On the Road Again

Well, I bought a new-to-me recycled car here in the Bay Area.

The scrap man was going to give this fellow $500 for it, but he'd rather have it go to a good home.

Ol' girl needs a few things before we get on the road to PDX.

We did have Fernando come out and put a new windshield in, and Paul hooked us up with some new tires, too.

I changed the oil -- didn't realize synthetic was SO expensive. The AAA discount at Napa's helped, I think it was 10 or 15%.

Luckily the previous owner left a new windshield gasket (~$50), a new oil filter (~$8), and a couple of glow plugs (~$20-30). That and an assortment of specialty wrenches, which probably cost a pretty penny. A shop manual (Haynes, but still) and a Mercedes Benz A/C and climate control systems manual.  In fact, I'll bet I could just sell the excess parts and so forth and recoup my money!

Things left to do:

• Fix the water leak in the thermocoupler valve
• Put in a new speedo cable
• Fix the dash lights
• Plug the rear speakers back in
• Get rear headrests?
• Get sidemarkers?
• Get one more hubcap?