Wouldn't you know it... the day Casey officially takes the car, it decides to revolt. Case finally got home and needed to change the oil and filter in the car. He got everything done and needed to drive the car around after the oil change, so he took a movie back to Blockbuster (very close to our house). He barely made it down the street before the oil light came on again. Put more oil in. Made it back home, but the oil light still kept coming on. When he got it here, it was almost bone dry, and he had put 7-8 quarts of oil in the thing to begin with... so we took the RAV4 to Walmart to get more oil. Driving away from our house, we see that there is a line of oil from our driveway all the way out to Route 59 (basically the edge of our Subdivision.) We had to laugh a bit because you can see the trail Casey took on his way to drop the movie off, and when he ran out of oil the first time the light came on. Anyway, we grab more oil and bring it back to the house. Case had to put more in the car just to see where the damn thing was leaking. I realize it's necessary, but what a waste of money and oil! Apparently there is some kind of crack in the oil filter housing. (These are his words, not mine... I have no clue about this stuff, which is a good reason for the VW being a piece of s....)
Looks like we're going to have the car towed somewhere tomorrow morning. I'm glad we invested in AAA. And a new, more reliable vehicle. I really hope our luck changes tomorrow... the sad reality is that if the car costs too much to get fixed, we may have to scrap it and look for a new one. I honestly don't even want to think about having to get 2 new vehicles (*new to us, at least) in one week. Everything happens for a reason, right?
Grrrr....
-Ash
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