More Car Info: Update-Fix is delayed until tomorrow

Worse than I thought

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Interesting, the drawing above has three fingers and a thumb on one hand, and five, with a presumed thumb, on the other. That averages out.

Well, we didn’t manage to get to the auto parts place that people suggested to get our blinking engine light looked at. After a couple of days, the car started deciding it didn’t like going up hills on the highway. We’ve previously had that issue when I’ve delayed changing the oil too long, so I thought changing the oil early might stop our issue, but if anything, it made it worse. Suddenly the car slowed down about 30 mph on the highway, and not even on the hills. I was scared to drive it.

Interestingly enough, it worked almost fine on the back roads. It would go faster on the back roads than it would on the highway, which confused me. It still grumbled and complained on the hills, but within the range of traffic.

We had it towed to our normal service place, and got word back that its catalytic converter disintegrated, and messed up the exhaust. I didn’t know catalytic converters could do that.

Anyway, another repair that we need that is taking money out of our rebuilding budget. I hope that’s it for a while.

It should be ready to be picked up this afternoon, so we should no longer have to depend on generous family and friends to take my son to and from work.

Update: Alack and Alas, As a friend was driving me down to get the car, we got a call from the shop that it wasn’t ready yeat, and won’t be ready until mid-morning tomorrow. Which means that we have to scramble for rides for our son again, for one more day, as well as prevailing upon my friend to drive me down tomorrow. Hopefully we have better news then.

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