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Dropped my car off on Friday. Got the news today, and it was better than I'd feared.
1. The "clunk" I was hearing during *some* shifts was not in fact the transmission. YAY! It was a broken weld on one of the mounts. The bolts had, in the engineer's words, been "completely tweaked". I interpret this to mean that they were bent, stripped, or even sheared. Fixing that was a couple hours of labor. Far better than transmission trouble. Phew.
2. He could not reproduce the loss of power I've been seeing. Boo! No shock, though: this hasn't acted up "properly" for any mechanic yet. I can reproduce it reliably, so I may have to drive it myself with a mechanic beside me.
3. He re-soldered the connection to my rear window defrost. YAY! I can solder, myself, but not on glass.
4. He could see nothing wrong with my battery/alternator. No surprise. I know there's a problem, but it's still developing. It simply hasn't gotten bad enough yet. Even when it does, I can probably quote the bill to within ten dollars. It happens every two to three years on this car. It's the voltage regulator. No, I don't know why.
Guess I don't need a new car quiiiite yet. Heh.
1. The "clunk" I was hearing during *some* shifts was not in fact the transmission. YAY! It was a broken weld on one of the mounts. The bolts had, in the engineer's words, been "completely tweaked". I interpret this to mean that they were bent, stripped, or even sheared. Fixing that was a couple hours of labor. Far better than transmission trouble. Phew.
2. He could not reproduce the loss of power I've been seeing. Boo! No shock, though: this hasn't acted up "properly" for any mechanic yet. I can reproduce it reliably, so I may have to drive it myself with a mechanic beside me.
3. He re-soldered the connection to my rear window defrost. YAY! I can solder, myself, but not on glass.
4. He could see nothing wrong with my battery/alternator. No surprise. I know there's a problem, but it's still developing. It simply hasn't gotten bad enough yet. Even when it does, I can probably quote the bill to within ten dollars. It happens every two to three years on this car. It's the voltage regulator. No, I don't know why.
Guess I don't need a new car quiiiite yet. Heh.
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I believe that is a classic example of a regional expression for FUBAR.
When I lived in Buffalo and worked at Circuit City, I always got a laugh when some old guy came in and said he needed a new TV because his old one had "shit the bed".
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I love that expression: "shit the bed". That's great!