RE: OT. a problem with my car...
Oh gotta love cars sometimes. When I went down to Houston for Thanksgiving, we decided to buy an SUV given the fact that my car at the time did not have AWD. We knew that it would be cheaper to buy down there since not a lot of people use AWDs and it would be free of rust. We found one on Wednesday before Thanksgiving, test drove it, looked good, smelled good, drove good. Didnt notice anything wrong with it. Signed paperwork and all. Was supposed to have my buddy thats a mechanic down there take a look at it before we started to drive back up to Michigan. Didnt get a chance. Well, we loaded up the SUV, even bought a snowblower down there (let me know if you want to know this part of the story as well). Well once we decided to stop for the night, we started noticing some things that we didnt notice before. It would idle roughly when stopped at a stoplight, and it wasnt getting the full mpg that was advertised. We also started noticing that the lights inside the SUV would flicker when we would be stopped and had the car running and the door opened. We also noticed that the headlights would also blinker as well. Then my bluetooth wasnt working either. But wait, it gets better. A couple of days ago, after leaving work, I decided to turn the defrost on since it was in the low 30s here, drove about a block and started smelling gun powder/fireworks and the inside of my car started to get some smoke. In the middle of the intersection I decided to turn off the SUV, then I heard a crack, and saw a little bit of smoke come out of my windshield, right in front of me. Decided to start the car again and drive it another block to a parking lot so I can check out the engine. Popped the hood while the car was still running and did not notice anything. Closed the hood and I noticed a small crack on my windshield, like a rock had just hit it, and there was some melted plastic right under the windshield. Decided to drive it home like that, so then I noticed some cracks that started to form on my windshield coming out of the small crack. So needless to say that I have three huge cracks on my windshield, and have decided to take it in to the dealership to get everything checked out. My SUV is known for having a bad alternator, electrical problems and a bad idler pulley. So I am probably looking at a few hundred bucks, if not about $1000 to get everything fixed and repaired. Oh and one of my headlights went out in all of this too. With cars, you just have to make sure you take it to someone you trust and get it looked at. When I told my buddy about the rough idle problem, he knew exactly what it was after I told him the make and model of my SUV.
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