srwalter's Journal: Saab-less

The title sums it up. I am without my car. It is in Bowling Green, at the house of a friend of my cousin.

This weekend, while tooling about the city, the clutch cable broke. It was not without warning, but I didn't expect it to go on and snap. Fortunately I was pretty near my girlfriend's dorm at the time, and was able to drive the car back without the clutch. (Yes, I have mad skillz).

I enlisted my cousin to bring me back to Lexington on Sunday, for which I bought him dinner and paid for his gas. I now owe him another $90 for the two clutch cables he ordered through his work. I went ahead and got two so that I don't end up stranded again. Saab clutch cables have a tendency to fail soon after the first until the clutch is replaced. Hopefully that won't be required since it costs $250 for parts plus at least 6 hours of labor at $75/hr... you do the math.

But life isn't too bad. While I am without a car this week, it's not that often when I actually need it. This weekend my cousin will drive me back to Bowling Green and help me install the replacement clutch cable. Hopefully that goes smoothly.

12,000 miles on the car and this is the first problem I've had with it. And since it technically is still driveable, I won't consider it a major failure.