Van on Aptly Named Hill
You may think I'm jesting but I am not! There has been no verdict in the on going trouble with our minivan. What seems clear is that the machine is flooding and it is not the computer. The panel continues to be "dead" yet since this was the case all winter long the mechanics believe the two problems are unrelated.
Jim's mechanic, Steve, seems to believe that a wiring problem may just be "it" and that it's simply not worth an expensive fix. Perry, our regular mechanic, who was amazingly kind enough to drive out with me to Forteau and use his Plymouth Voyager '96 computer as a test in mine (which proved it wasn't the $839.00 computer that we almost bought blind in desperation), said that it is fixable but it will take time... something we don't have as we are due to leave on Sunday.
The facts are clear this is not only a dangerous machine with no odometer or fuel gauge, it doesn't want to go anywhere, it just keeps stalling and flooding. The minivan may be beyond help, or it may follow us on the ferry a month from now: who knows?
What we ask is for prayers that we make a wise decision on how to proceed in this very stressful time only exacerbated by this minivan.
2 Comments:
Good luck with your journey East. I know where you are coming from with Van problems. We have a 2002 Montana and we have put in the last 10 months a new condensor, transmisson and wheel bearings. Now the gas gauge is gone. Safe trip to you and your family and welcome to Carleton County.
It seems to have died today and so we leave it here. In many ways the Lord answered the prayers... "you're not going anywhere with this machine... you're safer without it." I'll blog this soon, but really it has been a sicking day. Sherry did in fact get ill over the loss of having Andrew there when we arrive. Andrew (13) flys out tomorrow to his grandparents in Montreal. BTW Forteau is 90km away, I've been doing this twice a day.
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