Saturday, 7 January 2017

Air Conditioning



We have been having trouble with the air conditioning in the car for about a year and a half.  We have taken it in a number of times and the garage is never able to fix it.  Barb was worried that we wouldn't be able to cope with no air conditioning for the whole time we are in Florida.  So she asked around about where her pickle ball friends brought their cars to get repaired.  Barb was told to go a place called Vaugn's Quality Autos.  She was expecting to drop off her car and pick it up later.  So she was thinking of borrowing her friend's car for a few hours.  The night before she was going to bring in her car we drove by the place and it looked like a dump with cars all over the place in various states of assembly.  The gate was locked and the sign for the place was all rusted.  Barb found out that she couldn't make an appointment.  She just had to bring in her car and wait until they fixed it.  So she brought her car in in the morning and as she drove in she was met by the owner.  He said they were kind of busy right now but she should bring her car back in the afternoon.  So she came back at 2:30 in the afternoon and the owner got one of his guys to look at the car and he said it just needed a part and they would have the part delivered in a few minutes and she could wait for it.  Barb was surprised that the garage had no hoists and that there were about 13 guys working on cars all over the dirt parking lot.  Barb waited in a dusty waiting room with a bunch of other people.  They fixed her car in a few minutes and only charged her $35.  Barb asked the owner how he can work without any hoists.  He said that if someone's car needs a hoist, he just sends them somewhere else.  However, since he doesn't use hoists his guys can work on all those cars at the same time.  Now the air conditioning works great.

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