Tallahassee Capital Eurocar – The Saga of Suck – Part 1

Brace yourselves boys and girls, this one is a dozy.

It all started back on a Sunday afternoon in late August…the 19th to be exact. My beautiful bride went to church in her 2001 VW Beetle. After church she went to start her car and it would not start. We decided to abandon the car in favor of AAA towing it to our mechanic the next day. AAA came out and instead of towing it, they jumped it off. So Kari drove it across town to the shop with her mother following her. While en route, the car died again, not far from the shop. So AAA came out, again, and jumped off the car. Kari made it to the shop and dropped off the car.

The next day we got a call from our mechanic saying that while they were trying to jump off the car, smoke started pouring from the radio. Fried. Crispy. At that point, nothing electronic in the car really worked. Windows, sunroof, A/C, and obviously, the radio.

The culprit: someone reversed jumped the car. And the finger pointing began. Was it AAA or someone at the mechanic’s? AAA clams they have jump boxes that you can put on backwards and the mechanic says his crew didn’t do it. At any rate, the car was jacked and no one was taking the blame. But once we explained to our mechanic that everything was working we when dropped it off at his shop, he tried to fix as much as he could. After replacing a few fuses and other parts, everything but the A/C and radio was working. At this point, the radio was beyond repair and it was trashed. When the mechanic hooked up the car to the computer, the error code indicated there was a problem with the computer and a dealer would have to look at it.

Enter Capital Eurocar.

Quite possibly the worst place to take your car. But our hands were tied since it had to go to a dealer. Honestly, I should have paid to have it towed to Valdosta or Panama City. Hindsight is 20/20 like that.

Ok, since this is going to be a huge post, I’m going to have to break it up. I’ve barely covered a third of this tale. Check back Monday for Part 2.

Have a great weekend everyone!

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