Give Me Liberty.....

So I haven't posted in a bit. Life has been busy. Tonight I think I will share another story in my car saga. A few weeks ago I started to detect a strange grinding noise from my back tires whenever I applied the break. I knew that my breaks were pretty jacked up. So I took it in for some work and got a loaner car for several days. While they were doing this, I also had them look at a few more problems I have been having lately. The steering wheel was a bit loose and my check engine light comes and goes. All my problems were fixed except the light and I received the car back and went on my merry way.

Two days later I received notice that my tags were getting ready to expire and that I needed to visit the inspection lanes soon to get them renewed. That's not a big deal, so I read their notice and noticed that it listed a frequently asked questions section. It must have been a slow news day because I read it. What did I see? Well I saw that my car was destined to fail when I went to visit the DMV. The problem? The check engine light. If it is on, they will fail the car. This caused me some issues. What to do?

When I took the car in, they told me that the light was in relation to a minor transmission problem. It slipped occasionally and I was advised by the service writer that it really wasn't worth fixing until the trans really started to have problems. I was stuck between a rock and the DMV. The car was a 97 Olds and wasn't really worth me dropping at least $1000 to have a new transmission put into it. The solution was that the car needed to go, and so me and my friend Aaron went shopping on Thursday night and I bought a new (used) vehicle. So without any further delay........Here is my new Jeep Liberty.






Pictures courtesy of Abigail Tokarski. She is an 8 year old budding photog and was more than willing to take these pics for me. Some day she'll be a great photographic artist I think.