Just waving HI!!!

Maverickgrrl · Oct 21, 2006

I swear, Aube is the spiritual cousin of Alice - just as hot headed and 'do it my way'!

OK, so after dealing with the monkey repair shops and finding my old mechanic, Aube is REFUSING to let go of her O2 sensor. He's even whipped out the electric drill to try to wrench this part away from the block! Nothing!! On top of it, SOMEHOW her dipstick is *missing*.

So with a makeshift plug, and the plan to get the sensor off on MONDAY after Erick orders a *special* wrench, I go off to check 3 wrecking yards, the auto parts store, and even the dealership -

NOTHING - not a single place has a compatible oil dipstick.

As a last resort, I go to the oil change place to ask them if by any chance they had seen it - they swear up and down they didn't touch the thing. Bear in mind, these guys are the fith person to check under her hood since we discovered the dipstick was missing. All at once, one of them sees it tucked away along the SIDE of the engine compartment...

OK, so all this dashing aorund has made miss A a bit hungery, so I fill her up with some premium... cruising down the road, I suddenly realised that the bane of my last three days, the CEL is OFF.... I get off the free way, ideling at the light she's fine. A half hour of puttering about, with stoplights and what not. It stays off, and her idel is smoother.

I ended up taking the part back to the store (76$ back into the bank) and cancelling our appointment to go back on monday to get it installed - on the wau home I stopped at Wally word in the tiny hope that there might just be a fresh cherry....

$1.97 - little red Maverick! The only one they had.

It rest safely in my consol comaprtment - a mini Voodoo Alice to keep the mighty gods of Toreador red Kansas Fords happy...