CROOZ1N
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What a crappy way to start my vacation-FOLLOW UP!!
:W2 pm On a Saturday,236 miles from home 35 miles to the beach and the car starts sounding as though its dragging something. I check all the guages ...OK we pull over shut it down and pop the hood. Oil checked OK . Trans fluid OK PS .. Ok no fluids leaking underneath. Start her back up and noise is still there but now its kinda coming and going. I try locating it and see the belt kinda jumping . I then notice the pully on the alternator is jumping up and down. I pull into the Food lion across the street and ask a guy about an Advance or NAPA. Advance is 4 miles down. Start the Vette up and it goes from one set of parking lines to the next and dies. It wont even start. !! The bearing locked slap up in the thing. (Or at least I hope thats what it is.)
So the guy I talked to actually took me to the Advance. No part -- None in any of the OPEN stores. NAPA closed of course. Chevy dealer closed of course. So The guy behind the counter said he can get me one tomorrow. I said ok get it here. Now what do i do about the vette in Tabor city NC? Well I didnt want to leave it so the guy from advance called another guy who came up from Conway with his rollback and took it to my condo at N.Myrtle for 140 bucks Cheap i think...
So here I sit hopefully I'll get it fixed tommorow or at least fixed enuff to get me back home next week.
Everyone I came in contact with during this was super nice. The people at the Advance, the guy in the parking lot ,the lady in the Foodlion. Even people that we talked with while waiting on the rollback.
Thankfully we had some friends 30 minutes behind us that we are sharing the condo with. They were able to rearange the contents of the 2 cars to get my wife in with them while I road with the Tow driver. Also super nice.
So hopefully I'll follow up tomorrow with some better news.
Hey it aint all bad I am at the beach!!:L
:W2 pm On a Saturday,236 miles from home 35 miles to the beach and the car starts sounding as though its dragging something. I check all the guages ...OK we pull over shut it down and pop the hood. Oil checked OK . Trans fluid OK PS .. Ok no fluids leaking underneath. Start her back up and noise is still there but now its kinda coming and going. I try locating it and see the belt kinda jumping . I then notice the pully on the alternator is jumping up and down. I pull into the Food lion across the street and ask a guy about an Advance or NAPA. Advance is 4 miles down. Start the Vette up and it goes from one set of parking lines to the next and dies. It wont even start. !! The bearing locked slap up in the thing. (Or at least I hope thats what it is.)
So the guy I talked to actually took me to the Advance. No part -- None in any of the OPEN stores. NAPA closed of course. Chevy dealer closed of course. So The guy behind the counter said he can get me one tomorrow. I said ok get it here. Now what do i do about the vette in Tabor city NC? Well I didnt want to leave it so the guy from advance called another guy who came up from Conway with his rollback and took it to my condo at N.Myrtle for 140 bucks Cheap i think...
So here I sit hopefully I'll get it fixed tommorow or at least fixed enuff to get me back home next week.
Everyone I came in contact with during this was super nice. The people at the Advance, the guy in the parking lot ,the lady in the Foodlion. Even people that we talked with while waiting on the rollback.
Thankfully we had some friends 30 minutes behind us that we are sharing the condo with. They were able to rearange the contents of the 2 cars to get my wife in with them while I road with the Tow driver. Also super nice.
So hopefully I'll follow up tomorrow with some better news.
Hey it aint all bad I am at the beach!!:L