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car & driver
Sep. 11th, 2012 07:12 pmSo last week I had to drop a new battery in the Yaris. This past Sunday I figured it was time to get that slow leak in the rear passenger tire investigated. Went a few blocks over to the local garage, open seven days a week, to get it plugged. The local garages are kind of a toss of the dice - they're either great people who will cut you a deal, or total ripoff artists. We used to use Starling over at Dundas & Bathurst, but we're a little further west now. Anyway, this local garage (A&A Garage) is in the former category - speedy and reasonably priced service, on Sundays even. Also a fuzzy shop cat.
They pulled TWO nails out of that tire AND fixed the leaky stem valve AND fixed a rim leak. That tire had PROBLEMS. Plenty of tread left on it, though. While it was up on the dolly they went ahead and rotated the tires; I feel a little better about the upcoming winter with more tread up front.
While I was there a woman came up with a fairly new Audi, wanting to know how to put oil in it because the dashboard indicator told her it needed half a liter. Didn't know how to, you know, buy a liter bottle and put half of it in.
I need to start a business that puts oil in cars for clueless yuppies. Maybe branch out into adding windshield wiper fluid and checking tire pressure. Why take chances? Have DAVE check your pressure the SCIENTIFIC way!
In other news I sold a bunch of stuff at the SF/Anime Flea, and I am more than half way done with compiling material for AWA's Anime Hell, and the new DVD recorder is working swell. And holy cow digging up old Hell footage from ten years ago, well, sometimes that's a pain.
They pulled TWO nails out of that tire AND fixed the leaky stem valve AND fixed a rim leak. That tire had PROBLEMS. Plenty of tread left on it, though. While it was up on the dolly they went ahead and rotated the tires; I feel a little better about the upcoming winter with more tread up front.
While I was there a woman came up with a fairly new Audi, wanting to know how to put oil in it because the dashboard indicator told her it needed half a liter. Didn't know how to, you know, buy a liter bottle and put half of it in.
I need to start a business that puts oil in cars for clueless yuppies. Maybe branch out into adding windshield wiper fluid and checking tire pressure. Why take chances? Have DAVE check your pressure the SCIENTIFIC way!
In other news I sold a bunch of stuff at the SF/Anime Flea, and I am more than half way done with compiling material for AWA's Anime Hell, and the new DVD recorder is working swell. And holy cow digging up old Hell footage from ten years ago, well, sometimes that's a pain.
