage and scheduled another appointment. At least my parents have a third vehicle (an old minivan) that I could use in the meantime. I get a call the day my car was looked at, and they inform me that I (my girlfriend) had ridden the car on a flat tire and destroyed it, so I had to get another. She thought it felt funny because of the problem I had. Not really a big deal, though, because I needed two new ones anyway. Then they tell me the source of my problem is a seized bearing in my hub, which will have to be replaced. Cheapest one they find is ~ $350. I called around and got one for $210. So I bought the hub over the phone, and picked it up the next day, and when I was driving to the garage, my girlfriend told me to look at the receipt. I did, and apparently they only charged me $21 instead of $210! Huzzah!

So the next day my car is all done and repaired (I love my garage, my car was in the shop for two days and they only charged me for one hour of labor) and I bring it back home. I missed my Volvo. That night we get a snow storm and the next day we went to go to Portland, and after I get my car brushed off, I see that my entire rear window has been destroyed from a rock kicked up by the plow. WHAT THE FUCK!?!?! No, not just a crack that can be repaired with a little resin, but totally destroyed!



AHHH! What kind of shitty ass luck do I have? Back to the minivan. It gets fixed today, and that's only another $500. The garage was 300 and the hub was supposed to be 210, but thankfully it's only 21.

So out of the two weeks that my girlfriend is here, I have my S60 for a grand total of four days.