tomorrow the car gets worked on
Nov. 8th, 2023 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareina Weeks ago the car didn't pass inspection because of brakes wearing out in back, and a "spindelled" (literally spider-arm, but I have no idea if that is what it is called in English) needing help in front. Keldor tried to deal with the breaks himself, but failed to get them off one evening because he didn't have the correct, special tool for that brand car, and then again some time later, after he borrowed the correct special tool for that brand car, still couldn't get them off. At which point we booked time at a service station, told them we already had the breaks, but we still need the spindelled, and tomorrow was the earliest we could be seen (which meant we went back to the inspection place and said "we tried, now we have an appointment", so they re-inspected it to give us a new deadline by which to have it done.
We called two different workshops--one in town (35 minutes north of here, but if we went there he could drive in on his way to work, and have a colleague pick him up there and take him to work), and one 20 minutes south. The one to the south gave an estimate during the first call and booked us right away, the other said they would get back to us with an estimate, and then never did. You can guess who got our business.
However, they don't open tomorrow till 07:00 , and Keldor is normally at work by 06:30, so there is no point in waiting till they open to drop the car off, since he wouldn't make it to work till around 8:00 at that point. So I called, and they have a place where one can just drop the keys into a thingie where they are out of reach. Therefore this morning I rode in with Keldor to work, and then took the car home again directly, and after work he took the company car home and we both drove down to the workshop, left the car, and came home in his work car.
He was pretty certain he knew were we were going, having once picked up his brother from a workshop in Ånäset, and he didn't think there would be more than one workshop in a town that small. But I had no idea, so I had google maps navigating as I drove. As we approached the right area Google said to take the next left, and then immediately turn right. We were talking on the phone, so I relayed the info, and he was confused, as he thought we should go past that intersection and then turn left into the parking lot. However, he guessed that perhaps we weren't going to where he thought we were, so we listened to Google.
It turns out that it wanted us to take a small road through forest and the occasional house, then take a very, very sharp right onto a small dirt road, which has been driven on a couple of times since it snowed a couple of weeks ago, but most of the snow is still 20 cm thick, and it has been raining all day on top of the snow. Nope. Not going to risk it, we would get stuck. (The rest of the roads in this area are bare, wet pavement, having been ploughed after snowfall a couple of weeks ago, and temperatures above freezing the last few days having melted what was left, it was only that un-ploughed road which has any snow at all.)
But when we drove past the turn GoogleMaps rerouted, and said to keep going forward, and then take a right back onto the highway. So we did. Then it suggested we drive forward, past our destination, take the turn we took before, and then that small un-ploughed road back to the destination, which is right on the highway.
I have no idea why it didn't want us to just turn into the driveway of the business, which opens on the highway, but the map was totally convinced it wasn't an option. We ignored it, and turned in to the driveway. It worked beautifully. Keldor looked at the fence around the building and said that he was glad we rejected the un-ploughed road, as we would have wound up on the wrong side of that. I looked, and pointed out that no, the tiny road really does come up to the parking lot--if we had been willing to take the road, and we didn't get stuck in the slush, it would have worked. I am so glad we didn't try it. I hope that the map noticed that we just turned in where we did, and made a note of it that it is possible.
We called two different workshops--one in town (35 minutes north of here, but if we went there he could drive in on his way to work, and have a colleague pick him up there and take him to work), and one 20 minutes south. The one to the south gave an estimate during the first call and booked us right away, the other said they would get back to us with an estimate, and then never did. You can guess who got our business.
However, they don't open tomorrow till 07:00 , and Keldor is normally at work by 06:30, so there is no point in waiting till they open to drop the car off, since he wouldn't make it to work till around 8:00 at that point. So I called, and they have a place where one can just drop the keys into a thingie where they are out of reach. Therefore this morning I rode in with Keldor to work, and then took the car home again directly, and after work he took the company car home and we both drove down to the workshop, left the car, and came home in his work car.
He was pretty certain he knew were we were going, having once picked up his brother from a workshop in Ånäset, and he didn't think there would be more than one workshop in a town that small. But I had no idea, so I had google maps navigating as I drove. As we approached the right area Google said to take the next left, and then immediately turn right. We were talking on the phone, so I relayed the info, and he was confused, as he thought we should go past that intersection and then turn left into the parking lot. However, he guessed that perhaps we weren't going to where he thought we were, so we listened to Google.
It turns out that it wanted us to take a small road through forest and the occasional house, then take a very, very sharp right onto a small dirt road, which has been driven on a couple of times since it snowed a couple of weeks ago, but most of the snow is still 20 cm thick, and it has been raining all day on top of the snow. Nope. Not going to risk it, we would get stuck. (The rest of the roads in this area are bare, wet pavement, having been ploughed after snowfall a couple of weeks ago, and temperatures above freezing the last few days having melted what was left, it was only that un-ploughed road which has any snow at all.)
But when we drove past the turn GoogleMaps rerouted, and said to keep going forward, and then take a right back onto the highway. So we did. Then it suggested we drive forward, past our destination, take the turn we took before, and then that small un-ploughed road back to the destination, which is right on the highway.
I have no idea why it didn't want us to just turn into the driveway of the business, which opens on the highway, but the map was totally convinced it wasn't an option. We ignored it, and turned in to the driveway. It worked beautifully. Keldor looked at the fence around the building and said that he was glad we rejected the un-ploughed road, as we would have wound up on the wrong side of that. I looked, and pointed out that no, the tiny road really does come up to the parking lot--if we had been willing to take the road, and we didn't get stuck in the slush, it would have worked. I am so glad we didn't try it. I hope that the map noticed that we just turned in where we did, and made a note of it that it is possible.