Extra! Extra! Slightly-wrong answer detected from mrcougar!

[pyesetz]

My car's at the local dealership today, in the middle of two days of repairs for all the problems that I've been putting off for years.  I do *not* want to cross the Canadian border in a car whose driver's window won't roll down!

Anyway, one of the problems to be fixed is "airbag idiot light is on".  I mentioned this in a post 18 months ago.  At that time, mrcougar asserted (without seeing even a videotape of the patient) that the problem was a bad clockspring and that it was covered by a recall.  Well, yesterday the Chrysler mechanic called me with the itemized bill.  The problem is a bad clockspring, but it is *not* covered by recall because (and this wasn't mentioned in my earlier post) I have a 2002 Voyager and the recall applies only to 2000 and earlier models.

Pay attention, folks!  This isn't something you see every day!  mrcougar's answer was less than 100% correct in every possible way.  That's like getting the 299 ring in league bowling.  I'm sure it's like something in casino gambling—maybe 3 matching fruit on a slot machine but one of them slightly misaligned so non-paying?

Anyway, let's have a paw of applause for everyone's favourite mechanicougar and his mostly-right diagnosis!

Hey, Coug, what will tomorrow's lotto numbers be?

Comments

[mrcougar.livejournal.com]

diagnosis was 100%, the billing department isnt my problem.even so not bad for never even have looked at the vehicle, anyhow go buy a 'Yota instead.

[pyesetz]

Oh come on!  You just assumed that because I had a clockspring problem, then I must have one of the models for which the clockspring is an admitted problem.  I suppose I could put up a fuss with Chrysler that they claimed (in effect) to have fixed the clockspring for the 2001 model year, but here's my 2002 having the same problem so they ought to recall it also.

Is Toyota a lot better than Honda?  I see that Toyota Canada makes the Corolla, Matrix, Lexus RX350, and (soon) RAV4.  Kid #2 will be leaving his booster seat behind soon, so perhaps I can get a Corolla, if it has enough room for my oversized wife.  The Matrix compares itself to the Viper and the Sebring, so not really a "family" car.  The Lexus implies more money than I have.  The RAV4 is an SUV, which presumably means it has excessive road clearance.

Anyway, the Voyager has only 73,000 miles on it, so I'm hoping to go a few more years before buying another car.  I bought it new only because my brother-in-law works for Chrysler and got me an employee discount, but even so it was a major hassle buying from those creepy Chrysler salesdroids.