My Toyota Corolla is really sick. What do I expect from eleven years old car? If I have my way, I will like to trade it, and take a smaller cheaper car, but my hubby loves it very much.
On Saturday, we took it to Toyota Service Center in Balakong. Well the Service Advisor said they need to check what’s wrong with the car. Well, let just said that, it has been leaking here and there.
As my hubby discussed with the Service Advisor, I went to the waiting room, watching the British version of ‘So You Think You Can Dance?’. To be frank, I never watched this show before; therefore, I was fascinated by all the moves. They are highly talented young men and women.
Not long after that, my hubby joined me, and we ordered coffee from the counter. From our table, we could see what’s going on in the workshop. After waited for more than forty-five minutes, the Service Advisor came. He said besides the steering leaking there are others that leaked too. He further said that we need to leave the car for at least 2 days for them to find out.
I asked my hubby to find how much those going to cost us. He came back, and said it going to cost us another RM7K to repair of those leaks, which RM5K was for steering only. Waa…laaaa…another big chunk of money need to spend on the car.
I told hubby that we should let go the car, but he said, “I’m gonna fix it. I’m going to make it new. Have the body paint done, and it will be good as new.”
He still refused to part with the car, and on Wednesday, the car will go back to the workshop for repair. Meanwhile, he has to figure out how he wants to go to work. He can drive the Golf if he wants to, but definitely I’m not going to part with my Grandis.
I didn’t post any blog yesterday as I was tired. Too tired until my brain was kind of dead. I can’t think. Furthermore, I was not really feeling well, and I went to bed quite early than normal.
But today, I’m back to normal. Maybe I have the much needed sleep and rest. But I had a shocked today when I sent my car for services. I thought my black beauty just needs a service to the air-condition, but I was wrong. The black beauty compressor was kaput. Guess what? The cost to replace it exclude the labour cost is RM7K.
I almost fell off my chair. The car is just over two years old, and the warranty period ended in Feb. Damn! Why does it have to kaput immediately after the warranty period? Why can’t it be in January or February?
Gah!! It’s a big cost. If we decided to repair, we would have to wait for a week or so for the part to come from Singapore. Mean while, if you want a free sauna, my car is available. Any takers?
Oh! Wait. It’s not available as the black beauty will stay at home, and my faithful Grandis will be my companion until the compressor get replaced.
By the way, when I was at the service center, I saw my next dream car. It is VW EOS, but my hubby said, "It's for the young people." Heh! My replied to him, “I’m young at heart.”
Anyway, since on Thursday, I saw five rainbows at a different location, here is ‘Somewhere over the rainbow’ by
lsrael "Iz" Kamakawiwo'ole. This version is Syafiq and MK favorites. So I’m dedicating this to them.
I saw a VW Scirrocco zooming past me this morning and I envy the driver. Well, I have been eyeing that baby but what can I say, it is too expensive for me. Maybe one day, hope not too long, I can own the baby.
Well, I'm not into fast cars but the first time I saw Scirrocco, wow I fell in love with the baby. It such a sexy looking baby. Heh, for now I have to make do with my current VW Golf. It still serves the purpose.
I have been driving for the past 20 plus years and the first time I drive was in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It was a totally new experience especially when driving in US. Everything is opposite. Left hand drive car, and the road system is also opposite of our road system in Malaysia. The first car that I bought was Dodge Omni and not bad, it served its purpose - to take me to campus and the surrounding area.
The next car, that I owned was a few months after I moved to KL. I need a car badly to go to work because there was no direct public transport from my house to my office in Taman Tun. So, I asked my late father, to look for a used car and told him that I wanted a Mazda Familia. He found one but the engine was not in good condition and after discussing with him, I settled for Ford Escort. Wow! That car was good and I used it for almost five years before I replaced it with Renault 19. By this time, I'm already married and with one kid.
This baby, Renault 19 and not my son, can really fly. I was sent to work in Malacca for a short period. My family was separated at three different states. My hubby was in KL, my son with my parents in Seremban and I was in Malacca. Since the distance from Seremban to Malacca not that far, I commuted from Seremban to Malacca almost every day even though I was given an apartment. Thanks to the car, I zoomed down the highway averaging, ahem 130-140km and reached the office by 8.30am.
I loved the car but as it start getting older, the engine start to give me problem and oh boy!, it was costly to keep this baby. So I decided to change my Renault 19 to Toyota Corolla. This car is still with us and it will be celebrating its 11 years with us this June. My hubby loves it very much even though I asked him to change to another car.
In 2003, I bought our second car, Hyundai Matrix. We need the second car because my hubby is travelling south whereas I have to travel towards KL. I missed the time where we were driving to work together. We can discussed a lot of thing during that short period. This car also served its purpose as a family car.
When I was pregnant with my fourth kids, I told hubby, we need to get a bigger car, the MPV. So after scouting around we found the right car, Mitsubishi Grandis, which can carry eight people. We traded our faithful Matrix and bought the elegant and classy Grandis. This car, officially becomes our family car until today.
In Dec 2006, when I came back from Jakarta, after being assigned there for 8 months, I decided to buy a small car. I reasoned out with hubby that it is not practical to drive a big car, when (a) I'm the only person in the car, (b) the car is petrol guzzler and (c) it is very challenging to park the car when the parking is almost full. My definition of small car was to get Kelisa or MyVi but my dear hubby has different definition. He took me to view Suzuki and VW Golf. Of course, when he brought me to see VW Golf, I told him I want that car and since he is paying, why not. I didn't feel guilty at all and this baby can fly. This baby has been with me for three years and I still haven't get tired of it. I love it very much.
Okay, enough of my rambling on my passion with cars. I hope one day that Scirocco will be mine and my hubby will changed his car to a bigger Toyota? Insyallah...Salam.
