GLOCKer
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- April 30, 2018
- Messages
- 549
- Reaction score
- 128
- Location
- ATL Area
- City, State
- Marietta, GA
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1998 Explorer Limited
HAHAHA NO! I seem to have NO time!Very good. You've got AC again and it's cold, enjoy that. You are caring of your cars, that's great.
Let me lend you mine(swap) for a couple of months, and you can work out a few little bugs it has. I haven't had time to do anything really with mine, I just drive it and work it every day, approaching 224k miles now.
In fact, my lack of time is what dictated why this thing went to a shop. I have a mechanic friend who works for our county's fleet maintenance department; before I was promoted and put back in a patrol car, he used to get stuck fixing my unmarked police trucks (I had a Ranger, an Explorer, and a F150). He does some work on the side for VERY cheap, and helped me (basically he did the work and I was getting in the way) rebuild my suspension and rear-end ($100!). He also did the brakes and rotors on my Explorer ($40!). He offered to do the AC and said that it'd be $125 to $150 if it was worse case scenario and the compressor needed replaced (if I supplied the parts). Unfortunately, after my promotion in January, my hours just didn't line up to do this. So out of convience, I had to drop it at a local shop for the work. It sucked paying the extra money, and not helping him out by putting a couple of bucks in his pocket. Back when I was working 8 hour day shifts as a "carpet cop" (I was a training instructor at the time), it was convenient to wake up early on a Saturday and take a 1 hour drive up to his house to screw around with the Explorer.
I work crappy shift hours now, from roughly 4:45PM to 5:30AM. I sleep from 7:00AM until 2:00PM on a good day. Once I get up and moving, I might have an hour or two before my wife comes home from work. I do ANYTHING I can to maximize my time with my wife because with these work hours I never see her. And then around 10:00PM she goes to bed. So I have a very small window of time that I can actually get stuff done with, practically, on any day off. If our master bedroom wasn't next to the garage, I'd be in there all night working on projects, like the Explorer. Unfortunately there is just no way to do that without disturbing my wife and making the dogs bark. On top of that, I have a back-log of yard work at the house, I need to repair the fence in the back yard, pressure wash our cabin at the lake, do some rust repair and painting on our cabin, and do yard work at the cabin.
ARGHHHHHHH There is just no time!!!!
One thing though; I want mine to see the mileage you are seeing with yours. I'm just over 158,x.. miles after 1 year of ownership (I think it had 156,38X when I got it). That means I plan on hanging onto my Explorer for a LONG time unless something catastrophic happens (please no!) or I end up in something like a new Ford Ranger 4x4 (probably wont happen!).