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ThaPig

Something good.

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I have made a resolution of not posting whining depressing journals here the time, but focusing on the positive. So instead of posting crappy stuff that happens to me, I have waited until I fixed the problem to post the good news.

Last week my car broke down (again) I drove to work as usual and when I finished and was going home the car started but didn't move. When I tried to back up it made a grinding noise. Imagine my fear, since it looked like the worst nightmare: busted transmission!

This is the car my brother gave me when the previous one broke. And I still owe money to some of my furry friends who helped me last time (working on it, guys, I promise)

I managed to get it towed home and started looking for solutions. My wife's uncle drove me to work all this week and I returned home in Uber.

Finally yesterday I got it fixed. It was not the transmission, but only a broken CV axle, so it was a relatively cheap fix.

So I'm mobile again and I don't have to lose my job.
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Added: 6 years, 4 months ago
 
SenGrisane
6 years, 4 months ago
Wow. You really are unlucky with your cars. I am glad you could sort this out though.

Reminds me of the time I had a series of flat tires with my bike (4 flat tires in 2 weeks). Always went to the shop I bought it at to get a new bicycle tube.
After the 4th time I went to a professional bike shop and he found that shavings from when they made the metal rim, were still inside rim (underneath a sticker) and had poked holes in the tube from inside.
ThaPig
6 years, 4 months ago
Maybe the repair people were putting those there on purpose to sell more tubes?

I used to ride a bicycle to work, but I was younger and stronger back then. I remember the trip took longer time than the actual time I was working. Today I probably could not do it. It's 15 miles and not only the distance, but I would have to ride through some dangerous areas late at night. The other problem would be it rains a lot in this town.
SenGrisane
6 years, 4 months ago
I doubt that. It was a super cheap bike and not so competent repair people.
microbuss
6 years, 4 months ago
well I doing something right
Cause I never had a car break on me

also a CV breaking is why you hear cars grind going around corners
ThaPig
6 years, 4 months ago
Both the mechanic and my brother told me they had never seen a CV joint break this way... the tip of the shaft had broken off inside the hole. It looked like it had been cleanly sawed off.  We needed to use a magnet to putt the piece out so we could put the new axle in.
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