(note: to prevent any confusion - this post is referring to my car. Sorry History Elephant...)
5. There's something wrong with the air intake which, thankfully, took 15 minutes to diagnose and fix.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Kangaroo Tucson
Q: When is a Hyundai Tucson not a Hyundai Tucson?
A: When it's a kangaroo.
Firstly, however, the important news... YY and Frankie continue to do well. YY's struggling a bit now the anaesthetic is all out of her system but is making good progress. Poor little Frankie got bitten by her first mosquito yesterday but is still a lovely little thing. I am finding it to be difficult to be as happy as I thought I would be simply because YY is in a lot of pain at times.
Last night the car decided that it wanted to impersonate a kangaroo and hop away every time it started off from stationary. Aside from the unpleasant feeling it leaves in the stomach, it seemed likely that this was a precursor to something worse.
Research on the web came up with nothing for kangarooing automatic cars. I have so far assumed that likely problems are:
1. Low quality fuel
2. Clutch problem
3. Gearbox problem
I have just arrived at the car dealer where I bought the car where I have been presented with a new option:
4. I'm an idiot and can't drive an automatic
Now, I might have accepted this were it not the fact that I was perfectly capable of driving an automatic yesterday morning and at all other times over the course of the preceeding year and don't believe that I simply forgot last night.
Fuel quality doesn't seem that likely to me as I drove about 200km since I refuelled on Friday without incident and adding more fuel seems pointless as I still have half a tank.
The idea of breaking down with Frankie in the back in the increasingly cold weather (down to 10 degrees C yesterday) seems an extremely unpleasant one.
A: When it's a kangaroo.
Firstly, however, the important news... YY and Frankie continue to do well. YY's struggling a bit now the anaesthetic is all out of her system but is making good progress. Poor little Frankie got bitten by her first mosquito yesterday but is still a lovely little thing. I am finding it to be difficult to be as happy as I thought I would be simply because YY is in a lot of pain at times.
Last night the car decided that it wanted to impersonate a kangaroo and hop away every time it started off from stationary. Aside from the unpleasant feeling it leaves in the stomach, it seemed likely that this was a precursor to something worse.
Research on the web came up with nothing for kangarooing automatic cars. I have so far assumed that likely problems are:
1. Low quality fuel
2. Clutch problem
3. Gearbox problem
I have just arrived at the car dealer where I bought the car where I have been presented with a new option:
4. I'm an idiot and can't drive an automatic
Now, I might have accepted this were it not the fact that I was perfectly capable of driving an automatic yesterday morning and at all other times over the course of the preceeding year and don't believe that I simply forgot last night.
Fuel quality doesn't seem that likely to me as I drove about 200km since I refuelled on Friday without incident and adding more fuel seems pointless as I still have half a tank.
The idea of breaking down with Frankie in the back in the increasingly cold weather (down to 10 degrees C yesterday) seems an extremely unpleasant one.
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