Struck Oil…

Thursday, April 21st, 2005 | Uncategorized

So today I went to Dean’s Auto to have the oil pan gasket replaced on my car… I had originally tried to do it myself, but that was a flop. I took it to Dean’s because I trust them more than I do Andy’s these days. At any rate they got the job done in exactly the time they said they would, and I left and drove to Janesville.

See I was going to try to talk to this guy to see if he wanted to be an investor for my computer company. However I got there 20 mins late, and wasted a trip. So I decided to go to Fort since it was fairly close, nobody was home and I needed to kill time until my friend Mark called me back, so I decided to go to my fathers……………….

He was in some strange emotional mood, and had just gotten a big shipment of knives which he collects these days. I wasn’t interested at all, but he was so content to show me that I figured that would save me having to converse about some other issues. Well when I left there I noticed some spots under my car. I ducked down to see there was oil dripping off the entire underside of my car! Ok, so I was not happy… it was leaking 10 times worse than when I brought it in. So I have to go back to the Mad City then.

As I just start my friend calls me and I have to tell him that now I must go back to Madison and bitch out my mechanic. Well I call em and he even offers to tow it to save me from driving it raw but it wasn’t that bad so I got it back to the city and they say that 2 parts are cracked, they replaced the one that was shooting oil and they tell me the other one is my entire oil pan. Grr…

Well they did the honorable thing and said they would fix everything for no labor charges, I would however have to pay the $128 for a new oil pan. Hell it was probably cracked before they worked on it anyways, and this will take them probably 3 - 4 hours to put an entirely new oil pan on so I suppose that will save me money in the long run.

Oil pan is scheduled for tomorrow, they made sure there was no spraying oil and said I was good to go. I called a friend and she was moving so I offered to help, spent the rest of the night helping her move, then managed to get a ride to mechanics to drop off car and back home to DeForest….. Only to discover that I had not left my keys in their drop box so I had to get my roommate to drive me down there just to drop those off.

What a long day.

               

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