09-16-2013, 01:50 PM
BLINGMW Wrote:so by later today.... you mean next week?
I didn't think anyone was actually paying attention and I spent most of last week deathly ill.
It was a failing alternator. There was enough charge not to trip the warning light, but not enough to power the fuel pump under load. I ended up in a bit of a battle with the shop I took it to because they tacked on a few part upgrades in the quote without telling me what they were doing. They basically said "yeah, it'll be X to replace it" when in reality they weren't doing like for like. In the end, I got the upgraded part (internal regulator) for 30% off their originally quoted price. It was still too high though.
'76 911S | '14 328xi | '17 GTI | In memoriam: '08 848, '85 944
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth