SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS
Dec. 14th, 2006 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneThe continuing saga of Matrix vs Rock.
It was initially inspected by the Toyota dealership to be about a $1600 repair. Insurance adjuster came out and spec'd replacing another part, kicking up the repair to $3k. Part came in, we were supposed to pick it up today.
Just got a call from the dealership. The transmission is toast.
I thought I saw a lot of purple when it was draining its life fluids after I got off the road, but some oils look purple.
So it will add at least another week to the repair. I don't expect to see my car until after Christmas.
Still, we're only out our $250 insurance deductible. We're just also out an awful lot of convenience.
EDIT: went by the dealership to get some stuff out of the car that we'll need for the trip (power inverter, etc.). Found out the tranny will run $3200. So that'll take the total repair up over $6k.
It was initially inspected by the Toyota dealership to be about a $1600 repair. Insurance adjuster came out and spec'd replacing another part, kicking up the repair to $3k. Part came in, we were supposed to pick it up today.
Just got a call from the dealership. The transmission is toast.
I thought I saw a lot of purple when it was draining its life fluids after I got off the road, but some oils look purple.
So it will add at least another week to the repair. I don't expect to see my car until after Christmas.
SUCKS!
Still, we're only out our $250 insurance deductible. We're just also out an awful lot of convenience.
EDIT: went by the dealership to get some stuff out of the car that we'll need for the trip (power inverter, etc.). Found out the tranny will run $3200. So that'll take the total repair up over $6k.
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Date: 2006-12-14 11:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-14 11:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-15 12:34 am (UTC)boggles at your odd obsession with that town
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Date: 2006-12-15 01:01 am (UTC)It isn't Phoenix per se, it's just that so many of my friends and relatives are there. Not to mention book stores, movie theatres, good restaurants, good places to shop, camera stores.... ;-)
We go to Las Cruces and El Paso regularly for the same thing. They don't have the friends or camera stores, otherwise they're good.
Alamogordo is the pits. One or two restaurants that I would call good, a five-plex movie theatre that misses an awful lot of films, and no really good book stores (a'la Bookman's).
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Date: 2006-12-15 01:39 am (UTC)Hopefully it can get done fairly soon and will be working OK once you get it back.