Thursday, 13 June 2002

Foo

On our way back from sneak (they had decided on Unfaithful. Oh well...) suddenly Foo (the car) didn't cooperate anymore. It got stuck in third gear. And no matter what gear you chose you always ended up in third gear. Even reverse gear made the car go forward. Clutch still worked so we figured it had to be some kind of problem with the shift mechanism itself. We drove home in third gear and pushed the car backwards into a parking space.

Today we got up extra early and brought Foo to the garage next door to hopefully get it fixed. The friendly mechanics quickly found out that some ball joint got disconnected somehow (so the gear you chose didn't get translated to the gearbox). They fixed that and didn't even want any money for it. So we tipped them and drove off to be back in time for the second half of Brazil vs. Costa Rica (great game btw.).

I'm glad we got off that lightly this time (compared to last time). I do hope everything will be okay for a while now!

  Posted by Edda at 16:22 CET