MORE CAR TROUBLES

Yeah so apparantley my car is some kind of WEIRD machine. It has a special engine in it not what most of the cars just like it have, but something special which makes it so anytime you have to fix something on it you have to pay extra money. (Unfortunately we didn't know this when we bought it.) It's a SAUB Engine.So anyways here is the story apparantley two years ago when we replace the battery you can't just put any batterey in it. It has to be some special one with a certain number of cranking amps and all of this mechanical jargon. Except most normal part stores would have no clue and only the best mechanics would. Anyways two year ago when we replaced the battery we unknowingly put the wrong one in, so for the last two years we have been burning up wiring; and relay systems; and alot of stuff in the car-without even knowing it.

Well the last few weeks my care has been saying weird things and the clock has been going all haywire, so we thought it was the battery, so we took it to Checker and they tested it and said no it's fine, but then when they put the battery back in the car wouldn't start at all. So they said it was the starter. We finally got the car home; and Landon took the starter into ABC AUTO and they said yeah it's bad-so he paid $380 which is actually about $100 less than what the dealer told us. So he put the new starter in and yeah the car still won't start. So last night we called up a tow truck for $25 to haul the car into Midas to hook it up to their computer and figure out what in the heck was going on.

Well they figured it out all right and luckily were able to redo a bunch of stuff and put the right battery in for a grand total of $552. I did have a 10% off coupon so it brough it down to $493 which isn't much though in the grand scheme of things.

So anyways a Grand TOTAL of $898 plus a new starter we didn't actually need, but decided to keep since it would probably be next to go out.

Obviously this just isn't out year what with Landon's hand and all the problems we've had with our car. I feel like someone up there is saying let's just give the Ellison's one more trial and see if they still turn in their tithing.