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Old 08-28-2015, 10:45 AM   #7
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Fix it. Fast before winter.
Back in the early 90s I had an 81 Mazda GLC. Once on the coldest day of the winter I was taking my sister in law and her two small children someplace and I stopped at a red light. When I stopped there was a light thud and a weird screech. I though a brake had locked up. A cop turning the corner looked at me, hit his lights and whipped around behind me. He walked up and said "You know you aren't going anyplace right?". I got out of the car and sure enough one wheel was laying horizontal on the road and fluids are pissing out on the road. Was so bad a day that it took a wrecker 3 hours to get there (the cop sat behind me the whole time because it was a blind spot at the bottom of a hill). Cost me $80 for a tow and a $200 clean up fee from the city for the fluid spill. That was half a week's pay then. All I could think of was that there had been zero indication it was going to go and if it had happened at any speed the situation could have been much worse.
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