Re: hph
Posted by humanpotatohybrid On 2022/12/14 20:40:05
So I got it back from the shop yesterday, over $500 bill.
- mount 4 tires
- new battery ($45 install fee
should have just bought my own from a different place while it was in the shop and took 45 seconds to install it in the parking lot...)
- Adjust E-brake so it works (still need to test this)
- Check A/C system charge (I found out that it has no R134a in it... obviously I will not be using it in the winter, but the question is whether I will even want to use it in the summer!). $63 just for this...
But then in the 24h since I brought it home, a tire went flat on me! I bought the exact same size that was already on the car (235/75-15 radials) and those had held air for years... when I first bought this car, they were all at about 8 PSI. So IDK what the problem is, I called the shop and they were like "yeah bring it back tomorrow" except that it will be raining like crazy so I might bring it Friday. Except there is a forecast of snow for Friday... the shop is only like 8mi away but either situation will be a hassle. Honestly not very impressed by the apparent quality of the work of these guys, though the shop has 4.8⭐ on Google and claims to specialize in old cars.
The good news is that it drives better on the new tires, I'm sure to the surprise of absolutely no one that brand new tires would be better than c. 13 year old ones that had sat still for about 5 years straight.
Honestly I'm looking forward to getting this thing garaged at my uncle's over the winter so I can stop worrying about it and come back with some renewed enthusiasm in the comfortable summer months. I'm also looking to move over the winter to someplace with a garage, for obvious reasons, and also closer to my work, so I don't feel as burned out all the time from my long daily commute. Driving in moderate or heavy traffic for 1½h a day is not exactly great to decompress and driving so much drains the fun out of driving the Packard around!
Hence the first sentence of this paragraph; I'm hoping by springtime I will have been able to resolve all of these problems.
P.S. They are whitewalls, I just haven't washed the blue coating off yet. Also, purely by coincidence, the ultra thin whitewalls that I chose (due to being only around $100 each from Walmart) are very similar to some used on the Predictor.
Recent related threads:
- Fuel line fix:https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=26176&post_id=251574
Charging system confusion (turned out that the charging system seemed fine, just the battery was super dead). Will install a voltmeter soon:https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=251276
V8 Exhaust Manifold Thermal Valve:https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=251358
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- mount 4 tires
- new battery ($45 install fee
should have just bought my own from a different place while it was in the shop and took 45 seconds to install it in the parking lot...)- Adjust E-brake so it works (still need to test this)
- Check A/C system charge (I found out that it has no R134a in it... obviously I will not be using it in the winter, but the question is whether I will even want to use it in the summer!). $63 just for this...
But then in the 24h since I brought it home, a tire went flat on me! I bought the exact same size that was already on the car (235/75-15 radials) and those had held air for years... when I first bought this car, they were all at about 8 PSI. So IDK what the problem is, I called the shop and they were like "yeah bring it back tomorrow" except that it will be raining like crazy so I might bring it Friday. Except there is a forecast of snow for Friday... the shop is only like 8mi away but either situation will be a hassle. Honestly not very impressed by the apparent quality of the work of these guys, though the shop has 4.8⭐ on Google and claims to specialize in old cars.
The good news is that it drives better on the new tires, I'm sure to the surprise of absolutely no one that brand new tires would be better than c. 13 year old ones that had sat still for about 5 years straight.
Honestly I'm looking forward to getting this thing garaged at my uncle's over the winter so I can stop worrying about it and come back with some renewed enthusiasm in the comfortable summer months. I'm also looking to move over the winter to someplace with a garage, for obvious reasons, and also closer to my work, so I don't feel as burned out all the time from my long daily commute. Driving in moderate or heavy traffic for 1½h a day is not exactly great to decompress and driving so much drains the fun out of driving the Packard around!
Hence the first sentence of this paragraph; I'm hoping by springtime I will have been able to resolve all of these problems.P.S. They are whitewalls, I just haven't washed the blue coating off yet. Also, purely by coincidence, the ultra thin whitewalls that I chose (due to being only around $100 each from Walmart) are very similar to some used on the Predictor.
Recent related threads:
- Fuel line fix:https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=26176&post_id=251574
Charging system confusion (turned out that the charging system seemed fine, just the battery was super dead). Will install a voltmeter soon:https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=251276
V8 Exhaust Manifold Thermal Valve:https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=251358
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