I noticed as I parked my car on Saturday night that my coolant light came on. Because it was so late at night, I was more concerned with getting inside and hitting the hay. On Sunday morning, I wasn't even halfway to worship services when the light came on again. Remembering it had come on the night before, I decided I would check it after worship services were over.
After services, I found that just about all of my coolant had drained out. So, I grabbed the extra bottles of coolant out of my trunk and filled it up. At this point, I knew I had a leak somewhere. Some really sweet people stayed to make sure I would be ok to drive home (which I was).
After driving about a mile, my coolant light came on again. When I got home, I decided to check my coolant to see how much I lost during the 3 mile drive from worship services to my apartment.
From the picture above, you can see that my hood opens opposite of most cars. Instead of opening away from the car, it opens towards. Well, I opened the hood and stuck my head underneath to check the coolant. Next thing I know, the hood is falling back towards my head.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to pull my head out fast enough. The hood came crashing down right along my jaw bone. Check out my lovely Beamer Bruise below...
So, Beamer got towed this morning to the shop where they discovered my heater hose blew. The same heater hose that was fine a week ago. Oh the life of owning a car! Luckily, it can be fixed, and Beamer *should* be back to his normal self tomorrow afternoon!
As for me, I've been walking to where I need to get (i.e. work). Honestly, I don't really have anything to complain about. Yes, it is cold outside, but I have a lovely new scarf, courtesy of my brother's girlfriend, that keeps me quite warm! The best part...I get a break from scraping ice off of my car in the mornings! :)
Despite the fact that Beamer bruised me, I think I'll still keep him! ;)
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