Halfway to 1,000 Miles... We Wait
Jul. 10th, 2021 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerAt lunch in Encinitas, California - 1pm
We completed the first "We're Gonna Be (500 Miles)" this morning. Our drive to SJC airport and flight to SAN were uneventful, as was our ride from San Diego up to Encinitas around noon. We arrived at the car dealership to pick up our new car and complete the paperwork. If things went smoothly we could have been out in less than an hour and beginning our drive home. But that's where things stopped going smoothly.
Actually it's not the paperwork that's messed up. That's where I thought all the risk was. No, it's the car itself. When they were prepping it this morning it started flagging a fault code for the tail light. Techs tried replacing the bulb first but that wasn't enough; the whole tail light assembly needs replacing. They were still waiting on the part when we arrived.
The salesguy suggested we could camp out at the dealership for an hour or so with free coffee and wifi. We countered that we could just walk out for lunch (there are a dozen restaurants within 0.5km) and come back later... hopefully to find the problem fixed.
Oh, and there could still be problems with the paperwork. Sometimes you have to clear one problem before you can even see the next one. 😅
We completed the first "We're Gonna Be (500 Miles)" this morning. Our drive to SJC airport and flight to SAN were uneventful, as was our ride from San Diego up to Encinitas around noon. We arrived at the car dealership to pick up our new car and complete the paperwork. If things went smoothly we could have been out in less than an hour and beginning our drive home. But that's where things stopped going smoothly.
Actually it's not the paperwork that's messed up. That's where I thought all the risk was. No, it's the car itself. When they were prepping it this morning it started flagging a fault code for the tail light. Techs tried replacing the bulb first but that wasn't enough; the whole tail light assembly needs replacing. They were still waiting on the part when we arrived.
The salesguy suggested we could camp out at the dealership for an hour or so with free coffee and wifi. We countered that we could just walk out for lunch (there are a dozen restaurants within 0.5km) and come back later... hopefully to find the problem fixed.
Oh, and there could still be problems with the paperwork. Sometimes you have to clear one problem before you can even see the next one. 😅
