I hate to give a bad review, but when a gadget has consistently failed, support calls didn’t improve anything, and it finally broke, I realized it was time. A couple of years ago, an advertisement for the Automatic car monitoring gadget crossed my path. I have a 1997 Jeep Wrangler, so all the fancy fuel… Continue reading It Didn’t Work for Me: Automatic
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Things That Work: My Jeep Wrangler at 300,000 Miles
I was at work, so my boy Thomas and my wife Mary Ann picked out my new car, a 97 dark green Jeep Wrangler. All I had to do was drive it off the lot. For some reason this, more than any other vehicle, felt like my car — not a hand-me-down, nor a family… Continue reading Things That Work: My Jeep Wrangler at 300,000 Miles
Still Circling in St. Louis
Shortly after my last post, we hopped in the Jeep and drove over to the waterfront where Mary Ann could get a good set of sunset pictures of the Arch and the skyline. In our rush, I hit a chug-hole too hard, pushing a marginal U-joint over into Imminent Failure Mode. I could tell something… Continue reading Still Circling in St. Louis