We had an appointment for 8:45 at Discount Tire this morning. We were there 10 minutes early, they got right after it, we went to Denny's (next door) for breakfast, picked up the car, went to the grocery store, then back to the motorhome by 10:15.
Timely.
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After getting Rufus his lunch, we headed to Steph's house; one of her furry boys needs some medicine and it needs to be given at a specific time. Fortunately, we are available when needed - Mom and Dad to the rescue (well, Grandma and Grandpa to that furry boy). He's a good boy and is quite patient while we give him his pills. And since we are there, it was a good time to update all our devices on their fast home wifi, do some laundry, and Joan made some paste e fagioli (soup) to get us through the crap weather forecast for tomorrow (more of that cold, windy, rain, blowing dust stuff - with a chance of snow just north of us). That was the purpose for the stop at the grocery store this morning.
While Joan was making soup, I had some time to drive to the nearby motorcycle dealer, hoping to get to see the new Honda Rebel 1100T (a Rebel with a windshield mount fairing, saddle bags, and dual clutch transmission). Of course, they didn't have one; in fact, they had 3 Hondas that weren't dirt bikes: a Ruckus scooter, a Goldwing dresser, and a last year's flat black Shadow. I didn't spend much time there.
On the way back to Steph's place, I got a Tire Pressure Monitoring System alert on my dash... it wasn't a low tire, there was no readout on either tire on the driver's side of the Equinox. When I got back, I went through recommended reset procedures on the internet, none of which worked. The owners manual said, "See your Chevrolet dealer where they will use a reset tool." Instead, I called Discount Tire. The nice young man apologized for the inconvenience and told me to bring the car in and they'd getting taken care of.
Once back at the motorhome and all our stuff unloaded, I took the Equinox back to Discount Tire. It took longer to wait in line for a service writer than it did for that service writer to reset the system with his "tool" (that looked a lot like an old-time TV remote). Truly, about 30 seconds per tire. He once again apologized that I had to come back, but I was appreciate that they took care of it on the spot. Our dealings with Discount Tire have always been good.
2 comments:
Last time I got a low pressure signal was in our VW bug convertible. It was the spare in the trunk. I swear we had to nearly disassemble the rear end to get to the valve stem, which of course faced down in the most inaccessible orientation. Speaking as an engineer, I think that all engineers should be forced to maintain the vehicles they design. Then these systems where they start with a bolt and build the car around it just wouldn’t happen.
Alice got back on Saturday afternoon without incident. Our friend in Tucson got sick and Alice skipped that part of the trip and just came home three days early. She’s off to flute practice again tonight, so I’m alone with kitty duty again for the evening.
Good you have Alice back home again. But, still solo kitty duty. Speaking of engineers and design: what's with RVs that can sleep 8 but only have seating for 4?? You can tell our compact RV was designed with a couple in mind... feeds 2, seats 2, sleeps 2. And a cat. ;-)
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