I seem to be on a bit of a roll lately, complaining about companies and the workarounds and fixes needed to compensate for their marginal designs, so let’s keep it going for one more day. I brought my car into the dealership on Wednesday for an oil change and tire rotation (I had a coupon), and while I was waiting for the work to be completed, the technician came out and informed me that a mouse had built a large nest in the blower and cabin filter assembly. This was a surprise to me, since I hadn’t heard any of the rattling you usually hear when debris gets into the system, and my rather sensitive nose hadn’t detected any bad …
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Throughout the winter my wife’s Subaru Forester, kept having battery problems. One day it would start, a few days later it wouldn’t. I trickle charged it a number of times (a really fun task when the temperature outside is five degrees) to get it up and running again but it didn’t seem to help, a few days would pass and I’d have to go through the whole process again. The battery was pretty new, I had just bought it last year, but I assumed it was just a defective battery so I pulled it out one morning and took it to Advance Auto Parts to get it charged and tested. They called back in the afternoon and told me it …
