Friday, May 23, 2008

Abram the Magnificent!!

It's May and while that means many things to me, usually the most pressing is that I have to get my car registered...again. Since I have a car that is getting older and there always seems to be something wrong with it this is not a joyous time for me. This year in particular I already knew that there were problems that I would have to fix: My faulty headlight, my missing turn signal, and the brakes (or so I thought). In the beginning I thought that the brakes were the big deal, since the last time that I got my car registered in Kaysville they told me that my brakes "barely passed." So I had planned on going to get them fixed.

It all started when Abram asked me in passing how my car was doing. I, of course. mentioned that i needed to go get it tested and registered so that meant that I need to probably get my brakes fixed. For those of you who know Abram you know that he is far too nice for his own good and he is ALWAYS offering help to any and everyone that could possibly need it. He's truly wonderful like that. I try to avoid taking advantage of him as often as i can, but when it comes to cars it's a little hard since he's such a genius at fixing them.

So Abram came over and helped me to install my left turn signal, it was a little tricky because the place where the bolt to hold it in would go was broken off, but no worries we used Christmas ornament hooks to wire them into place. I then went to get my car inspected to see if the brakes really needed to be fixed which they didn't. I still failed though because my headlight only worked when it was on bright, and the new turn signal only worked when the other lights weren't on. Awesome. I called Abram after I left and discovered that he was already at the junk yard! He said that he would pick up a connector for my head light, and come back over to install it and see about the turn signal.


So he came back, rewired and thus fixed my headlight, something the Honda dealership wanted to charge me $150 to fix. We then tried to figure out the turn signal. After trying a few things, Abram concluded that the connector could be bad, so we switched it out with one of my old ones and it worked!! Yeah!!! So I now everything on my car works, and it feels so good! It's been at least a year or more since I haven't had problems with the lights. So thank you Abram for being wonderful and helpful and MAGNIFICENT!!

4 comments:

Paula said...

3 Cheers for Abram and his car mechanic skills! He is a good egg. Glad your little Honda is operational and good to go for a another year (we hope). Did you get permission to publish that photo? Ha Ha. I like the one of you, too, feet and all.

Airie said...

He'll be so embarassed! I'll for sure show him though. Kudos on picking one of the best pics of him ever!!! :)

briton said...

guess who I ran into at ultimate frisbee on Wed. A the M! indeed. It was quite a shocker. I knew he was coming up to OR for his "externship" (ex- in- what's going on), but wasn't ready to see him at ultimate. he's got a mean leftie toss...

briton said...

maybe I can get him to look at the Bogus while he's up here, or assess the clutch on the Ford...