the car may make it home
Jun. 24th, 2024 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinabut not for lack of complications...
My friend Åsa had picked it up for me on Tuesday last week, and it sat in her parking area, in a suburb south of Stockholm till today, when Alexander, the husband of a friend of ours (but I have never met the husband--he doesn't come to SCA events these days) was able to pick it up, with the plan to drive it up to his home in Umeå, where we can fetch it tomorrow, so that we can take it to Broken Arrow on Wednesday.
However, today Keldor gets a call from Alexander--the car has an empty fuel tank, and the red light for brake oil is glowing. I check in with Åsa, both were fine when she brought it home last week, so it looks like someone stole the fuel from the car as it sat there (I have heard that is a thing in Stockholm). What happened to the break fluid, we don't know. Can people steal that too? Is it a sign of a problem? Did the service people forget to check the brake fluid levels after replacing the wheel and everything that goes with it? He managed to get the car to the nearest station, where he filled both up, and last I heard he was going to try to drive north. I hope he makes it!
My friend Åsa had picked it up for me on Tuesday last week, and it sat in her parking area, in a suburb south of Stockholm till today, when Alexander, the husband of a friend of ours (but I have never met the husband--he doesn't come to SCA events these days) was able to pick it up, with the plan to drive it up to his home in Umeå, where we can fetch it tomorrow, so that we can take it to Broken Arrow on Wednesday.
However, today Keldor gets a call from Alexander--the car has an empty fuel tank, and the red light for brake oil is glowing. I check in with Åsa, both were fine when she brought it home last week, so it looks like someone stole the fuel from the car as it sat there (I have heard that is a thing in Stockholm). What happened to the break fluid, we don't know. Can people steal that too? Is it a sign of a problem? Did the service people forget to check the brake fluid levels after replacing the wheel and everything that goes with it? He managed to get the car to the nearest station, where he filled both up, and last I heard he was going to try to drive north. I hope he makes it!