'Shindig'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
AAA will even bring you gas if you're a dumbass and run out.
Yup. My brother has utilized this benefit a lot when he had a car with a faulty gauge. He was also a dumbass, though.
I usually manage to scrape a few $/day off on things like hotels and rentals. And train tickets.
Oh yeah. Totally going to die of boredom today.
Yeah, AAA is the best. And they cover you, not your car. So, if you're out with a friend who gets a flat, or whatever, they'll still come help.
I managed to find the jack, free the temporary spare and to start jacking up the van by the time DH could get out of work and get there. It's a good thing he came because he had trouble with the lug nuts so there's no way I'd have had the strength to loosen them. Feh.
I hope you never need to know this in the future, but in case you do ever get another flat, and can't contact help...
Loosen the lug nuts before you jack up the car, at all. Don't take them off, but loosen them. It still might be too hard, but it's easier when the weight of the car is on the wheels, and you have more leverage, too.
Cash, I've found the plus membership to be worth the money because of the extended towing -- I've been able to insist they take the car to my mechanic.
Every time I watch Iron Chef, Bobby Flay loses.
That explains why my brother is so goddamn happy all the time.
Personal feud or just because Flay isn't a very good chef?
I'm stressed about stuff at the co-op and sleepy. The conbination of stress and sleep is making me barely able to stay awake. If I could only sleep the entire weekend away.
Loosen the lug nuts before you jack up the car, at all. Don't take them off, but loosen them. It still might be too hard, but it's easier when the weight of the car is on the wheels, and you have more leverage, too.
We totally found that out! Good advice. I highly recommend a dry-run when you get a new vehicle. This was all new stuff and I had to figure it out by reading the manual. Which was fine and I didn't have any trouble but if it had been at night, or in the middle of nowhere (like when I drive the kids to Indiana) or snowing, it would have sucked more.
Cash, I've found the plus membership to be worth the money because of the extended towing -- I've been able to insist they take the car to my mechanic.
Considering I drive over 150 miles (with the kids) at least once a month to visit family in Indiana, this is probably the level I should get.
neither I nor burly cab driver could loosen the damned lug nuts.
I have the cheapo tire iron that doesn't have a crossbar -- which is good, because it gives me just the right surface area to jump up and down on the iron. My car is small enough and light enough that a 130-lb. weight bouncing on the socket wrench is enough to move a lug nut.
(But you have to jump. None of this just leaning thing.)
Oh, believe me, I tried that (also cheapy tire iron. But now I want a crossbar one.) The guy did say they were really tight, even for having been put on by a machine. So I had some vindication that I wasn't a complete wimp. Which I am, but still.
Cash, I've found the plus membership to be worth the money because of the extended towing -- I've been able to insist they take the car to my mechanic.
Considering I drive over 150 miles (with the kids) at least once a month to visit family in Indiana, this is probably the level I should get.I second that. It was thanks to the AAA+ that we were able to have our car towed home from Maine without laying out any money, after our accident last year (and the two truck driver took us home, too).
We totally found that out! Good advice. I highly recommend a dry-run when you get a new vehicle. This was all new stuff and I had to figure it out by reading the manual. Which was fine and I didn't have any trouble but if it had been at night, or in the middle of nowhere (like when I drive the kids to Indiana) or snowing, it would have sucked more.
My dad made me learn how to change a tire, jump start a battery, and check the oil, add oil, and check and add anti-freeze/coolant, before he'd let me get my license (which I think might have been 22 years ago, yesterday).