This car of mine
Ahhhh the internet. Its so good to be back. If you missed the first parts of the Gwen story, they can be found here and here .
I didn’t get the chance to tell yall the great news that happen last week, Gwen came home! Even picking her up was a bit of a hassle, being I had to sit there for 45 minutes while they “finished something up”. Rather frustrating for sure. Being that I was house sitting I didn’t really have any need to go on the highway so I didn’t drive her much past 50 mph this past week. This weekend I drove along the 40 quite a bit and in a phone call conversation with my mom I discovered my steering wheel was shaking! My alignment was off! I thought I had felt my wheel tighten when I turned but I didn’t know if that was me just being used to driving the rental for so long (this happened little over a month and half ago). I was super paranoid the first day I got her back, just felt weird to drive my own car.
I gave Rick a call this morning and told him I have to work this evening but could bring it in. He said Id have to leave the car with him if I did that since there are a lot of cars at his shop at the moment. I told him I shouldn’t have to wait in line again being this is something they should of fixed when it was there last week (I’m not playing around anymore!). He said there was already a car up in the machine, and he was down a person. If I could wait till Wednesday he could get it down in an hour. I told him I couldn’t bring it in till noon. He said he still could get it down while I waited. And so the drama of Gwen continues. I surely hope this is going to be the last visit to the body shop she has in a very long time! She needs NC plates but she cant get those if she keeps having to have long visits at the body shop. If I didn’t like dealing with car stuff before, I really don’t like it now.


gwen is starting to remind me of the Stephen King novel about the bad car…
Alisa: Have the tires checked for uneven wear as well. If you’re getting a vibration, not only is the alignment likely out, but you could have a wear issue that’s going to cause problems. [I speak from experience.]
i hope gwen gets fixed too. i wasn’t even able to see her when i was up in NC.