Let's start from the begining. Eddy has had a leaky roof ever since he has been with me. That is not a problem until it rains or snows and the moisture from the ceiling leaks through on to the seats or disperses through the air onto the windows and windshield. My boss' husband tried to fix that last week by putting some gooey stuff in by the windshield. However, that didn't work and I still have to scrape my windows from the inside and outside of the car.
Eddy has also always smelled a little wierd. It is probably from the moisture the is in the ceiling, which by the way leaves a wonderful white residue. I refer to it as "decoration". About a month ago Belle bought me some air fresheners, so now Eddy smells like strawberry instead of soggyness.
These two minor flaws have been around all along, and don't really bother me. The real trouble started when it finally got cold outside. January is when the weird sounds started occuring. First I noticed a squeaky sound around my glovebox. That turned out just to be my heater, which is temperamental and doesn't work if it gets too cold outside. I can deal with a squeaky heater. It is slightly annoying, but I doesn't cost me any money.
After I figured that out another noise arose from the depths of the car. There was a loud clicking sound that would happen whenever I accelerated. After a few weeks of ignoring the sound and hoping it would go away, my boss' husband once again helped me out and advised me that I needed to check my oil. Well, it happened to be that Eddy was totally out of oil. If only someone had told me before that you need to check that regularly. Anyways, I put some oil in Eddy, and that solved the problem, for about a day.
Now I have a new sound. This new sound is an extremely loud droning sound. At first thought, most assumed that it was my muffler. This was sad news because mufflers cost money. However after having my brother crawl under the car, (I would do it, but I have no idea what I would be looking for), He informed me that my exhaust pipe broke off. It will cost me about $100.00 to fix Eddy.
He sounds so terrible. I passed 3 cop cars today and was afraid I would get pulled over for being to loud, but that didn't happen. I suppose I will have to put the passport on hold and fix Eddy first. At least he still gets me where I need to go. Hopefully he will make a full recovery and start acting normal again.
8 comments:
Poor Eddie! I must say I had quit a chuckle reading about Eddie's misfortune. Hope for your and Eddie's sake it warms up soon.
PR
Awww...Lay hands on him and he shall be healed! Hey...it worked with my dryer!! Twice!
I'm with Dale:):):)
He sure does sound bad. At least we know you are coming when you turn off of Main St.!
Aww...poor Eddy...we'll pray too! It would be sad if he couldn't be passed on to Belle!
Poor Eddy. It does sound like the muffler. so loud! I didn't know about the moisture thing. Course I've never had a ride in him either.
And no oil???? What were you thinking? It's supposed to be changed every 3 months or so. I guess you learn as you go.
wow sounds interesting... You could always pray for your car to be healed.. I'm sure God will work things out with providing the money to get Eddy Fixed.
I understand how it is to have problems with a car. My car, Charlotte, basically when whacky one time home from Sandusky. I really think God got us home because it turned out that the car went dead in the middle of going up the driveway. Something that starts with an a had to be replaced. Also, a month ago the underside of my trunk was all ice and it wont close unless I open it with a key. I also have 4-60 air conditioning (roll all four windows down and drive 60mph) which works but not on rainy days. I hope all my problums make you feal better (hahahaha) but I really do love my car dispite all of it's problums cuz she is my tank! (ask Daniel what I mean by that)
Luv ya as a sister in Christ,
KK
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