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Car Repair Work

Penelope went in for some repair work today. She needed to have her control arm bushings replaced. Control arm bushings are little rubber hockey pucks that cost $20, but the labour to replace them is huge since the entire front suspension is pretty much taken apart to get to them. So after doing the replacement an alignment needs to be done as well.

$600 of work and just under $100 of taxes later she’s running great. I splurged a bit and did some fluid flushing and fuel system cleaning since this is an “off lease” car and it doesn’t look like the previous owner took care of her on the outside, so I can’t she that she’d be well cared for on the inside either. Better to do it now than find out when things go bad later.

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2 Responses to “Car Repair Work”

  1. darryl Says:
    August 19th, 2006 at 9:45 pm

    nesser,

    this is unrelated, but I thought you’d get a good chuckle from this link on how to write unmaintainable code..

    http://thc.segfault.net/root/phun/unmaintain.html

    :)

    Enjoy

  2. Nesser Says:
    August 23rd, 2006 at 8:33 pm

    I’ve actually read that before Wally but thanks for the link. A good refresher course on what not to do.

    While it’s not a goal in development I have found that as the deadline approaches the present the “maintainability” of code approaches zero.

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