Regarding the title...Till Eulenspiegel is a prankster that is set in a German storybook and also to music by Richard Strauss. It occurs to me that maybe the book is missing a chapter because I certainly feel like I'm being pranked with all the funny car business that keeps happening.
If you have been keeping up with my blog at all, you will know that I've been running the gamut with my car trying to get it fixed. I've been told several times the car would be ready the next day and so far, the car is still in the shop. Sigh.
The latest development is with my ac compressor.
The ac compressor has a pulley attached to it that the serpentine belt runs around. Technically, I don't need that pulley and can get a shorter serpentine belt that skips it so I can still use my car, but the ac wouldn't work. What fun for 90 degree weather all summer long in the city....not....
But, I figured, I'll deal with it. My car is old and I don't want to spend more than I'm already spending.
Well, turns out the mechanic can't find a short belt to fit the car. He told me he tried at least 10 belts and none were correct.
So he found another ac compressor that has different bolt holes and so he can't connect it to my car, but the components are good except for the coil (the part that actually makes the ac). He phoned me to find out if I was ok with this because he told me he'd gone to so many junkyards and called so many places, and nobody has the exact ac compressor I have. Even the Alero 4 cylinder car doesn't have the same compressor.
I told him okay. Fine. I'll suffer without ac and you can mesh the two compressors together and I'll get my car back...finally.
Oh, if it were only that easy.
Apparently (from what I was told), when the car was started with the "new" ac compressor in place, the pulley on the outside that the serpentine belt goes around is wobbly. The mechanic is not okay with me driving the car around as such so he's now literally looking at ebay in the USA for this part and trying to find out how much to ship it to MX.
What an inconceivable mess.
So all told, now I'm sitting at home, still carless, and carless for the foreseeable future.
Boy it's a good thing I got a bicycle!
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