Adventures Along Life’s Road?

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

  

Happy Anniversary.  Thank you, Sweetheart, for 19 wonderful years together.  I love  you and all the fun and traveling we have done and look forward to many more years together along life’s road. 

Not the kind of day we expected on our anniversary.  Getting in the car for an adventure to another lake and a logging state park came to an abrupt stop when the car would not start.  A call to Roadside Assistance for what we thought would be a battery charge turned into a trip for the car to a local dealership.  They were unable to start the car and couldn’t even get the car into neutral so had to pull the car from the back onto the tow truck.

Many of you may have read that we had been having trouble with the car doing some weird things lately and a trip to our local dealer in ABQ and one to the dealer in Redding, turned up nothing.  Local dealer put in a new battery and Redding dealer could find nothing wrong.  Oh, well, we said, we’ll just continue on as we have until such time as something else happens.  Guess today was the day.  

The car is now at a local dealership to be looked at and a loner sits behind the RV.  We hope by tomorrow they will be able to figure out what no one else has. 

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Since there is no Chevrolet dealer in Klamath Falls, we took a long drive (77) miles one way to the city of Medford located along I-5 and west of our current location to see what the cost of a new Chevrolet Equinox would be and where we could have a new towing package put on nearby should the current car not ever start again.  We also were interested to see what else this beautiful state had to offer in terms of scenery.  We were not disappointed.

It was a beautiful drive along Upper Klamath Falls Lake and then through the forests and up the mountains and down dales to Medford where we found a dealership and talked to a sales person all the while being rather cagey about when and why we needed a new car.  They did have one we liked, but we were still waiting for our service person in Klamath Falls to let us know if he found anything.  

Just as we were leaving the dealership, we got the call.  The service person found the problem, a faulty ground cable to the battery which necessitated removing several other components to even get to it before finding it bad.  Needless to say no one else had bothered to do this.  It took a small town mechanic to do the thorough job. 

As our luck would have it, this cable is not just an ordinary cable that costs little and can be purchased just anywhere, but rather a special cable that works with the electronics in the car and not covered in the extended warranty we carry on the car.  With our okay, the new cable was ordered to be sent overnight and will be installed and work completed tomorrow so we can move further north on Friday.  Yeah!  While it will cost a bit, it was not as bad as we thought it might be and we pray this really is the whole problem. 

More on Friday when we know the results.  No pictures today as the camera operator forgot to charge the battery last night.