Car Problems
February 22, 2006 Posted by mitch | accord | 0 Comments
What a week... Elissa's parents arrived from New York monday for a visit, and all the issues involving planes aside (its an even longer story and very painful). Because of these various flight issues, we had to pick them up from the Las Vegas airport. Elissa's Accord has been making a weird sound for the last couple months, but because its been doing it for a couple months, I haven't taken the time to get it fixed. Which is a hard thing to do most of the time for us, we depend on our cars to get us everywhere we need to... Anyway, on the way down to Vegas, the noice got progressively worse... I was just hoping it would make it untill we got home and since Elissa has the week off we could take it in to be looked at. Well... It didn't make it.. we found out that it was the tensioner pulley (which was what I was thinking... didn't know you could just replace the pully wheel tho... and not the whole assembly I was dreading that thought...). Anyway the pulley siezed 20 miles south or so of Cedar City. We made it there, but it was 4am.  No parts store was open, nor would one open untill 7am. We waited around in the car and talked for 2 hours untill 6am when we went to get breakfast and warm up. (My brother said he saw on the news that it had dropped to 7 degrees that night in Cedar City...) We were frozen. After breakfast, we walked back to the car which was in the parking lot of the Napa parts store. Luckily my father-in-law is a mechanic and knew how to get it changed. Hes never worked on Honda's before so it was still a learning experience tho :) It took us about an hour and a half to get the pulley and belt replaced(probably would have taken me atleast 3 hours to do the same thing without his help), and we were then back on the road. Fun fun. Great way for them to finish off their trip to Utah... :)
