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Date: Wed, 10/03/2007 - 19:58

Submitted by lawn1016
on Wed, 10/03/2007 - 19:58

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So I end up running late for work. We have 2 parking lots...a front one & a back one-by the cafeteria. Figured "Let me park in the back, so I can get myself some milk before I go up to my desk". I get out of the car & I heard a "Hissssssssssssssssssss". GREAT. Sounds like the tire. Check driver side-nothing. Check passenger side, kinda sounds like its from the right front tire. Get on the ground & look under the car-nothing leaking. Maybe its the radiator...open the hood-its all quiet. Listen to the right front tire again...sounds like its that one. So I move the car so on break I can call AAA & they can come & put a donut on. Move the car, get out...the hissing stopped.

Go out on break, check the tire-still hard & full of air. Check the hood, all ok. Park the car in a few different spots, run it for a few while I made a phone call & then listened again. I finally heard it again...off in the distance it was the....

WATER SPRINKLER for the lawn!!!! Same exact sound. All of them were on this time, but when I got to work at first only a few were on.

Felt REALLY silly!!!


That's so true Lady!! Tires aren't that bad...but last summer would have been killer if I hadn't a warrenty on the car. In January of 07 my car wouldn't start. So I took it to the dealer & he said I needed a new radiator. Fine-under warrenty. I get the car back & as I'm driving away the friggen thing overheats!! SO I have to turn around & drive REAL slow back to the dealer. If I went too fast the engine would over heat. Turns out they didn't fill the new radiator properly & there was an air pocket in it that made it overheat. Great! Fix that. Get the car back fine for about a month. Then when I was driving the heat would be fine. Stop at a light...heat turns to ice cold air. Take it to another dealer (one my parents mechanic recommended). He said they just need to drain it as there is an air bubble in the system but a dealer needs to do it (apparently Nissan has a weird raditor drain system). So I take it to them and they fix it. THEN...notice I'm loosing coolant. By now its spring. Dealer can't figure out what is wrong-so he keeps refilling it. Now its summer. Dealer said since I had been in there 3x for the same issue he wants the car to take apart & look to see where the coolant is going. Fine-I get a loaner. Turns out, there's a crack in the cylinder which is causing the antifreeze to go into that cylinder & messing up my heat. GREAT! 2 weeks later everything was fine. So from January to August of 2007, nothing but car trouble.

I think if I didn't have that warrenty it would have cost over $3000 to fix.

I love AAA Py! Even though it might be costly, its so worth it since hubby & I aren't good with tires & are affraid to jump our car!


lrhall41

Submitted by lawn1016 on Thu, 10/04/2007 - 01:07

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LeeLee, thanks for sharing that. It put a smile on my face and sounds like something I would do!! At least you had AAA and didn't have to spend any money. That would have really sucked!!!

I don't have AAA. I am thinking maybe I should sign up since I don't have a new car anymore. I had a practically new car but surrendered it in my bankruptcy and now hubby and I both drive older vans. Mine is a 94 and his is a 93 I think.


lrhall41

Submitted by Sassnlucy on Thu, 10/04/2007 - 08:54

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