Paladin Roaming

Valkyre's Volkswagen

7:45am:

Wendy's New Beetle had the air bag system warning light on for several weeks. Since we were not planning on having an accident we were not very concerned. We had it taken care of a couple of days ago at the 3,000 mile oil change. (This was one of the options that they sold us -- something like 5 years of oil changes every 3,000 miles. We don't care about the price of oil going up, and having already paid for it we have the nudge we need to bring the car in. Every 3,000 miles is overkill, but I want a quarter million miles out of this car. The Old Beetle has well over a third of a million miles on it.)

Two days later the right rear turn signal light doesn't. Unlike the older cars that go solid when a bulb goes out, the New Beetle flashs the remaining lights very fast -- and very annoying. Not to mention that we do use our signals and that I consider telling others my plans as to lane changes and turns to be a safety issue. The service department opens at 7am, even on President's Day, I called and checked and am now sitting in the waiting room, typing this on the laptop. They said I have about a two hour wait.

"May I use the 'phone?"
"Yes."

{GRIN}
I can go on-line and post this while waiting!
{/GRIN}

{FROWN}
Unfortunately, it's on an electronic PBX of some sort, with an 800 Hz dialtone rather than TelCo standard 400 Hz -- my modem does not recognize the 800 Hz as dialtone and will not dial the '9' required to access an outside line.

No playing online.
{/FROWN}

9:20 am:

Car is done, they're giving it a bath and a brush before returning it.

Posted by at February 16, 2004 11:32 AM