My friend Melissa and I went to Taste of Colorado. It was fun, it was hot, and I feel burnt and exhausted. We walked around and tried to maneuver our way through crowds of rude people. People piss me off and that's why I don't like to go anywhere with large crowds with Greg. They don't have any courtesy for people with strollers. It's irritating.

Thursday night, I was getting in my car to leave work and my car wouldn't start. We spent about 30 minutes trying to jump it and nothing.

Friday, Brian came out and we cleaned off the battery terminals. They were extremely corroded, so we thought that maybe it wasn't getting a proper ground to start it. Tried to jump it again and still a no go. We took the battery out and drove over to Checker and had them test the batter and they said that it was good and they recharged it. When Brian's dad was messing around with the battery, he saw that two of the cells were almost dry (not good), so everyone was surprised to see that the battery was still good. Drove back to my work, put the battery in, car still wouldn't start. Conclusion #2, the starter, but it was too dark on Friday to do anything with it.

Saturday, drove out to my work AGAIN. Took the starter out and had it tested...but Checker couldn't do it and they said it was something that they didn't make any after-market parts for *just my luck*...We drove over to Napa, they had one in stock, they could test the starter and saw that it was bad. We had to drive all the way out to Commerce City to the Napa warehouse to get my starter...$173.00 down the toilet.

Drove all the way back out there and the car started after we put the starter in. Worked great...drove to Brian's parent's house and had lunch, started me car and drove up to Target to get some chicken and stuff for dinner. I was leaving Target, car wouldn't start.

I called my dad, he said that he'd gotten bad starters before and maybe we just got a dud starter. Tore the starter out AGAIN and had it tested and it worked fine. That left the battery...I guess when the cells go dry, the battery can show like it's working, but it really isn't working...thus explaining why I could drive around, but my car would die. SO, bought a battery ($113.00)...and put it in and haven't had a problem since.

This morning, driving to work. Everything was running fantastically (almost too perfect) because I got pulled over by a Federal Heights police officer. Got a $116.00 ticket for speeding (not going to lie, I was speeding)...

SO...all in all, not such a hot weekend (other than Taste of Colorado)...

But yeah...if you read through that entire thing, good for you. Maybe you learned something about cars ;)

Ugh, car problems. Well, at least you got it fixed and whatnot.
» randomjunk on 2008-08-31 09:46:09

Hope you wont need to spend too much next weekend. Sounds like the car was a total bad luck for you this weekend.

Now I'm partially grateful for not having a car but I kind of still need a car to make life way better.

RE:
I want to go back to that one year after high school and before university, that I year I spent in college doing Grade 12 stuff. Though, going back to my second last year of high school isnt that bad.
» Nuttz on 2008-08-31 11:17:00

Oh man...
That totally sucks. I must say I hate cars, and police. Sorry you had such a crappy weekend :(
» ChrissyBabe1718 on 2008-09-01 05:07:26

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