hifi239
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- Will
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In six months and as many thousand miles, I've come to really love my modestly-optioned RWD. But in that time, I've had about as many incidents as I had in my Mercedes in the past 10 years:
1. A few months in I got a screw in a rear tire while on a long trip when I went to an EA station next to a Home Depot (why?). It actually went in perfectly and wasn't leaking so I drove 200 miles home (tic tic tic). Had it removed and plugged. All set.
2. Driving at night in the country I saw a whiteish animal in the middle of the road. I figured it was a rabbit and would scurry out of the way, so I didn't quite slow down enough. Well, as it happens there is a black animal with white stripes that doesn't feel the need to scurry out of the way of anything. I straddle-rolled it (I think it was OK), but I spent the next week pressure-washing the underside daily with vinegar and Dawn.
3. I stay far away from dump trucks and flatbeds carrying muddy loaders on the highway. I was driving 30mph on a surface street that is actually prohibited to trucks, and so a giant dump truck came around an outside bend going the other direction and smack, a rock flew off and cracked my windshield. Replacement was almost $2000 (insured).
4. Today I ran over something on the highway, and this time, I watched the tire pressure start dropping. I pulled off an exit and came to a stop as it hit 0 psi. I tried my alternative solution to the factory fix-a-flat (which isn't so good if you want to save the tire). I used my Slime DIY plug kit from Amazon. It worked well enough to get me home, although I will have the tire professionally patched.
What is the right talisman to hang from the mirror here?
1. A few months in I got a screw in a rear tire while on a long trip when I went to an EA station next to a Home Depot (why?). It actually went in perfectly and wasn't leaking so I drove 200 miles home (tic tic tic). Had it removed and plugged. All set.
2. Driving at night in the country I saw a whiteish animal in the middle of the road. I figured it was a rabbit and would scurry out of the way, so I didn't quite slow down enough. Well, as it happens there is a black animal with white stripes that doesn't feel the need to scurry out of the way of anything. I straddle-rolled it (I think it was OK), but I spent the next week pressure-washing the underside daily with vinegar and Dawn.
3. I stay far away from dump trucks and flatbeds carrying muddy loaders on the highway. I was driving 30mph on a surface street that is actually prohibited to trucks, and so a giant dump truck came around an outside bend going the other direction and smack, a rock flew off and cracked my windshield. Replacement was almost $2000 (insured).
4. Today I ran over something on the highway, and this time, I watched the tire pressure start dropping. I pulled off an exit and came to a stop as it hit 0 psi. I tried my alternative solution to the factory fix-a-flat (which isn't so good if you want to save the tire). I used my Slime DIY plug kit from Amazon. It worked well enough to get me home, although I will have the tire professionally patched.
What is the right talisman to hang from the mirror here?
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