Saturday, May 03, 2008
how many men does it take to change a light bulb?
Today was Friday and thus I did not have to go to uni! yay. But I ended up just wasting time at home. argh stupid mazda. Is it so hard just to change one damn lightbulb??
K lah to be fair, I love my car. Not love love like loving a material thing, but hey it's my very first set of wheels, so WHY CAN'T YOU JUST STOP FALLING APART?!!!
Yup, the car's 14 years old this year and has done almost 200,000 kms, which is quite a bit so as you can probably imagine it has its fair share of problems. I recently sent it for servicing. The basic servicing costs the standard hundred over dollars and I told the mechanic to list out what needs to be repaired on the vehicle. Turns out at the end of the servicing, he listed down about half a page of repairs that need to be done, which includes minor repairs such as replacing wiper blades (which I changed myself and beaming with pride like a waxed apple) to air filter, power steering fluid flush, rear boot joints, CV joints as well as all four brake rotor and pads. Can it be done? Sure, all for about $3000 yeah sure.
I mean please! The old bomb only costs $3800 and i've already spent more than 2 grand on previous repairs. No way am I gonna go ahead with those repairs.
Here's the problem with Australia though. The parts may not cost that much to purchase, but what kills you is the cost that they charge for labour, just for the guy to repair it for you. Sure, the guy's skilled and all, but it's just costly compared to where I come from. Ah well, the pros and cons of living in Australia.
Which brings me to my next point: How many men does it take to change a lightbulb? Well, none apparently, because the lightbulb isn't even changed yet!! Here's what happened. Thursday night I thought i'd study with Angel so after we ate at Subway I went to Supercheap Auto and bought some bulbs and new wiper blades (I saved $$ doing this myself already). I spent a good couple of hours just trying to figure out how to remove the bulb alone, and even when Angel's two housemates came to help, they too couldn't figure out how it was done.
sigh.So back to Friday and in better lighting conditions now, I managed to change my blown parking light (yay) but I still haven't figured how to open the front headlight cover to change the bulb. Yes, the car is still driving one-eye blind. Even the car manual doesn't say how to do it!! Argh frustrating. I'm going to drive down to the mechanic this monday to see if they can help me out. Bah. They better not charge me lor.
But anyway, the car's running a lot better now after the servicing, praise God for that. Before the service it used to make this really loud scream (especially in cold weather) cos of some belt inside and dunno what other thing, but it's all sorted out now. And despite her age,
Her Royal Hotness (as christened by Amy Lee) runs like a beauty, and just like the stereotypical image of a man, I love my car.
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