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Old Mar 14, 2003 | 02:31 PM
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Yikes. That sucks man. I had some bad luck the other day too.

I was heading back to work after my classes Wednesday afternoon (work full time plus college...not fun!) Anyway, I was in the fast lane of a 6 lane highway. There is a concrete partition wall between East bound and west bound traffic, but very little shoulder. Not enough to turn around. So I'm cruising along doing 65-70 there abouts (moderate traffic), w/a car on my right at the same pace. The car in front of me suddenly swurves and what do I see but a dead dog or deer in the middle of the road. It was pretty big size. I couldn't swurve either way, so I had to run it over. Luckily I was only a mile or so from my exit and work was only 1 block from the exit.

Get to work and my temp gauge was on the rise.......I couldn't do anythign w/it till after work. I get the radiator out....the plastic "arm" that the lower radiator hose connects to is cracked.

So yesterday I ordered a new radiator from 1800radiator. Overnight for the Koyo replacement is $115. Well, it was supposed to arrive today at noon. It never came. I called and they said FedEx screwed up and put it on a ground van instead of the overnight van.

AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! So needless to say, I'm furious. But I do get my $20 back from shipping so it will only cost me 95 for the radiator. It's supposed to come tomorrow morning. It better.

Luckily for me, the weather is nice. Colorado weather can change in a heartbeat and it's been 70's all week and through the weekend. My cars sitting in my work parking lot till I can fix her tomorrow.
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