Waiting for the Hit

Got up early today, dropped the car off at the dealership, and am now sitting at home waiting for the bad news. I've had a very expensive sounding rumble and vibration in the front of the car, intermittently, almost since it was new. The intermittent part is key to understanding my situation.

Initially, it happened only under very limited and specific circumstances: high ambient temperatures (90+), extended and continuous driving at 70-
plus MPH. And even then, only sometimes.

Twice, when I had it into the dealership for routine maintenance, I asked them to check it out and on neither occasion were they able to duplicate or experience the problem. So I basically gave up and lived with it. Bad strategy.

Now, it's got almost 80K miles on it and the conditions under which the problem have broadened considerably. Now it happens at ambient temps above 50 and sustained driving at any speed above 40 MPH.

So now they shouldn't have ANY problem finding it.

As I said, I'm now sitting at home fuming about having to come up with the money to fix it.

I think I feel my credit card quivering, waiting for the hit...

LPK
Dreamwidth
9.30.2020

In Other, Better News

The rain, which had fallen intermittently overnight, stopped for long enough this morning that, even with the cooler temps, the pavement dried off enough that I was able to take Black Allegro off the mag trainer and do my first ride of the day outside.

And after that, I took a short nap and then got "Stella By Starlight Stagg" out of her case and did my practice exercises before lunch. She, I, we sounded worse than we did yesterday, but that's almost a given.

There will always be variations in the quality of day-to-day practice sessions, and that is especially true--and profoundly, painfully noticeable--after a long layoff or when just starting.

And so, with that in mind, I counted the fact that I'd opened her case and made some undignified noises through her (sorry, Stella)--two days in a row--a win, a good thing.

May you find the same in your life today...

LPK
Dreamwidth
9.30.2020