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by the man-in-plastic – j. kiely jr., photographer, pilot, diver and sometimes nerd

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Parts Honestly

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Already mentioned this on Facebook, but events of the last few hours have not dulled my annoyance at all.
Backing up a few days, Friday morning my now vintage Jeep decided it didn’t want to start. As I’ve been having intermittent starting issues here and there this was not a huge surprise.
Finally having the time to deal with it until Saturday morning I diagnosed the most likely cause, starter solenoid, and began the hunt for the $40 part.
No local parts store was left unchecked.
In the end nobody had it. It would have to be ordered and prepaid to boot. And I would have to come to the store to make payment. Great.
Anyway the guy at the local NAPA store was more helpful. He informed me that if I called back first thing Monday morning that the part could be loaded on the warehouse shuttle and I could likely pick it up Monday afternoon.
Nope, didn’t work that way.
I called this morning at 10-past-9. Different voice informed me that he didn’t have the part, but I could order it and pay over the phone.
This I did.
With any luck I can throw the Jeep back together before the rain and snow invades us Tuesday.
Fingers crossed!

Written by j.

February 15th, 2010 at 9:53 am