tcepsa | Further Adventures

Okay, first off,

margoeve is awesome. Not only did she take me by the shop where we left the car last night in order to see whether they had gotten a chance to look at it, she also braved the horrible 95N traffic to get me to a Metro station.

Second, when we stopped at the car place, they had taken a look. Those of you who are a bit familiar with the inner workings of automobiles (and their associated price tags) will probably be able to appreciate the way my stomach dropped when he told me, "The sounds you heard are definitely coming from the transmission." Unfortunately they don't do transmission work other than replace them (no opening them up and mucking about inside) so he wasn't able to tell me more than that at the time--and that to replace it with a new one would probably cost about 3x as much as what I paid for the whole vehicle. He said he would call around and see if he could find a used/refurbished one, and I'll be hearing back from him soon.

Further updates as events warrant, but it's looking like this car is done for.