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What a Sunday

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Kats66Pny

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Spent most of the day messing with husbands Lexus. Went to the parts store, bought a new master cylinder for it. Replaced the old with the new one. Started bleeding the brakes, and son of a.... brake fluid gushed out of the right front hose. :po Lines were checked first before replacing the MC. It didn't start gushing fluid until the brakes started getting stiffer on the pedal and pressure on the hose. So, had to run back to the parts store and buy a new hose.

Wouldn't you know it, the Lexus has those locking lug nuts and they are stripped. Can't get the tire off for easy access to replace the hose. Ended up just doing it with the tire still on. Then there was this stupid clip husband couldn't get off. I heard a few, ok LOTS, of cursing. 6 hours later, the old hose replaced, brakes bled, annoying red brake light is no longer on. Success. Sort of. After messing with that, the check engine light comes on.

For several days now, the car has had trouble starting. Sounds like the battery but we had the battery tested, as well as starter & alternator.. all showed working fine. If you leave the car sitting for long periods of time, it takes it a while to start. Some times requiring a jump to get it going. Who knows whats wrong with it beside the fact its a Lexus.

To top the Sunday off.... the A/C in the house quit working again. It did it last week, and we replaced a blown fuse. By the time we got finished messing with the Lexus, we realized Lowes was already closed so now we are with no A/C in the house tonight. :cry

Ok rant off. I feel better. Hot and sweaty, but better.
 
Sunday is almost over. Hopefully *crossing fingers* tomorrow will be a much better day and that 70 Grande turns out to be a good buy.

Its a 1992 Lexus LS400.
 
Kat, that sucks. I'm right there with you. We've been trucking along almost all year with nothing really significant going on. Then BAM! We've been smacked left and right, literally you'll see, and we are still trying to figure out what is going on.

2 months ago Casey needed tires on her Lexus. We bought them a Sam's club for the price and lifetime rotation and balance. Took the RX back 3 times to get the tires balanced and still had a bad shimmy in the steering wheel. Finally took it to another shop to get the tires balanced with a force balance machine which fixed it, smooth as glass now. Unfortunately it still has a terrible a/c belt squeal and needs the timing belt changed. I bought the parts but haven't had the time to tear it down. While-I'm-at-it set in and I got all the preventative stuff, all belts, hoses, tensioners, and water pump. Lexus parts aren't really any cheaper at Autozone than they are from Lexus online (mylexparts.com - since you have one too). Actually, I think I have had the time, but can't stand the thought of doing it right now with the heat wave we have. And having the work done somewhere else isn't an option right now.

Right around that time my 6 year old spills a drink on my wife's macbook pro. Turns out that Applecare doesn't cover liquid damage. The main board is messed up, the computer works but battery won't charge. Repair is $1200. A new macbook pro is $1800. We chose neither and bought a battery charger from Amazon for $60, she can suck it up for a few months.

About 6 weeks ago we loaned out our motorhome to some friends for a 2 week vacation to Missouri. Before they took it we had it inspected, generator serviced, and looked over top to bottom. They made it to West Virginia and the accessory belt blew. They got towed off the highway. A buddy's dad lives in the town they broke down in and replaced the belt for them the next morning. Didn't realize it, but accessory belt cut an a/c line when it broke, so no cab a/c. 3 hours later a tire tread separated. They got towed again and bought a new tire. Tires were less than 3 years old but were not driven on much, maybe 1-2000 miles tops. The just serviced generator goes out, so no house a/c. They are now in Kentucky driving with windows down. Another tire tread separates. I had given them my 3 ton floor jack to take with, floor jack hydraulics go out and won't lift the rear axle to change the tire. Another tow truck call. They finally get to his dad's in Missouri. I told them to have all 6 tires replaced (at this point didn't trust them, suspect a bad lot, and the spare is the new tire they bought earlier), they got the generator serviced (again), and the front brakes (mandatory inspection item in VA) were down to the metal and needed replaced. @#$% that was an expensive trip (I paid for all repairs).

3 weeks ago an email comes out to all recipients at work that the blue Civic parked in the second row out back just got hit. It was mine. Front bumper ripped off and light broken. Guy fessed up and paid for it, and work is done. Still hugely inconvenient.

I take the RV to get the a/c line fixed, but they didn't know which line it was so they had to charge the system first to find the leak. Then since the system was opened up we needed a new filter/drier (3 times as expensive as the hose that was cut). I am so pissed about how expensive that was that I don't want to think about it.

Now here's the tough one. 2 weeks ago my two boys are playing out front when they were supposed to be getting ready for bed. I'm under the fastback, Casey is making us dinner. Kids go out front with a neighbor kid to play golf. Noah (4) goes first. Chad (6) goes next, but Noah wants to watch and is standing in the backswing area. He takes a hit in the left cheek from a golf club. Emergency room visit and 2 CT scans with a screaming bloody faced 4 year old tell us no brain or eye damage, but two broken bones in the nose, and 2 fractures in his cheek. Surgery a week ago with a plastic surgeon to fix his nose and reinforce the fracture in his cheek. He is now jumping around so much we are withholding pain medicine to try to settle him down. Most kids go to sleep with codeine, it acts like a stimulant to Noah.

Day after Noah's surgery I'm home with Noah and somehow manage to throw out my back.

The next day, while I'm home with Noah and barely able to move, Casey is taking Chad to montessori and while she is pulling in to park, another lady backs out not looking and crush's the front passenger side door of the Lexus. That still needs to be fixed, at least they are paying for it.

Since Noah is out of school Casey took him to work with her, and took some movies that he could watch on the macbook. After two separate incidents, the mouse button on the macbook is ripped off and Noah apparently dropped it on the floor and busted up the case. So the new macbook pro is in the works sooner rather than later (Casey does video editing for work).

I don't know what the $%^& is going on, but this sucks. The past two months are a blur and we're thinking about building an underground bomb shelter in the back yard and crawling into it for a couple months. At this rate we're not sure what's coming up next.
 
I'm not sure how I forgot this. Back in April my 7 year old dog died. Maybe the spring wasn't as good as I thought it was.
 
Poor little Noah. :sad Hope he's doing better.

I guess that whole thing about bad things happening in 3's isn't true. Maybe its a sign of the so-called incoming 2012 apocalypse.
 
Holy cow Sam, I'm not even gonna mention any of my troubles, You may have gotten enough bad luck for the whole board.....Hope Noah is doing better.
 
Kat, sounds like the Lexus has some sort of parasitic drain. Leave it sitting for long enough and it will drain out the battery. A lot of luxury vehicles are prone to things like that due to all of the power accessories they run. Inevitably something shorts out.
 
"KBMWRS" said:
Dang after you two and your travails I'm not even gonna mention my hangnail. :vic
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Yeah, I was going to mention that Saturday evening while grilling some Drunken Chicken the LP gas bottle ran dry..... and then the CO2 bottle on the kegerator died minutes later, but after reading Sam's (and others) bad luck I'm just going to STFU.
 
"daveSanborn" said:
Yeah, I was going to mention that Saturday evening while grilling some Drunken Chicken the LP gas bottle ran dry..... and then the CO2 bottle on the kegerator died minutes later, but after reading Sam's (and others) bad luck I'm just going to STFU.
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Well, how did you get the beer out?
 
"Fast68back" said:
Well, how did you get the beer out?
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Pulled the keg out of the kegerator and had to use the old fashioned hand-pump. I'd have cut a hole in the side of the keg and poured it out if'n I'd had to.
 
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