Its gone.

I have a '82 Volvo with a radio to match. I went to visit my parent for a while and parked in the back alley. Heading out I unlocked the door to find it already unlocked, the window was down a inch to vint the car and found the radio gone. The radio was at least 10 years old, had a cassette slot and had no memory for radio stations. Who would steal my POS radio.

The car is back.

It took about a week and a half to get the car back. Mostly it was waiting to get the part. The passanger side wiper transmission was broken. It took 2.5 hours to complete and $444.82 for the final cost. One small part that was under the dashboard cost a good amount of money to fix. On a side not, the fan in the Volvo had stoped working about a year ago. It had blown a fuse and was a easy fix.

My car update.

Found out today, that to get to the wipers to check them out (on my '82 Volvo), you have to go thru the dashboard. I myself tried to look at how you get to them and had no luck. Its about 2.5 hours of labor at around $200.00 just to find out what needs to be fixed. Once there, maybe it is a easy fix (fingers crossed). From what I was told, Volvo still make parts that could be used on my car, if it is broken.

On the road home.

Coming back from my parents today, my cars wipers crapped out and stoped working. I pulled over to check what happened. The left one had pooped out and the other one is not working correctly. I need to get it fixed.

The couch and the car.

Dad delivered a leather couch that matches my favorite lounge chair that someone did not want. We did some switching around of the current couch and transferred it back to my parents place for their use. It does not recline like the prev one, but I like it a lot better.
In the truck transferring my old couch, dad stated there was a problem with my Volvo (they are still borrowing my car waiting for a part for their car in the shop). Last weekend I drove my car while my parents came over the bridge to have lunch and a move, I noticed that the pick up when I accelerated was a little off. Tuesday the car loss acceleration, luckily it was near their house and a repair station. Also luckily the cost was not too much, from what dad said, I did offer to pay for it. But declined, saying it was borrowing my car was less that getting a rental car.

What was wrong with my car.

I thought the felt a little funny, so I took them in to the Shell station near work. The breakes were fine, but it was found that the "power rack and pinion steering gear were completely shot making steering extremely unsafe." There was a fair amout of play with the steering. The proble is fixed and $585.36 has been spent. It is safe to drive now.