This past week has been a very busy week for me and my family. It all started last week near the end of the workday. My 13 year old car, the indestructible Mazda Protegé, was at the mechanic’s to have its snow tires replaced with summer ones.
I love this time of year here in Canada; when you get to slap on the summer tires you know the winter has officially come to an end and soon the air will warm up and we can finally come out of hibernation - that’s right, changing our tires here is an official marker of spring time.
Only, last Friday my mechanic refused to put my summer tires on.
He was very sad to report that the life of my beloved car had finally come to an end; he was seeing several cracks in different engine seals, he discovered my water pump was not working properly and was about to die, and noticed my front brakes needed some work as well as new struts. He said that he could not ethically charge me for new summer tires and to put them on - the car was in dire need of around $2,000 in repairs and he felt it was time to just call it.
He said it’d be safe to drive home, but to start shopping for a replacement soon. We spent the next 4 days madly rushing between dealerships checking out new and used cars. My budget was more in-line with used cars, and we finally decided on a 2008 Pontiac G6 - which is a pretty snazzy ride in comparison to my old Protegé.
Despite the many hours rushing around town looking for a new used vehicle, I managed to come across some pretty awesome links, here they are as found on my tumblog:
- Carousel
- La Machine - Big Spider in Yokohama
- Chronicles of Humanity
- Twitter Using Only Your Brain
- Would Buffy Choose Spike or Angel?
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