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Loaner car

I picked up a loaner car yesterday from the dealer when I dropped off my regular car.  I have to get the instrument panel replaced since it's no longer telling me the mileage... it's speaking words to me.  Or at least weird symbols and things.

I'd like to get at least 100k out of my car as far as miles go.  I think that should be do-able.  Then maybe after 100k miles I will consider looking at buying a new car.  I'm trying to start saving now for a new one.

In addition to the problem with the instrument panel I also am having the wiper blade motor replaced on the drivers side because it's making noises of the cranking or grinding kind when I turn them on!

Since it's not a service that can be done quickly they allowed me to have a loaner-mobile.  It's called the "stallion".  Ha... although there isn't anything super special about it.  It's just a regular four door sedan.  It's nice though to drive something different.  I'm guessing it's a 2010 or something like that.  It definitely has more power and pep than my car.  Also everything is automatic and automated... even the headlights come on and off by themselves!  I'm not used to such a nice ride!

To me having all that automated stuff means more things to repair when they start to fail.  So I'll stick with my basic rolly polly windows, my manual transmission and turning the lights on and off manually.

So yea hopefully it will be done soon.  They actually have to pull the instrument odometer thing out and send it away back to detroit or wherever the Chevy headquarters are.  Then they transfer the information from the broken one... to a new one.  It's all top secret and done in some underground lab or something like that.

So right now the car is sitting without a display or instrument panel.  Hopefully after this I won't have to fix that much as far as big repairs go.  I've spent a lot this year in car repairs so I've decided to scale back my driving and just stay in because of it.  I'm also considering moving across the street from work when my lease is up so that I won't have to put any miles on my car commuting to and from work.  All I can say is cars are very expensive to maintain!