I am terrible with my vehicle. I know the gears and how to put it into park and drive and I know full and empty, but that is about it. I go nuts if someone changes my favorite radio stations. Changing the time on the clock is a major frustration. I have a Jeep and not only it is a passenger van but it hauls staging furniture and all my open house signs.
Last Saturday as I am getting ready to show townhouses to one of my buyers, I notice this painful sound every time I go to turn. I call my husband and hold the cell phone so he can hear it. He says maybe it is steering fluid. I say okay and go off to meet my buyer. Ryan is a stud and a real guy. I figure cars are his middle name. He listens to the sound and says it might be the steering fluid. We stop in to nave it topped off and off we go to see properties.
As I show him properties, the moaning continues. I try to chat lightly and act as if nothing is happening. The poor guy most likely thought the car was possessed. That, or the vehicle would be in pieces soon enough.
The day ends without me getting an answer to the noise. It is now Sunday so I am once again off being a Realtor with my strange noise Jeep. It is not until Tuesday that I can give up my Jeep for the day so the mystery can be solved.
Right in the Fulton neighborhood ,just steps from my neighborhood in Minneapolis, is Southwest Firestone. I leave the Jeep in their hands and wonder what kind of bill I will see at the end of the day. The guy was talking in the hundreds to the thousands depending on what they found. This puts fear in the heart of a Realtor who wonders when pay day will come. I tell him I need the car at 4:00 (to show more houses) so just get her done.
He calls at 3:00 and says it is done. I pause to hear the bill. He says they took the Jeep apart found something that needed greasing, and then they put it back together. The greasing was $10.00. The cost was the labor to take it apart and put it back together.
I can't say enough about this place. They don't just sell tires, they save lives for cheap. The Jeep has been running like a dream. The guy told me all the pot holes this year most likely caused the problem. What an honest groups of men they are. I mean I thought I was facing a bill of big bucks. They could have told me anything and I would have been forced to pay the price to get back on the road, quietly.
I feel so fortunate to have such an honest group of people working in my backyard. They also know vehicles. In this world we talk about being treated unfairly and how tough the world is. I had the opposite experience. Good going guys.
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