When Mike got into the car on Saturday to go to work, it freaked out on him. First it didn't want to start and then when he finally got it going, he couldn't get any power from it and it began jerking around like crazy. He brought it back home and got a ride to work from our home teacher, and we called his dad to come out and test the battery for us, hoping that was the problem. Unfortunately, it wasn't. My father-in-law played with the car a bit, and said he thought it was the fuel, either the filter, water in the fuel, or possibly the pump (ouch!).
We drove the car to Jiffy Lube, which is just around the corner, to test the fuel filter possibility. We were told that our car doesn't have an external fuel filter, that if it was the fuel pump that the car wouldn't work at all, and that they thought it was a clogged catalytic converter. They also warned us that if we kept driving it, we could damage it more. So we brought it back home and parked it, and borrowed Mike's sister's car to go to church the next day.
This morning we called the tow company that our insurance pays for ($7 a year, and sooooo worth it!) and had them tow our car to the car repair place we use. It was kinda cool how everything worked. The tow company told us it would take 45 minutes to get here (10 minutes), the car place told us first that they might not be able to finish our car today, and then, after they diagnosed the problem, they told us the repairs would take a couple of hours and it was done in less an hour. Nice!
The bad thing is that the problem was more serious than we thought. Our car is a four cylinder, and it was running on two. Something to do with bad coil towers. It cost $533 to fix. Ouch!
Well, at least we got our car back quickly.
Horses have to be fed and vet bills are expensive. Also they poop.
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