The other day my AC went out in my car...hooray. Actually it was the fan for the blower, so technically the AC is working, it's just that there is nothing to blow it into the car. The theory is that something crawled into it and died, like a mouse, a rock or a small dinosaur. I also have a theory that it was either "the man" or alien robots, but I'm still working on proof. Anyway, I'm pretty pissed because my car isn't old enough for things like that to die. I'll never forget where I was the day the fan died. I was in my car...on the way to Target which is about 5 minutes from my house (that might come in handy if you are trying to stalk me). Anyway about 1 minute into the drive it died. I tried everything to get it to work. I tried turning on and off the blower about 27 times. I tried it with the AC button on and off. For some reason I even tried it with the radio turned down...none of that worked. About 2 minutes into the drive I looked like I had been running laps in a sauna. I don't mean to brag, it's just that I'm pretty good at sweating.
So the other day I decided to take a look at it and see if I couldn't some how fix it. I grabbed my tool box, a heavy blanket, and one of those hangy light things (I also made a sandwich). I put on a pair of of old work jeans and found an even older t-shirt. I then checked myself in the mirror and realized I looked like a real stud. Like I should be a model in the Sears catalogue. I then took a little greasy and rubbed it on my jeans and shirt...even studlier. I pulled the trailblazer into the garage and after some light reading in the manual I even figured out how to pop the hood. I hung the hangy lamp from the hood, laid the blanket on the side panel and put the tool box on top of that so it wouldn't scratch the paint job...I've seen it done in the movies. Upon looking at what the manual referred to as the "engine" I realized I had no idea where the fan for the AC might be. I blame it on lousy American engineering and not my lack of knowledge. If they were going to make such a lousy fan for my AC they could of at least had the decency to clearly label it so that I could find it. So logically I tried the next step in fixing anything that is broken, I swore at it. Oh I used all the big 4 letter words I could, still nothing worked. I then wanted to kick it but realized that kicking my car might put a dent in it, so instead I kicked the lawn mower...so tomorrow I'll be picking up parts for the lawnmower.
Long, slightly boring story short, I never did figure out how to fix it. I did however learn that if I go over 70 mph that wind blows through the vents on it's own and a small amount of air conditioning comes through. Luckily it's summer and I dont' really have to worry about school zones although that school for the deaf seems to be in session...but they should be used to using their eyes as much as possible right?
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