GottaHavePride
3/4/2006, 12:16 AM
So I'm driving to St. Louis on Sunday - I have an audition for the St. Louis Symphony on Monday. This bodes well, right? Thursday night I was up at school for several hours to sit through a dress rehearsal for an opera that I'm not playing or conducting. Fairly pointless. Plus, the chick that gets topless has her back to the audience the whole time, so it doesn't even have that going for it.
Anyway, I get back to my car about 11:00 and notice "Hey, that's weird, why is the A/C fan blowing even though the car is turned off?" Needless to say, the battery doesn't have enough juice to turn over the engine. I decide to call PG to come get me and I'll deal with it in the morning.
Morning arrives, I call AAA (PG's car doesn't have enough power to jump my car either) and have them come give me a boost. Once it's started, I drive around for about 15 minutes to at least charge the battery a bit and drive the car to the shop so they can figure out why the A/C fan didn't shut off.
So they call me around noon today and tell me the power control module on the A/C is fried, the battery is leaking acid, and it probably needs new cables to the battery. Grand total they quote me? $1100. Gotta have a car, though, so I tell them to do it.
They call me back at about 6:00 and tell me there's good news and bad news. Good news is that they didn't have to put new cables on the battery - they got the corrosion cleaned off. Also, they got the power control module for several hundred dollars cheaper than they thought it would be. Bad news - they figured out what fried the module in the first place. One of the a/c blowers pulls too high an amperage, so they have to replace it, too. Bottom line, it will cost probably quite a bit less than they originally told me, but they won't be done until Monday.
So I guess I'm driving PG's car to St. Louis, and Iggy gets to ferry her around on Sunday and Monday if she needs anything.
Anyway, I get back to my car about 11:00 and notice "Hey, that's weird, why is the A/C fan blowing even though the car is turned off?" Needless to say, the battery doesn't have enough juice to turn over the engine. I decide to call PG to come get me and I'll deal with it in the morning.
Morning arrives, I call AAA (PG's car doesn't have enough power to jump my car either) and have them come give me a boost. Once it's started, I drive around for about 15 minutes to at least charge the battery a bit and drive the car to the shop so they can figure out why the A/C fan didn't shut off.
So they call me around noon today and tell me the power control module on the A/C is fried, the battery is leaking acid, and it probably needs new cables to the battery. Grand total they quote me? $1100. Gotta have a car, though, so I tell them to do it.
They call me back at about 6:00 and tell me there's good news and bad news. Good news is that they didn't have to put new cables on the battery - they got the corrosion cleaned off. Also, they got the power control module for several hundred dollars cheaper than they thought it would be. Bad news - they figured out what fried the module in the first place. One of the a/c blowers pulls too high an amperage, so they have to replace it, too. Bottom line, it will cost probably quite a bit less than they originally told me, but they won't be done until Monday.
So I guess I'm driving PG's car to St. Louis, and Iggy gets to ferry her around on Sunday and Monday if she needs anything.