September 27, 2004

Stick Shifts and Safetybelts

Last Friday I started up my wonderful Toyota Camry (you should all buy one even though everybody in America has one) and it made the strangest noise. It sounded like something was caught in my air vent, so I turned off the interior fan and the car sounded like it was running fine, then I turned the interior fan back on... yep definetly something caught in my fan.

Since I have a Toyota warrenty on my car I took the car to a Toyota dealership near me... they weren't very nice. I drove up and they asked me what was wrong and I told them. They said they could look at it next Thursday (this was Friday), so I asked them where the other Toyota dealership was, and they upped the date to Tuesday. Seriously, they want me to go all weekend without knowing what's wrong with my car? I don't think so. Again I asked them where the other Toyota dealership was and they told me. I called and got an appointment from the 'nice Toyota dealership' the next day.

Going in I was assuming a fan or belt had broken. I am not so lucky that my car would break and it'd actually be covered under the warrenty. Instead a rat (or mouse) crawled up into my fan cage and, um, for lack of a better word, exploded. They had to then clean out all the little rat pieces from my fan ducts. Yummy. It took them three and a half hours to do this... but I am glad I didn't have to do it! The dealership said they get around one car a week where this happens... it cost me a 100, but that's not bad considering I didn't have to clean up rat pieces.... ewwww.

Posted by 10lees at September 27, 2004 10:26 PM