Spinning My Wheels

Reliability is Priceless

January 20, 2008 | Categories:

There's nothing like getting into your car on a cold January day, turning the key, and worrying about the crowd there's going to be at the SuperTarget, as opposed to getting into your car, turning the key, and hoping the car will start, wondering what else will go wrong today. Other than the time almost three years ago when the starter solenoid died, my 1998 Toyota Corolla has never made me worry about whether or not it will start. It has seen numerous show and ice storms and gotten me through unscathed, and I have gotten it through unscathed as well. I have never garaged it, and so it has suffered some from our hailstorms and from my teenage and young adult neighbors at my apartment complex, who generally have no respect for property not their own. I even have a scrape on my hood that was obviously a gift from someone at SuperTarget who backed up a little too far into their parking space...

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