Tag: car repairs

It’s just a bunch of hot air

So I took my car in to get the A/C fixed. The guy said it was out of freon and needed a refill. So 90 bucks later it was filled and I took it home. He said it worked and blew cool air.

I drove it back to the station–around 3 blocks roundtrip. It did NOT cool. I took it home, it still was blowing hot air. Story of my life. Lots of hot air around me! Oy.

So I took it back in this morning and informed the mechanic that it was just blowing hot air and he was surprised and said he would look at it.

When he called me this afternoon he finally had an explanation!
Apparently, it blew some sort of valve in the tube after he tested it. It then proceeded to leak out all the freon again!

He’s not going to charge me for the new freon or the labor and the part will be in tomorrow. And that will only cost me $12-$14.

This had better work!

“A car is a hole in the road that you pour money into.”

That quote comes from my dad. He’s said it my whole life about all car repairs and even just putting gas into the cars in general.

Friday night I noticed when I accelerated my car was super loud. Like something was wrong with the muffler. I called my mechanic (the dealer) and they said I had a cracked tailpipe. They told me to call this other guy to fix it because it would be cheaper.

As I was leaving the dealer I tried to turn my air conditioner on. Cold air would not come out of the vents. I took it to the mechanic right next to my station today.

His diagnosis?

Cracked tail pipe: take it to a muffler shop-it will be cheaper.
A/C needed a recharge: $91.70 later I’m good to go for the rest of the summer. It’s much too hot here NOT to have a working air conditioner. So I will bite the bullet and do the A/C recharge. I seriously hate spending money on car repairs. Oh well. It can’t be helped. And I can’t take it with me!

Have a good Tuesday friends!