Bad news day December 6, 2006
So, today could have been better than it turned out. Yesterday evening I was having issues with the car (it wouldn’t reverse anymore) so I got home and talked to Gary. He suggested that the transmission fluid might be low, so we proceeded to go and check that out. He was right that the transmission fluid was a little bit low, so we added some more but that didn’t solve the problem. As he didn’t have a lot of transmission fluid Keltie and I went down early this morning to Canadian Tire to get some more, but we added a little bit more and that still didn’t help things, so I drove the car over to Kean auto and left it with Phil to take a look at. Anyway, I ended up calling Kean auto late this afternoon and got some not-so-great news: that the transmission on the car had died, with the total repair bill likely being $2000 with a used transmission or closer to $3000 with a new transmission.
So, I now have to decide what to do – whether to go ahead and fix the car, or if it’s going to make more sense to sell/part it out and just get something else. All in all not a great day, but I’ll admit that it could have been a lot worse, so I’m thankful that it’s the only thing that happened to me today.
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