More Gas Tank Issues...

Fisher and I got up this morning and took his car to Pep Boys to see what they would do about the gas tank leak. According to them, the gas tank is probably rusting from the inside out. Considering the age of Fisher's car, it's a possibility, but still a huge coincedence that it just started doing this after we got to Pep Boys yesterday. We certainly would have noticed it before since the smell permeated the back of the house after we'd been home for about half an hour last night. The mechanic said the tank had a "bubble" and when he rubbed his finger across it, it was leaking a small hole was revealed. Sounds to me like that is what finally opened up the tank. Fisher's car is parked outside and waiting to make a visit to the dealership when it's a little lower on gas. Since they will drain the tank, we don't want to lose too much of the gas in it. Pep Boys would not give a discount on the labor, and it just wasn't worth arguing the point with them. They're more expensive than Firestone, but we've decided to take the car to the dealership.

The other ironic thing is that my car also has issues with it's gas tank. Since April 06, it's been really slow to fill up because it thinks it's full when it's not. You can pump 50 cents of gas in it, and it pops off like it's full. We can't use the auto fill-up option because it constantly kicks off. You have to pump gas into it really slowly or just let it pump and kick off about 100 times before the tank is filled. Fisher, being an enterprising husband, discovered how to make it pump at the right speed so that it can auto fill. This method is the result of much experimentation on Fisher's part, since he's in charge of filling the car up because I have zero patience in dealing with it. The method is below:

In this Vanna-esque pose, Fisher is demonstrating how he turns the pump handle upside down and uses his keys to hold the handle in place. His keys are just the right thickness to lock the pump, and let the gas flow at just the right speed. He carries additional keys to help adjust the thickness, and it only works at Racetrack gas stations. Quite the experiment, huh? And, pump 12 works best at this particular Racetrack.

Meanwhile, my car is enjoying having the garage all to itself. I joked with Fisher yesterday that it was now the "Girl Car's Garage." So, he ran out to grab something at McD's yesterday and parked my car like this, allowing it to take over the whole garage! Funny thing was that I asked him if he parked my car in the middle, or did he park it crooked!