More exciting car repairs
September 29th 2008 -
So, the car problem happened again – losing acceleration, clearly missing a cylinder. I got the car most of the way to work, and then walked the rest of the way, and called my mechanic. He was very apologetic, but asked as a favour if I could check whether the plugs had come loose again. I had a look, thought I’d found the plugs, and they weren’t loose, so reported back. He sighed, and said he’d be over at about lunchtime.
By 11:00am I had to feed the meter, and I decided to have another look for the loose plugs. And found them. Two of the plugs were, in fact, out, so the car had been running on two cylinders for a short distance, ho ho. I pushed them back in, and it ran fine again, hee hee. Drove to the Canon car park and called my mechanic to tell him not to come, heh heh. And he had just arrived, a bit early. Poop.
I’ve often felt like a bit of an idiot around my mechanic. This was no exception. “Oh… yeah, I found ‘em.” He loves to tell me stories of other clueless customers, so I’m sure he just got another story. I really wish he’d ask me a computer question, or something…
Owen Says:
September 29th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Ho ho is right. So, you found both plugs the first time huh?
I blew the head gasket on my ’77 Lancer a few times. Ah – them were the days.
admin Says:
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:59 pm
The mechanic was quite apologetic too – he’d told me the plugs were red. In fact, they were black, which is why I didn’t find them the first time.