CarThursday, October 18, 2007Some PicsHere are some pics of Joys new car and our weird trees. We have four trees of the same type, except one things its not Autumn yet and wont change, the others are a beautiful deep ruby red colour. You can see the lack of rain has really taken its toll on our lawns.
The Saturn Ion is the same as the Chevy cobalt. Wednesday, October 17, 2007New CarJoys faithful Isuzu Rodeo died. Well it didn’t die as much needed a makeover. We had been having problems with the radiator guzzling fluid, it was coming out of the overflow bottle due to a blockage somewhere (pressure test found nothing and block test on the engine found nothing)… So we put it in to have Merchants check it out. Well I never! It needed four new tires, we’d done the CV boot and damaged the axle, radiator to be flushed and hoses changed, pressure test + block test. It was going to cost us over $1,200 to fix (and we had paid out $500 the previous week on the rear bearing). Its only worth $1500!! So we found ourselves at the Saturn dealership that was doing zero percent finance on 2007 models. They gave us $1700 for the rodeo (whoo!!) and we got a new car for less than we would have got for a second hand car. The downside is it is a 5 speed manual transmission on a 2.2 liter engine. Joy cant drive a manual transmission. So last night we found ourselves in the church parking lot with me trying to instruct joy in her first lesson which was ok. We learned joy cant keep the revs constant (she pulses the accelerator). Once we learn how to keep the revs constant we will be ok, We did a couple of smooth starts and we stalled a couple of times, which is ok. In the meantime I am driving it to work. Posted by Stu on 10/17 at 08:37 AM Permalink to this post.
Filed Under : Car • Commented on by (0) people. Read or Post Comments Here Friday, October 12, 2007GardeningThe veggie patch is now knee high weeds and dry midget corn stalks. Joy and I did find one tiny bell pepper plant still growing in the weeds when we looked the other day. I really need to hoe it under, cover it in some straw + fertilizer and cover the top in black plastic and let it sit covered all fall + winter. Our haning basket plants have withered up and mostly died off for the autum. Leaves have turned and are dropping all over the road, so all we need is a little autum shower and the roads will be very slick and slippery. Temperatures have dropped. Wednesday it was 90’s (30c) and Thursday it was low 60’s (17c). Last night the heater came on so I know it dropped down low...Lets hope the unsually warm October weather is passed us now, we really need some rain/snow this year. Joys rodeo is slowly dieing, its consuming coolant in vast quantities but nobody knows where its going, engine oil is not creamy so its not going into the engine.. no puddles on the ground. Garage did a pressure test and that was ok. We are going to get the radiator flushed and hoses changed and will just nurse it along with extra coolant every other day, as the option was to deplete our savings and look for another car, but we decided not to do that as having a savings buffer is too important right now.
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