Bah! The cretins at the Honda dealership have pushed off the date of my car’s delivery till Friday. FRIDAY!! UNACCEPTABLE! A plague upon their houses!
As a result, I’m bound to driving my father’s Explorer for a couple more days. Driving an SUV isn’t all that bad. I’ve likened it to driving an apartment to work and back, and I stand by that. It’s been pretty comfortable except for the one or two times I’ve had to come to a short stop. In those cases, the thing gets all squirrely and feels like it’s going to fall to pieces and/or roll end over end or something. not at all stable.
One thing about it that strikes me as quintessential American engineering is the cup holders. there is one normal sized one, and then one other one. It has a rubber insert in it with a hole that’s the same size as the other “normal” sized one. you remove the insert if you’ve gone to any number of fast food places that serves cylindrical drinking troughs (aka “super size” soft drinks”). Additionally, with the insert removed there is a small cut that goes beyond the radius of the cup holder to accomodate a handle… like, from a regular uncovered coffee mug. This being for those who absolutely can’t be bothered to go so far as to use a travel mug. In no country is the engineering involved with laziness as highly developed as in America. Cup holder technology is absolutely paramount here… We can design a cup holder to accomodate a beverage of any size and shape, yet we still use pushrod engines. mmmmm… coffee……
…also, an update on the SVX. you all care, dammit. admit it.
I drained the coolant and filled it with water and some magic radiator-cleaner goo. it says to run the engine as normal for like 3-6 hours with this junk in it. So I drove around on it today. went to see Seth for lunch and then poked around at a few dealerships. The temperature rose a couple times when I came to a stop, but not too high. And it was HOT out today. high 80s. The temp went right down when I started moving and the water pump started…. pumping. The coolant was clear when it went in, and is a sickly orange right now. That will be that much more crap that leaves the engine when I drain it and put coolant back in. For all intents and purposes, the cooling systemis fixed (w00t). Now all that’s left is the transmission. Oh, is that all?
As you may have gathered from recent entries, I’m sick of working on cars. It wasn’t so bad when I had a garage, but I don;t anymore. With a garage, I can work on a car from the moment I get home up till 2 in the morning or whenever I need to. even on a weekday. I can get jobs done on demand and spread the work over a couple days. Without these sorts of facilities, I can’t keep a $2000 car going.
So today I put a deposit on a 2005 civic coupe. Looking at a 5speed in black. Talked them to around $14,800. I’m waiting to hear back from the financing people, but hopefully I will be picking it up tomorrow. w00t. not the coolest or sportiest car in the world, but it’t not all that bad looking IMO. and it will do the pointA-pointB thing reliably. and with crazy good gas milage. I don;t really have any complaints. now if only that call would come in.
Trash chutes are the coolest thing ever. I had a bag of trash that would normally have to be lugged down 4 flights of stairs and into a dumpster. but not here! I simply walk to the door next to my apartment’s entrance, open the magic door to refuseville, and drop the trash into oblivion. Disposing of “whatever the hell” was never easier.
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